Community Centered

Self-expression and working in community are the core of my life. Through my many years of working within maker spaces across the US, I’ve found that when you work in a collaborative space you create lasting bonds, learn and share an unimaginable amount of skills, and create projects that would otherwise be impossible. 

As an artist, I focus on large-scale metal and mixed-use sculptures for public placement particularly works that stem from a specific cultural or social heritage. My work is often a celebration of a place or people like my site-specific Spritius Mortem sculpture which was an assemblage of detritus found in the Northern Nevada desert or Baba Yaga House, an homage to my Lithuanian heritage. I enjoy finding that voice or spirit and translating it into a public sculpture for all to share.

Aside from creating large sculptures, I’m the founder of the Reno Punk Rock Flea Market, a two-day music and art festival celebrating D.I.Y culture with over 20 live bands, 100 local vendors and a whole lot of chaos. I also help facilitate a quarterly art zine called Generate! with my prolific non-binary illustrator, screen printer, comic author, Ray Daylami Frost.

I’m also a proud mom to two wild children, Elliott (8) and Cassidy (4) who I raise on my little 2-acre art farm in Lemmon Valley. Our desert farm includes ducks, guinea fowl, chickens and goats plus a few sculptures, several fruit trees and some overflowing raised beds. Our farm is an exercise in communal living with 4 adults, 2 kids, 1 very large cat and 2 mostly good doggos.

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