Electra received her Master's in Fine Arts in Studio Arts at George Washington University in May 2026. Her works have been shown in multiple galleries and museums in DC, Maryland, Virgina, and New Orleans, including the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, Tulane University, and Transformer Gallery. In 2026, she was voted Best Local Maker by Washington City Paper. She additionally owns and operates Electra Makes, an art and accessories brand with a comprehensive online presence and steady growth in both engagement and sales. Her products are sold in over 40 retail locations nationally and internationally, as well as her website, www.electramakes.com. Electra currently teaches Ceramics at Montgomery College.
Art has always been omnipresent in Electra’s life, often arriving in bursts of chaotic inspiration that occasionally pushed the bounds of acceptable childhood behavior. At age seven, she was famously caught by her mother, an avid antique collector, attempting to “repair” the inlay of an 18th-century Boulle table using a mallet and craft glue. (Spoiler: Elmer’s is not a recommended restoration material.) Though the technique was questionable, the gesture was, in its own way, heartfelt (and maybe even a little brilliant)
Today, Electra channels that same scrappy, heartfelt energy into a multidisciplinary practice that spans sculpture, painting, fiber, printmaking, and digital manipulation. She gravitates toward secondhand and “once-loved” materials, often sewing, mending, or reimagining objects that carry their own histories. Her work frequently combines tactile softness with structural rigidity, creating a physical and emotional tension that mirrors the messy process of feeling deeply.
Her studio is a patchwork of the sentimental and the strange: stuffed animals awaiting surgery, scraps of fabric with ambiguous past lives, ceramic fragments that didn’t survive the kiln but insist on being included anyway. There’s often a sense of play, but it’s underpinned by something stickier: grief, memory, the need to make sense of complicated feelings. Whether she’s screenprinting a series of tender oddities or building a soft sculpture with hidden weights inside, Electra’s work invites viewers to look closer, laugh a little, and maybe wince with recognition.