After more than four decades of teaching, conducting research and writing about women’s history and women’s and gender studies, I have returned to my first love: making art. It is both humbling and exhilarating to embark on a new career at this stage. I am experimenting with multiple media and materials. My larger works are primarily acrylic on canvas but many include elements of collage. I also make smaller pieces that are primarily collage and assemblage. (My studio is filled with bins of materials—what my husband and kids call “junk”—waiting to be turned into art.)

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As a longtime feminist, I might be expected to produce work “with a message,” but in fact very few of my pieces turn out to be overtly political. If anything, I am rather retro, making paintings when many younger artists are focusing on installations, performance pieces, videos, and the like. Moreover, I eagerly embrace the mantle of abstract expressionism, a genre that has been largely superseded but one that I believe has by no means been exhausted, and which I am proud to carry on.

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I am currently a member of Women's Caucus for Art DC (WCADC) and the Maryland Federation of Art, and exhibit regularly at the MFA's Circle Gallery in Annapolis. My solo show, "Still Seeing My Way," was held at the Sandy Spring Museum, Sandy Spring, Maryland, from March 18 to April 16, 2026. From 2018 through 2023, I belonged to Touchstone Gallery in Washington, DC, where I exhibited in monthly group shows and had a solo exhibition, “Seeing My Way.” in April 2022. I have also shown pieces at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition and at other venues in Maryland, and my work is represented in a number of private collections.