My blog

My love for art began over the course of several years as a young girl, when my grandmother took me on regular visits to the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, the Berkeley Art Museum, and various galleries around the Bay Area. We spent many afternoons in her backyard, painting together with a blank canvas, some acrylic tubes and brushes, and thoughts of Monet on our minds.

Many years later, I spent a summer in Italy with my sister, studying art and painting again. Over the course of our time there, I realized that this subject was more than a passing interest; it was to be my life-long passion. And so upon returning to San Francisco after our trip, I picked up the phone and called Christie's Auction house and landed my first internship. My career had begun. I subsequently held positions as an art curator at my graduate school in Berkeley, where I studied art history and theology, then as an event coordinator at the San Francisco Museum of Art, then on the board of directors at Visual Aid, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping artists with HIV/AIDS and other illnesses, and finally worked for an art advisor managing private and corporate contemporary artcollections.

This stretch of years spent working and volunteering in San Francisco essentially came to an end when I moved across the country (not once, but twice) and started a family along the way. My passion remained with me, and I have found myself continuing to study and think about art, the ways in which art can lift the spirit, invoke a larger sense of ourselves and our place in the universe, and remind us that we are linked together by experiences greater than our individuality.

So in this blog, I hope to continue the journey and begin connecting with the art world in Washington, making observations and investigating the galleries and museums that sit in abundance here. I hope my posts will be fun, thought provoking, and insightful, that my comments reflect my interest in how we look at art, from a spiritual and intellectual standpoint, and what happens within that aesthetic experience, which both connects us and grounds us in our unique ideas and thoughts.

Thanks for reading.