Special Skills & Experience
TECHNICAL ABILITITES
Art Skills: Sewing, Weaving, Spinning, Quilting, Knitting, Crochet, Basketry, Dyeing, Painting, Screen Printing and Photography
Software Proficiency: Word, Photoshop, Excel, Blackboard, and Sitelink
Computer-aided Textile Print and Jacquard Design: Web Graphics, Weavepoint, NedGraphics and Fiberworks
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2019 Berry Jenkins’s production of Underground Railroad/Big Indie Production (a limited mini-series for Amazon) an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s book “The Underground Railroad,”: Stitcher
Sewing costumes and altering costumes for lead and supporting crew for 4 months during its production in Savannah, GA in the summer of 2019. Costume Designer: Caroline Eselin Costume Supervisor: Jennifer Day Young, Lead Production Designer: Joni M Huth.
2017-2019 Lulu and Coco Custom Interiors: Seamstress
Custom sewing for designers: curtains, pillows, valances, comforters, bed skirts and cushions.
2016-2018 OoLaLoom Handwoven: Weaver
Weaving custom handwoven fabric for baby wraps and fine garments.
2015-17 Savannah College of Art and Design: Professor of Foundation
Teaching student’s elements of principles of design and problem-solving process and research and development of their work through keeping a daily sketchbook and projects.
2006-17 Savannah College of Art and Design: Professor of Fibers/Fashion part-time
Teaching students sewing, weaving, and structuring techniques that enable students to apply principles of design to fabric from concept to final project.
CERTIFICATIONS
• Member of Motion Picture Studio Mechanics IATSE Local 491: Stitcher
• A: General Safety Training (IIPP)
• A2: Environmental Safety
• HP1/HP2: Harassment Prevention
• Saft Sets International Covid-19 (Level A)