Delivering My First Prints🪶

January 5, 2026

“Beginning again with clarity and courage”

This week I deliver my first set of prints to the Pendleton Center for the Arts, a quiet but meaningful milestone. It marks how far I’ve come, the fears I’ve stepped past, and the steady courage it takes to begin again.

Saying it out loud feels simple, but the step carries years of hesitation, rebuilding, rediscovering my voice, and learning to trust myself again.

There was a time when this felt impossible. Too big. Too exposed. Too vulnerable.

But here I am now, preparing work that is fully mine, packaged and signed, and walking it into a space that invited me in. A space that recognized value in what I create before I fully recognized it myself.

This is a milestone I’ve held quietly for a long time. A checkmark on a list I once wrote with trembling hands. Another fear stepped on and left behind.

I’m not the same person who hesitated months ago. I’m steadier now. More rooted. More willing to take up space.

As I prepare these prints, I can feel the shift. I’m not just making art. I’m stepping into the life I’ve been building toward all along.

Later this week, I’ll walk through those doors with my work in hand. Not as a visitor. Not as someone hoping to belong. But as an artist bringing her work into the world.

And that, for me, is everything.