I was born in Clarkston Washington in 1971, my parents then moved to Pasco Washington. I was raised with strong values and work ethic. At an early age I was encouraged to explore and interact with my surroundings. I am open to learning new and exciting things, which has given me broad and diverse interests as well as a rich work experience. I have worked as carpenter, construction laborer, assistant Pastry Chef, and a few others that have given me practical experience that I apply to my career as an artist.
The first serious interest I had in making art was during high school. That interest was taken to college where I received a BA in studio art. While working on my bachelors degree I chose not to focus on any one particular discipline, instead I studied art history, painting, printmaking and drawing. After a brief time of traveling abroad and working I returned to work towards an MFA in painting. The time spent working on my MFA was one of the most influential periods on my career as an artist. It helped me define my relation with the art making process, and has given me a point of departure.
I have been participating off and on in exhibitions since I was in high school. While working on my bachelors degree I was president of an organization that looked for exhibition space and exhibition opportunities for fellow college students. During that time I helped arrange and participate in several exhibitions and displays that were organized for charity fund raisers. While working on my MFA I was actively participating in school and local exhibition opportunities. Recently I have been exhibiting on both east and west coasts. Currently, I am preparing for upcoming solo exhibitions and I am working with the Smithsonian Institutes’s National Museum of the American Indian on the Move Project. The Move Project is moving a collection of close to 900,000 objects from the Research Branch in the Bronx New York to the Cultural Resource Center in Suitland Maryland.

I am not going to sit here and write to you on how -I am an artist or a designer like everybody else who would like to think they are the next Picasso or Versace and how they heal or change the world with art. Well I’m not.
I am a simple girl that come from a Honduran immigrant family. My family came to this country, like a lot of us who come to this country, with hopes for a better life. Knowing the way of life in the old country (Honduras) has given me a different perspective in life. Making the most of little. Their struggles and hard work were not thrown to the wind and forgotten.
Born in the summer of 1977 in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised on the east coast has made me who I am now. My parents and I lived in a small Cuban and latin community in a New Jersey town right across the Hudson River from New York City called West New York. Since I can remember I was a quiet kid who kept to myself with my imagination and drawing. I would observe everyone and everything, sometimes a little to much which would always get me into trouble. I would always be watching Sci Fi, action and horror movies or observing my sister practice her ballet or her and her friends dancing free style. I was the annoying little sister who would borrow my sisters “New Wave” clothes, music tapes of Depeche Mode, The Cure, Cover Girls, Lisa Lisa and the Clut Jam.
As I grew older the streets of my neighborhood are what I observed next. I watched my latino neighbors dance to the music of Celia Cruz to Rob Base and D.J. E-Z Rock. I watched the boys playing basketball and smoking weed. Old Cuban ladies conducting their annual parade of the Virgin Mary. As I got older I would sneak into house parties and watch all kids dance to M/A/R/R/S pump up the volume, Public Enemy and J. J.Fad . Later meeting my life time friends, we were one of the first to follow the “club kids” culture scene in New York City. My friends and I would dress in the most wildest costumes we could imagine and go dancing at the Limelight and Webster Hall, while listening to all our House music favorites. Then out of the blue my parents decided to pack up our bags in the family car and move to Florida. In the few years I lived down south I meet the most beautiful and loving people in my life which I hold close to my heart forever.
My memories of family and friends have pushed and influenced me to compose a future with my talent in drawing. I started my college education at Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, GA. I received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in the spring of 2000. In the spring of 2001 I moved back to New York City to expand my work experience.
I now work in the fashion industry with the top designers like Betsey Johnson and Anna Sui. I have found my nitch in designing for men’s and boy’s wear gaining as much experience and knowledge as I can. Future plans include acquiring an MBA and the further development of my drawing skills.