Hello Please
Born & raised in Vermont, involved in the art and music scene in San Francisco for the better part of 15 years, with gallery shows for my textile work, art residences, and band tours along the way.
I now live a somewhat divided existence between a 30s Berkeley cottage and a small family built cabin the woods. I work in Digital Marketing for non-profits. And I write this blog. I’ve been blogging, interacting in online communities, and generally over-sharing to the internet since 1995, so long that I pretty much forget that it’s not actually an extension of my being.
You can email me here, but only if you’re nice.
Below you’ll find a selection of print magazines, blogs, and press around various projects. From designing clothing and accessories, fronting a band or designing weddings, here’s a little history of what people have said about my work.
BUST: January 2011
Roxanne Carter wears a Verhext pink and gold brocade obi belt from Spring 2006.
BUST: January 2009
Winter Black Forest inspired styling, Looks feature.
Ready Made (as Dainty & Dirty): 2006
For this piece, I took traditional men’s accessories and reworked them. An old military jacket became a pouch to be slung on a belt, vintage scarves became a cravat, the jacket was turned inside out to reveal a printed lining, a ship plaque became a belt buckle…
Oneighty : Fall 2008
Online Magazines
ReadyMade: June 2011
Brides: January 2011
Modepass: February 2009
N.E.E.T. Magazine: March 2006 (as Dainty & Dirty)
Selected Blogs
Ruffled, 100 Layer Cake, Design*Sponge, Apartment Therapy, Bust Magazine Blog, Gala Darling
Guest Blog Posts
Hiss & Hearse, A Practical Wedding
Tussle wasn’t the only band to play that night. San Francisco’s The Cold War played its left wing brand of noise rock to the audience. Singer Tamera Ferro was all over the place, belting out the vocals while entertaining the crowd with her stage presence. The band played a very short set, with the acoustics at The Hotel Utah not exactly being cooperative to its type of music. Regardless, the band was very entertaining and may have prompted some people in attendance to start a Communist revolution.
Mesh Magazine, December 2005
Tamera Ferro sounds a little like Karen O. But the Cold War, fueled by political rage and fractured guitars, goes to a darker place than the Yeah Yeah Yeahs would ever dare.
flavorpill.net, October 2005
Tamera Ferro from The Cold War does her vocals up like a barked exorcism… twitchy and guided by wildness. Also including Allison Pheteplace and Tony Dryer, they have some similarities to Erase Errata-the dance beats, the occasionally barky vox– but they’re driven entirely by bass grind and prone to psychedelic noizexplorations, off-kilter drum freakouts, oscillating space-tweets, and echo-reverb warping their sharp edges…
Pitchfork, April 2005
3. The Cold War (and their hot dance moves), Hemlock Tavern
San Francisco Bay Guardian weekly top 5 list, April 2005
DON’T BE FOOLED by the fact that the members of the Cold War only play two instruments and the vocalist is all elbows and knees: this musical Luftwaffe pull off the volume of a much larger band. Or maybe a small militia.
San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 2004
