Grew up in Kenosha, WI...started studying photography in 1990...graduated from Columbia College Chicago in 2002... moved to New Orleans in 2005... married Travis in 2006... fixed up some houses together and established Rusty Pelican Art Gallery and Studios... then came 2 boys, Lykaios  and Lincoln... found an old school to fix and moved back to Wisconsin...

Primarily shoot with  film, large format 4 x 5 camera...Prints are digital on canvas or watercolor...Drawn to all things old, deteriorating and  decayed