About Becky

Becky was born and raised in Illinois and the Northwoods of Wisconsin. After graduating from high school, she spent two years traveling in Europe and working in a photography shop In Rockford, Illinois before enrolling at Arizona State University where she earned her BFA in painting and drawing. Becky moved to New York City in 1980, worked as a picture framer, and established her first studio in a basement on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. By 1981 she was working as a studio assistant in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and learning art restoration of colonial era wall murals.

A cross-country trek from New England brought Becky to Ellensburg, Washington where she earned her MFA in Painting at Central Washington University in 1984. Her graduate studies were followed by time-off for travel and volunteering with the Peace Corps in Tunisia before landing in Tacoma, Washington to teach at Pacific Lutheran University.

Tacoma became Becky’s home where she enjoyed a long career teaching students of all ages in a variety of schools and community residencies. She traveled and lived in China several times where she was deeply influenced by traditional Chinese painting. Since retiring from teaching in the Art Department at the University of Puget Sound, Becky teaches older adults at her studio in Tacoma.

Becky has won many awards for her work and exhibits regularly in both solo and group shows. Her work is in public collections such as Harborview Medical Center, The City of Tacoma’s Public Art Collection, and Pierce County Washinton Public Art Collection.