Acrylic and spray paint on exterior wall 
Baltimore, MD (2025) 
Painted for BRUSH Mural Festival with assistance from Jada McAliley

This mural highlights Baltimore poets past and present, including Lucille Clifton, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Lady Brion. There are dreamers, poets, agents of change in every era. To look forward, to speak of re-imagining or creating anew, let us draw on the foundations laid by those before us.

Acrylic on canvas 
10 x 10” (2025)

RISE founder, civil rights activist and astronaut Amanda Ngoc Nguyen became the first woman of Vietnamese and Southeast Asian heritage to ascend to the stars in 2025.

Acrylic and spray paint on wood
8 x 12’ (2019)

When she began rapping at age 16, Mare Advertencia Lirika was the first female MC in Oaxaca, Mexico. She is Zapoteca and draws on her experiences and cultural heritage as a native woman in her art and advocacy. Her lyrics engage complex threads of community, identity, and gender to comment on historic and institutionalized sexism and social injustice. This live painting was a temporary installation for Fine Lines Festival presented by Words Beats & Life at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.

Acrylic on canvas
36 x 36" (2020)
 

Wai Wai Nu works for human rights and dignity in light of the distinct vulnerability and catalytic strength of women. In doing so, she has founded two NGOs: Justice for Women, and Women Peace Network Arakan, which provide legal support and workshops in women’s empowerment, women’s rights, and peace-building to all—women, men, youth, and minorities. She is rendered life size, set amid native flora and natural geographic features of Myanmar. Wai Wai grew up in Buthidaung, her family’s ancestral home on the west bank of the Mayu River in Rakhine State. As a young law student, she and her family were imprisoned due to her father’s political organizing. She served seven years of her sentence, a period she has called a “University of Life”—from the stories of imprisoned women and girls she learned the failures of existing systems and resolved to change them. 

Upon her release in 2012, amid renewed violence against the Rohingya, she focused her efforts on supporting women, explaining, “if I empowered the women from our community and also women from the rest of the communities, put them together and made them friends and built trust, then [we could] aim to build peace in Rakhine State and the rest of Burma.”

Digital (2022)
 

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (b. September 24, 1825) was a poet, orator, abolitionist, and suffragist who became a household name in the nineteenth century. Frances was born to free African American parents in Baltimore, Maryland, but was orphaned at a young age. She was subsequently raised by her aunt and uncle, Henrietta and William Watkins. Her uncle was an abolitionist and medical practitioner who established the Watkins Academy for Negro Youth in 1820, where Frances studied until the age of thirteen. After entering the workforce as a nursemaid and seamstress, she wrote her first volume of poetry, Forest Leaves, by age twenty-one.

Gouache on paper
8 x 10” (2018)

Audry Funk is a singer and MC whose music features a fusion of reggae, hip-hop, soul, and funk. One of the first female rappers to begin her career in Puebla, Mexico, much of her work touches on themes of gender equity, unity, and empowerment of women. With fellow artists and activists Rebeca Lane (Guatemala) and Nakury (Costa Rica), Audry is part of the collective Somos Guerreras.

Gouache on paper, finished digitally.
3.75 x 5.5"
2021

Gouache on paper, finished digitally.
3.75 x 5.5"
2021

Collaboration with LAEC and MISS CHELOVE 
Acrylic and spray paint on brick  
Baltimore, MD (2019)

Photo by Maria Wolfe

Acrylic on canvas, finished digitally.
36 x 48" (2020)

Acrylic on canvas

4 x 15' (2021)