Acrylic on canvas. The memory of my childhood experiences in Lake Tahoe at my grandparents' home.

Mixed tapes were integral to life in the 80s. Friends would make tapes for your successes and heartbreaks. They were also very fragile, breaking and getting stuck, which meant untangling.

I truly loved the theme this year of nostalgia that inspired a more tactile approach to remembering a time when we drew by hand. To create something more three dimensional seemed most appropriate.

Our family would rent a house every year in Conroe and hang out on the lake...until my brothers and I watched Jaws together. It reminds me of those carefree summers.

A layered diagram of basic drafting, inspired by the memory of the layers of information one would develop with guidelines in non-photo blue pencil building up to the final drawing in ink on mylar.

Inspired by a 40th anniversary trip to Tuscany, this abstract work captures the warmth of Cortona's sunlit passageways. It is both a celebration of place and a reflection of enduring love and memory.

Assemblage of vintage fashion magazine images, silk soutache, Zero Landfill wood + remnant silks and beads represent the threads that weave our stories together. Includes matching brooch & boutonniere.

A tangle of tape, a rewind of memory. I sought to capture the messy beauty of analog nostalgia in this piece. It was a time when playlists meant patience and untangling was part of the soundtrack.

Acrylic on Canvas inspired by a trip to Florence Italy

From the top of one building, I photographed the view of other Houston Iconic buildings. I kept thinking, " so many tiny rooms to design". Houston is a beautiful concrete Jungle.

High School, listening to the top 40, finger on the record button, a cassette from a boyfriend or boom box at the beach makes me think of the simple, sweet times of growing up in the 80's.

Memories of an era surface like rays of light on a landscape of renewal and growth. The past gives life to the present.

While hiding out in San Antonio in the 1970s, Mi Tierra was my "go-to-middle-of-the-night-sober up-alibi-sanctuary" where a bowl of menudo and hot coffee would bring balance back to my world.

Mighty Mac - the nickname for the Mackinac Bridge in MI, connecting the upper & lower peninsula. To be nostalgic, make me reminisce of the beautiful Great Lakes.

A minimalist composition that evokes nostalgia through pure form and restraint. The piece draws inspiration from architectural lines-clean, geometric, and timeless-while celebrating the quiet beauty of design reduced to its essence. Each element is carefully placed, inviting viewers into a contemplative space where memory and structure intersect.

Created by the recently retired Exhibits Design Director at MFAH, this is a meditation on nostalgia. The work stages a quiet dialogue between light and darkness: luminous planes set against deep, velvety orbs. This juxtaposition recalls the passage of time while rooted in decades of design practice, the piece distills experience into elemental form, where simplicity becomes a vessel for reflection and reverie.

Inspired by the birth of my first child, this piece reflects fear giving way to joy, and the weight of uncertainty transformed into light and new life.

When the living room recliner was art....