My educational workshops and community practice are created with the intent to offer people an opportunity for creativity, reflection, and the cultivation of meaningful experiences. As an artist all the world is my medium, and crafting experience as much a part of my art practice as the creation of any sculpture or drawing. I first began to understand the power of crafting experience through arts as a volunteer instructor with Arts in Prison, working in the men’s maximum security unit at Lansing Correctional Facility. I saw how the opportunity created for those men to feel human and stimulated—to do something they and their families could be proud of—was more powerful than any object I or they could ever make. The act of expressing and creating itself was the artwork. It was there I learned the value of experience as a creation, something I could intentionally manifest for others.