She was educated at Carleton College, University of Perugia, Italy, University of Grenoble France, Cleveland Institute of Art and Case Western Reserve University. She was a member of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in the 1960s. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York city, she worked for the Disabled Museum Visitors services, acted as a consultant for the National Endowment for the Arts. She taught ceramic arts in Sumter, South Carolina, and later at the Brooklyn Museum Art School in New York. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.
