ART & WRITING

Art Book Cart is a mobile art tool that allows participants to engage with books through hands-on arts and literacy projects, discussion questions, and extension activities. Commissioned by Springboard for the Arts and Great River Regional Libraries and operated by nonprofit, Crooked Zipper. 

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Puppet Lab is a program through Open Eye Figure Theatre that supports puppet artists in developing new skills. 

Perisphere is the movie blog for Trylon Cinema, a nonprofit movie theater in Minneapolis, MN. My contributions:

1917 and the Pitfalls of One-Shot and Long-Shot Filmmaking

Women in the Eyes of Men – Ozu and Kore-eda

Everyone Knows What to do with a Watermelon

During my Fergus Falls Community Arts Exchange through Springboard for the Arts, I partnered with the Otter Cove Children's Museum  to create a book about being an awesome kid citizen, kids' voting, and information to support caregivers on their journeys. 

Landsick is a crankie shadow puppet show about an uncle who has to leave home and a niece who helps him return. Performed at the Minneapolis Crankie Fest in 2023 

Ark 2.0 is a crankie about where the animals go when the world floods again. Performed in 2024.

 Learn about crankies here!

Blankets of Ice was an art installation featured at the 

Art Shanty Projects 2023 

Art Shanty Projects

Press - Star Tribune article

7 Not-to-miss Shanties

Our Year of Moon Pies is a creative non-fiction article published in Taproot Magazine Issue 52::SAVOR

in August, 2022. Taproot

In natural places, I create and photograph nature art as an ode to the wonderful colors of nature. 

No digital alteration is used. 

Contact me to schedule gallery showings of this ongoing collection.

Mail Love was a fundraiser in 2020 created to support student learning of the letter writing process. Money raised from t-shirt sales purchased stamps and funded the creation of letter writing learning materials.

Fundraiser Site

The Read design was created to encourage young people to read more. The design was used for a very popular sticker and temporary tattoo.  Also created in Spanish. Contact me to request custom designs for stickers and temporary tattoos. 

Are You a Robot/Monster was created in 2014 as part of the Art Shanty Projects and was also featured at 

Northern Spark 2014

Art Shanty Projects

Northern Lights - Northern Spark

Home is... was a placemaking activity done in partnership with Project for Pride in Living and Springboard for the Arts in 2014 where young people were asked about their ideas of what 

home means to them, 

resoundingly they said "LOVE"

Springboard for the Arts

Created for St. Paul Open Streets University Ave in 2013, Sharing String, Sharing Stories was an opportunity for participants to share their string figure knowledge, cultures, and histories and try their hands 

on our 6' tall moving 

string figure machine.

Created for Northern Spark 2013, Community Clothesline was a community interactive art project encouraging the sharing and swapping of resources and knowledge, mending, sustainability, and fun.

Northern Lights - Northern Spark

City Portraits is a photography collection created to put portrait subjects in context in their houses and cities. Exhibited previously. 

Contact me to schedule gallery showings of this ongoing collection or to request custom pieces.

What Do You Think Will Kill You? was an interactive art project for an exhibition called Art Feeds Us at Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis. Participants added to the artwork by writing on paper marigold flowers the thing they think will lead to or cause their deaths. Part of a Dias de Los Muertos celebration.

After Sunset Shadow Troupe performed shadow puppet shows in many Minneapolis Parks in 2011, made possible by support of the MN Arts Board Multicultural Partnership Artist Grant. 

MN State Arts Board

Bless Your Hands is a textile mixed-media collection created to show the ways we create textiles with our hands and the implications of creation. Exhibited at the Textile Center and other locations.

Textile Center

Previous youth 3D art residencies include duct tape creations, textile printing, seed art, paper art, friendship bracelets, bug houses, and shadow puppets with preschool to grade 12. Contact me to schedule 

youth art residencies.

Previous youth digital art residencies include book marks, stickers, t-shirts, and posters with preschool to 

grade 12. Contact me to schedule 

youth art residencies.