I’m an art historian, writer, and curator of experiences based in mid-Missouri. I’m currently completing my B.A. in Art History at the University of Missouri, where my research focuses on women artists and representations of motherhood in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe. My honors thesis explores Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun’s 1789 Self-Portrait with Her Daughter Julie and the ways maternal identity becomes both performance and power in her art. Alongside this, I’ve presented undergraduate research on Donatello’s David and Judith and Holofernes, and co-authored curriculum through the National Humanities Center that uses art as a catalyst for civic dialogue.

My academic life runs parallel to a creative one. Before returning to school, I spent over a decade as a professional calligrapher and writer—work that taught me to look closely, tell stories through detail, and find poetry in precision. I now bring that same eye for nuance to my research, my teaching, and to the travel experiences I design. Whether I’m curating a group trip through the museums of Paris or leading an arts initiative here in Columbia, my goal is the same: to help others slow down, see deeply, and connect art to the rhythms of everyday life.