Her father was an illustrator and engineer, and her great-grandmother from Washington, Arkansas, Louise Virginia Betts Pilkington, was a painter who graduated in 1909 from Lindenwood College for Women in St. Charles, Missouri with a degree in fine art, and whose work is now in the permanent collection of the Historic Arkansas Museum.
Most notably, in 1995, she designed, constructed, and painted sets and backdrops for the Los Colinas Film Studios and Dallas Theater productions of The Nutcracker, Phantom of the Opera, and Walker, Texas Ranger.
In 2015, she launched her national End Hate installation series,[3] a narrative body of work that looks at discrimination, gender issues, and social culture.
The anti-discrimination door series was installed twice on the steps of the Arkansas State Capitol and then at the base of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
[2] The End Hate series was inspired by the proposed Religious Freedom Restoration Act signed by Governor Asa Hutchinson in 2015, which opponents claim would have initially allowed private individuals to discriminate against members of the LGBTQ community by reference to their religious beliefs.