About Me
I moved from Portland to the Olympic Peninsula in 2023 to pursue a long-held dream to be in intimate connection with land. I juggled teaching at multiple colleges as a single parent for over 15 years and was healing from adrenal fatigue, struggling with artist block, and navigating the grief of becoming an empty nester when I arrived here. I sought to shift into a more supportive pace of life and find a way to combine my love for plants, dirt, the creative process, and spiritual and interpersonal growth into a self-sustaining and community-building resource.
In 2024 I began a 2 year journey through the Under the Eagles’ Wing Mentorship program with Shayne Case and the vibrant community the program fosters. The mentorship shepherded me through the transitions and helped me grow a deeper sense of trust in myself, connection to source, and greater rootedness in the natural world.
As I became more whole I found my creative focus shifted from large-scale paintings meant for gallery shows to storytelling and sharing the inspiration garnered from deep relationship with plants and the unseen world, focused on kindling interconnection with all living beings. Alongside this shift, I envisioned ways of teaching and engaging others that are collaborative and less restrictive than the academic realm. My love of nature, health and wellness, interest in animism, magical practices, and Tarot all inform the way I commune with others and the creative process. In my eyes, everything we create comes from source and is pure magic! I currently delight in giving my work away in the form of zines or custom plant medicines to my loved ones and community members. I am so curious to see where this new way of working will lead me.
Ravens Ridge
Ravens Ridge is the name that my partner, Timber V Wolfe, and myself gave to the land we are currently stewarding in what is now called Quilcene, WA near Dabob Bay on the Olympic Peninsula. This land was stolen from the S’klallam, Chemakum, Skokomish, Twana and other Coast Salish Nations during the mass displacement by white settlers in the 19th century. We honor the indigenous people who cared for this land as a beloved part of their family and we are committed to ongoing reparations to help account for the damage done by settler colonialism. Currently, we pay a land tax of 5% of any income that is generated by events or guests hosted on the land, which we pay to a native tribe or indigenous-led group or project. In addition, we commit to listen and learn from the land and to practice regenerative, rather than extractive practices to honor the deep wisdom of the native people who tended this land in a way that protected its wholeness and abundance for thousands of years. We continue to educate ourselves about the Land Back movement and how we can be in solidarity, while also honoring our own needs to make a living in this entrenched, capitalist system. We are new here and still learning how we can be in the greatest integrity with the land, its indigenous ancestors, and the system of personal ownership that still dominates at this time.
Ravens Ridge Mission
Ravens Ridge aspires to be a refuge for Queer and BIPOC activists, artists, dreamers and active allies. We believe in the power of rest and unstructured time in nature to repair and regenerate the spirit, so that we can continue to do the important work of re-envisioning our society and culture. We believe that self-care, which includes rest, play, and physical nourishment, is a human right and essential for all people to be whole and to realize their full potential. We endeavor to provide safe space in nature with others who aspire to social justice and anti-racist values in order to allow radical creative ideas and communities to flourish.