Featherpistol is a Performance Artist who has dedicated her life to following her creative passions. Her love of Nature, the mountain community and her then boyfriend/now husband prompted her move to Tahoe in 2017.
During her formative years, an education of studying art history at the University of Southern California with a focus in Art Conservation, followed by a Fulbright Fellowship in Florence, Italy at the Uffizi Gallery led to realising her zest for discovering and expressing the human condition. She later went on to study at Sotheby’s Institute of Art (Art Business) and became an Accredited Member of the International Socity of Appraisers (ISA AM). Adding to her high spirit for performance art is her fascination with sound/music/vibration and its healing properties. This led to an additional credential from the California Institute of Integral Studies in Sound, Voice and Music Healing.
"Feather" is an International Artist in Residence for Supperclub Amsterdam and has performed her art at dinner theater shows, circus shows, special events, Vegas nightclubs, casinos, fundraisers, festivals and theater productions. She is also a 40 year old lingerie model and loves combining her passion for fashion with inspired runway struts and photoshoots.
She is excited to be the creator of “Pole for the Globe”, a new initiative for raising money for earth charities by performing her signature performance art in nature. To date, this project has donated over $8,000.00 to charity. Join the movement at patreon.com/polefortheglobe
Early on, growing up in Minnesota, her family took lots of trips into the woods of the midwest for hunting and fishing expeditions. A crucial moment happened in her 16th year when she was reluctantly hunting with her father. She had always been a good shot with a gun, having taken Firearm Safety classes in 6th grade with “all the boys”, as she was an eternal tomboy growing up. But she didn’t actually want to shoot anything, let alone a bright eyed deer. She was close with her father and rarely stood up to him, but this November day in the woods she saw two beautiful doe walk across her line of sight. Reading “Catcher in the Rye” in her treestand, she looked at them with her heart racing, glanced at the gun, and thought “there’s no way I’m killing these animals”. She had to take a stance and tell her father “no”. Later, he said “honey, you don’t have to kill a deer, it’s a hard thing to do, a lot of people can’t do it or won’t do it for many reasons”. In this moment she felt closer than ever to her dad. Her father passed away in 2023 and to this day Featherpistol feels strongly that he is with her whenever she’s in the woods.
Now, she considers herself a middle aged activist artist. She stages pole art performances, photoshoots, and video shoots to express her critique of this plastic-riddled world. At 43, she has followed her fire for travel, art and knowledge and lived all over the world - and is now quite happily settled in Tahoe with her little family. Having resided in Los Angeles, Florence Italy, London and San Francisco, Featherpistol has spread her wings and explored what excites her and is now quite content to be living in the mountains.
When she performs, she blends her passion for music with her training in Tiger Crane Kung Fu, acrobatics, sensual dance, art history and runway modeling to create a unique style.
