71:(MIAD) as a Professor of Sculpture. She received the 2010 Woman of Influence Award from the Business Journal of Greater Milwaukee where she was honored in the Innovation category as having her collaborative, selfless yet bold vision seen throughout the city's and state's landscapes, buildings, classrooms, museums, and performance venues. Since then her contributions to MIAD have included an adapted foundry pulley system that has been incorporated to many outside foundries since its implementation, setting up Public Art classes in collaboration with Milwaukee communities and colleges, and helping develop the New Studio Practice major implemented in 2015. She received Professor Emeritus from MIAD in 2017.
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Madison, Wisconsin and removed in 2015. After her 55 granite and bronze forms fell under much blame for unwanted behavior, the arts board decided to remove 11 stones. She held an event she named
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of place, perception and movement continue to permeate her installations, drawings and interdisciplinary collaborations shown in New York, Los
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