She grew up in Midland, Michigan and moved to Ypsilanti in 2008 to attend EMU.                            
This is her tenth year teaching art at Ann Arbor Open and her 13th year as an art educator.
She has two cats (Cosmo and Wally) and two Pomskies named Miika and Keeko.
Deb likes sushi, candles, riding her bike, thrifting for treasures, and home improvement projects.
Artwork shown below was created with a combination of watercolor paint and colored pencil on  wood.
Making art on wood, as opposed to blank paper, represents that blank canvases (in real life) do not exist.
Her art represents an ongoing practice of accepting existing realities and pulling from the details to inspire
something even more beautiful,.  An abstracted moment of cooperation, contrast, and time.