She grew up in Midland, Michigan and moved to Ypsilanti in 2008 to attend EMU.                            
This is her eighth year teaching art at Ann Arbor Open and her 11th year as an art educator.
She has two cats named Cosmo and Wally and two Pomsky dogs names Miika and Keeko.
Deb likes sushi, candles, riding her bike, thrifting for treasures, and making her house feel like home.
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.
How do we respond to challenges? How do we perceive nature? How do we relate to history, and to time?
Her art represents an ongoing practice of accepting existing realities while growing from them something beautiful,
new, and with opportunity for further growth. An abstracted moment of contrast, awakening, fragility, and time.