Formal

Studied at Stephens College, Columbia, MO; University of California, Berkeley; San Francisco State University; and San Francisco Art Institute.
Major: Humanities. Hold State of California Teaching Credential.

Special

Performance: George Coates, Bread and Puppet Theatre: Ruth Zaporah: Johnanna Haigood/Zacco Theatre; International Clown Theatre Festival; Butoh/Theatre of Yugen; Rinde Eckert.
Dance: Katherine Quitzo; Saida Gerraird; Harriet Ann Gray; Anna halprin; Center for World Music.
Ceramics: Ron Nagel.
Metal Sculpture: Mel Henderson.
Fresco: Kala Institute.
Installation: John Woodall.

Ongoing

1992-Present
Masques et Musiques -Performance Series for collaborations between visual artists and musicians.
1987-Present
Buddha's Birthday Pageant - Green Gulch Zen Center. Collaboration with Norman Fisher. An AmericanBuddist ritual.
1995-Present
Burning Man -Created masks and animal totems. Collaborated to create megalithic sculptures.
1998-Present
Berkeley Community Chorus Orchestra (BCCO)-Sing for chorus orchestra.

2000
Personna Grata - Trilogy of films: Food Is My First Language: Wok-n-Progress; Anatomy of a Spring Roll; Pins and Noodles. Created masks and performed.
Nightletter Theatre -The Waiting Room - Created masks.
Nightletter Theatre - Hungry Tree - Consultant for the project.
Cal Shakespear Festival - Shakespear and Beyond - Art installation. Taming of the Shrew - Created masks.

1999
Butoh Dance - Oshidori. Created the masks, costumes, wrote and performed the piece.

1998
Ritual of the Wind - Outdoor Dance Experience; Emeryville - Various performances.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center - Vesak - Created masks.

1997
Harupin-Ha Butoh Company - Yerba Buena Gardens, SF. John Cage 16 Dances. Performed to musics by San Francisco Contemporary Music Players.

1996
Mother Sun and Her People- Cherokee myth created and performed at Festival of the Lake in Oakland. Community performers developed masks with students of MOCA-Oakland Museum of Children's Arts.

1993-1994
Bill Graham Presents New Orleans Festival - Tour ('93-'94) of U.S.
Berkeley Art Center - Performance/Installation of original piece: Pythagon's Ghost & I.
Footloose Studios - San Francisco Series.
Annie's Hall - Collaboration with Hiroko Tamari, Annie Wildwood, Romona Moon.
Sight and Insight Gallery - With Diano Marto. Linneage Canto IX.

1987-1992
Antenna Theatre - Marina, SF & Bay Model, Sausalito. Artist for and lead performer in All You Can Eat. Performer, guide for Radio Interference.
West Coast Playwrites - Marin Repertory Theatre. Alma Becker's gang of women. Group performance.
Subject to Flooding - Five women's original monologues directed by Nina Wise.
Great Mother, Protect Us - Sausalito. Alter for houseboat protection.

1982-1986
Women Arts - Sausalito. Performance art piece.
Russia - by Antenna. Female lead for performance in New York, San Francisco, and Marin.
Trick Dog Theatre - San Francisco Performer and art pieces in A Dog's Disgust and Give Way.
Old Man Coyote Theatre Presents the Big Game - Writer, director, producer, and set design. Performances in Sausalito, Santa Cruz, and Los Angeles.
Marin Community Playhouse - Set design for Scarlotte Harlot and Juggling and Other Secrets.
Old Man Coyote Has Always Existed - Writer, director, set design. Performed at Dunphy Park, Sausalito.
Return to the Mountain - With Anna Halprin and the Tamalpais Institute. Collaborated with performers to create their own huge spirit masks.
The Sleeping Lady Awakes - Writer, director, set design. Performed at Dunphy Park, Sausalito.
Antenna Theatre - Female lead in Vacuum for East Coast Tour.

Ongoing-
Christmas Revels - large puppet and mask maker.
Berkeley Arts Festival - various mask exhibitions.
ProArts - Oakland.
Regional Canvas: A survey of painting and mixed medial. 1996.
New Visions: Introduction 99. Mask exhibition.

2000
Alice Arts Center - Oakland. Art Exhibition Series - Chromatic Illumination. Mask exhibition.
Dance Palace Pt. Reyes - Mask exhibition.

1999
Berkeley Art Center - Stay Tuned - Art documenting the Pacifica/KPFA struggle of 1999.

1994
Artisans Gallery - Mill Valley. Celebration of Masks and Feasts. Group show. Featured artist and co-curator.
San Jose Taiko Dojo - Large characters.

1992-1993
Theatre Artaud - Masks for Surrender by Lauren Elder.
Museo ItaloAmericano - Carnevale Veneziano.
Asian American Theatre - Giant Masks for PBC Film Anatomy of an Egg Roll.

1990-1992
Nightletter Theatre - Live Oak Park, Berkeley. Masks for Private Eye.
Theatre of Yugen - Pieces for Inugami.
Frichtingstein Institute - Amsterdam. Pieces for Fasnacht Revisited.
Cyber Arts International - Los Angeles. Group show.
Soon Three Theatre - Cowell Theatre. Pieces.
Welcome to the Millenium - Art from KPFA Struggle

1985-1989
Macy's and Saks Fifth Avenue - New York and San Francisco. Masks for designer evening gowns.
Cartier Perfume - Promotional pieces.
Green Gulch Zen Center - Workshop and pieces.
Universal Studios - Los Angeles. Masks for Murder She Wrote series.

Sight and Insight - Mixed Mentors Workshops. 2000
Making the Millennium - Oakland students art in public places at Rancho Peralta Park. 2000
300 Fest - SF 300 Logical Society. 1998.
Bill Graham Presents New Orleans Festival - Mask workshops with tour ('93-'94) of U.S.
Green Gulch Zen Center - Mask workshop. 1993.
Comtemporary Crafts Market - Workshops. 1987-1993.
Marin County Schools - Workshops. 1986-1993.
Marin Civic Center - Imagination Celebration. Taught 1500 children mask making. Masks used in the Olympic Arts Festival. 1984.