My Practice & Areas of Work

My work begins with a question I carry into the studio, the classroom, and the library equally: What does it mean to bear faithful witness to the spiritual lives of Black women and girls?

I am a visual artist, art educator, and theologian-in-formation. These are not separate vocations — they are three expressions of the same calling. I make art to see clearly. I teach to help others trust what they see. I study theology to understand why it matters that we look at all.

My Foundation

I hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communications, Art & Design, and a Master of Public Administration. My professional background is in healthcare marketing and communications — work that trained me to ask who is centered in a system, who is overlooked, and how information shapes access and outcomes. That same systems lens now informs how I read Scripture, how I design art education experiences, and how I think about the church as a forming institution.

For me, seminary is not a departure from art or from professional life. It is a deepening of the same question I have always been asking.

What I Make & Study

Visual Art Rooted in Womanist Thought My studio practice draws from womanist theology and the visual traditions of Black Christianity. I make work centered on the interior lives of Black women and girls — their bodies, their faith, their dignity, their refusal to be made small. Image-making, for me, is a theological act.

Art Education as Formation I teach art not primarily as technique but as a practice of formation — of learning to see, to choose, to compose, and in doing so, to develop a more honest and rooted sense of self. My educational framework is shaped by womanist thought and liberation pedagogy, and it is built specifically for Black girls and women in church and community settings.

Womanist Theology & Biblical Interpretation I engage Scripture with historical rigor and womanist intentionality — attending to whose voices have been centered and whose have been marginalized. My primary conversation partners include Delores Williams, Renita Weems, Katie Geneva Cannon, and Wil Gafney.

Black Church Traditions & Liberation Theology The Black church has been sanctuary, resistance, and formation space. I study it with both deep love and honest critique — particularly where it has and has not protected the spiritual and emotional lives of women and girls.

Spiritual Formation & Practical Theology My theological focus is practical — faith that forms identity, protects dignity, and cultivates depth. I study prayer, discipleship, embodiment, and the communal practices that shape who we become, with particular attention to how those practices land differently in the bodies and lives of Black women and girls.

Where I Am Headed

I am building toward a practice — as artist, educator, and minister — that does three things:

Produces visual work that dignifies and theologizes the lives of Black women and girls. Develops art education frameworks rooted in womanist formation that can be used in churches, schools, and community spaces. Contributes to practical theology that is not distant from the people it describes — that is, instead, accountable to them.

I am building the structures I once needed. Not as monument, but as offering — spaces where art is rigorous, faith is liberating, and Black girls are seen as the theological thinkers they already are.