Bio & Curriculum Vitae

I am a visual artist, theologian and certified spiritual director who is passionate about holding space for robust, hospitable dialogue between these disciplines. Through theological scholarship and teaching as well as spiritual direction and art, I am devoted to companioning with individuals on their own journey of becoming.

The Christian mystic and philosopher, Simone Weil, said “attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” To care for another soul with hospitality and gentleness, to truly see and listen to their life in the loving presence of God, is indeed the art of all arts (to paraphrase Gregory the Great). My philosophy of creative care and spiritual companioning is rooted in this attentive dignifying, generous welcoming and building of a self.

I enjoy helping creatives listen to, articulate and navigate their curiosities and ideas, as well as explore what visual components and processes best bring their concepts to life. It is a privilege to nurture, even through the smallest act of service, an artist’s inner life as well as their technical prowess.

A creative partnering with God to live and build a life is the greatest artistic act. We take our seat at a long banquet table, a diverse community, seeking together to live into the knowledge and love of God.

Education

2025, MFA Visual Art, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA

2018, MA Spiritual Formation and Soul Care, Talbot Seminary, La Mirada, CA

2011, Bachelor of Arts in History, California State University Fullerton, CA

Publications & Presentations

November 2019, Hildebrand Project’s Aesthetics Colloquium, New York

Paper presentation on Dietrich von Hildebrand’s philosophy of sensible beauty of the second power, its quasi-sacramental nature and the phenomenology of beauty, in dialogue with C.S. Lewis’ reflections on beauty in Till We Have Faces and The Weight of Glory.

July 2025, MFA Thesis Dissertation Defense and Exhibition Presentation

“I Am Here: Visual Epiphanies of A Strange and Generous Kindness”

May 2018, MA Thesis Dissertation Defense and Presentation

“Christ as the Archetype of Beauty: The Artist’s Call into Christ’s Beatific Life and Self-Giving Love”

2012, Paper Publication, Cal State Fullerton’s Welebaethan Journal of History

“The ‘Inescapable Evils’ of Landscapes and the State: Orientalism, Geography and the Italian Question in Carlo Levi’s Christ Stopped at Eboli”

Exhibitions

July 2025, “A Strange and Generous Kindness”

MFA Thesis Solo Exhibition, Duke Gallery, Azusa Pacific University, CA

July 2024, “Sacred Living”

Group Exhibition, Sasse Museum, Pomona, CA

2011 – 2012, “The Shadows of Decent Men: The Line Between Nobility and Depravity in the Pacific Campaign”

BA Honors Program Thesis Solo Exhibition, Cal State Fullerton Library