Toba Series

Toba’: Selected Works

Toba’ (to become) (2024–2027, in development)

A major body of work in sculpture, masks, pottery, and mixed media painting exploring the artist’s process of reconnecting with her Choctaw heritage.

Using Oklahoma clay and materials sourced from both Choctaw Nation and Northern California, the project integrates traditional ceramic practices with contemporary forms. The work centers on personal and ancestral memory, emphasizing transformation, identity, and the reactivation of cultural knowledge through material practice.

Ohoyo Osh Chishba

14", pit fired ceramic, terra sigillata. 2026.

One of the Choctaw stories tells of a mysterious woman who appeared to two hunters one night. She was on a sacred mound. She asked for food, and the hunters gave her the hawk they had caught. To thank them, she told them to return next summer. When they did, there was corn growing.

This piece is intended to mimic the seed vessels created to store seeds for the next harvest. It is shaped like a corn kernel, and when I put her in the pit fire, I wrapped her in corn husks, and fillled the interior with corn husks.

Currently showing through September at 7 Stars Gallery in Nevada City. If interested, you can contact me directly here.

SOLD

Removal…Relocation

A trail of tears to a new home, for my Grandmother Ida Mae. 24", ceramic, hand dyed cotton, moss agates, aventurine, iron ons. 2026. Won best 3D/Sculpture, Wild and Scenic Film Festival 2026.

Currently at Blue Line Arts gallery in Roseville, CA, through August 7, 2026.

Showing at 7 Stars Gallery in Nevada City, August 8 through September 2026.