My nearly 40 years in Atlanta have been about making connections and creating a life for myself after college, when I struggled with my mental health. Creating a social fabric takes time. So does feeling at home. Quilting has helped me make friends and even meet distant relatives here. In the early 1990s, when I joined St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in northeast Atlanta, members invited me to their quilting circle, and the Episcopalian celebration of art, beauty and creativity deepens my understanding of God. For many years I have organized St Bart's artists to interpret the Stations of the Cross and taught quilting at the Camp Mikell Folk School. 

As a professional writer and writing coach in Decatur, I love quilts that tell stories and provoke new thinking. My quilting story began with the 1976 Bicentennial and earning the sewing scout badge. My later teachers/mentors include Gwen Marston, Kaffe Fassett, Jen Kingwell, Rayna Gillman and the Gee's Bend quilters. I joined Atlanta Intown Quilters and more recently the Brown Sugar Stitchers. I participated in the 1996 Olympic Quilt Project at the Atlanta History Center and my quilts have won ribbons at the East Cobb Quilt Show and Atlanta Quilt Festival. I was selected to be a participating artist in Confluence 2022, a statewide Georgia event exploring the relationship between the environment and the arts, and arts and activism.

Houses are a central image in my work and these relate to political and personal themes of security and fearlessness. You'll see found objects from Atlanta streets in many of my quilts as a legacy of my dear grandma Marian Langdon, a scrap metal dealer. Atlanta always inspires me because of its scars and energy. Thank you for your interest in my art.