Artivism for Positive Change

About the Artist

Based in Scotts Valley, California, with studio space at Vintage Pick Art and Studio. Member of San Francisco Women Artists.

I'm a multidisciplinary artist, mother of three, and licensed real estate agent who spent 20 years guiding people through life transitions while making art "on the side." But art was never the side project. It was the thread that held everything else together.

I studied creative writing at Cal State Long Beach, screenwriting at UCLA, and landscape design at Cabrillo College, each one teaching me a different way to shape a story, a space, or a self. For nine years I worked as a costume designer at Scotts Valley High School, where I learned how a single garment can transform the way someone stands in a room. That lesson followed me into repurposed fashion: vintage scarves remade into new pieces, forgotten textiles given a second chapter, pre-loved clothing reimagined through All Things Genevieve. During COVID, that same instinct for transformation led me to paint over 50 Frida Kahlo works, an obsession with a woman who turned her own pain into unmistakable beauty.

Across collage, textile, repurposed fashion, and mixed media, my work keeps returning to one idea: nothing has to stay only what it was. A scarf can become a dress. A photograph can become a painting. A life can be remade more than once. Beauty and self-discovery don't ask for approval, they ask for attention.

I'm a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of art, healing, and self-discovery. My practice asks: can making something new out of what's been discarded change how we see ourselves?

Core Work:

• Healing Dolls: Fabric dolls created as a form of care, each one holding a story the way a person sometimes can't.
• Repurposed Fashion: "All Things Genevieve" transforms vintage textiles and pre-loved clothing into wearable art.
• Mixed Media & Collage: Painting, textile, and sculptural light work built from materials others have set aside.
• Youth Theater: Costume design and mentorship empowering young people through creative expression.

Philosophy: My practice is rooted in transformation. I believe nothing has to stay only what it was, a scarf can become a dress, a doll can become a witness, a life can be remade more than once. I work across media because self-discovery requires flexibility, and beauty rarely follows a straight line.

Recognition: Member of San Francisco Women Artists | 20+ years as a transition guide supporting people through life's biggest changes

Art is how I find myself, again and again. It's how I say: this isn't finished, it's becoming.

My People Riley (DJ, music collaborator), Stryker (UCSC grad, Game designer), Monte (high school baseball catcher, still dreaming big). These three taught me what it means to witness someone become themselves.

The Work Painting, sewing vintage textiles into new life, writing poetry, making healing dolls for people the world tried to erase. Art that refuses to stay quiet.

The Materials Watercolor that bleeds. Vintage fabrics with stories sewn in. Collage—making whole from broken pieces. Frida's flower crowns. Anything I can transform.

The Simple Joys Thrift stores. Strong coffee. Gardens with flowers. My studio at Vintage Pick Art and Studio. Riley's music. Stryker's phone calls. Monte's baseball games. The moment a painting tells me it's done.

The Artists Who Taught Me Frida Kahlo, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Timothy Young, Anna Drew, Leah Campbell Badertscher.

The Truth I love the fight. I love the making. I love finally knowing who I am through it.