Do you love to see me talk out my face about my art? YOU’RE IN LUCK!! Debuting to day, a follow up to my Spring House Call with Amanda Krugliak, brialliant person and Director of the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities Gallery, wherein we discuss my show, Results […]
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Folks, I am wildly proud to be able to finally debut the virtual gallery for my show, Results or Roses, at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities Gallery. To get to work with Amanda Krugliak, whose work as a curator I have been in awe of for years, […]
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It’s back-to-school time, which means we’re all going to have to submit our reports on what we did this summer. Aside from garden stuff and learning different ways to use sourdough starter to make an array of breakfast baked goods — and watching LOTS of Netflix and listening to LOTS […]
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Taking a moment to celebrate the completion of a piece I started on New Year’s Day of this year. The buffalo hoop actually became its own separate thing, one of several pieces I completed concurrently with this one. It seems to be my way to start a lot of pieces […]
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In times of crisis, artists are often among those most affected. In addition to public health concerns, this is a challenging moment for many in our community as we deal with cancelled income and revenue streams. MOCAD has always been anchored by a rich spirit of community and mutual generosity, […]
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If you know me, you know that I hold a special kind of disdain for the specific cultural practice of weddings. I’m fine with people getting married to whomsoever they love, or wish to legally partner with, or quietly hate but use for financial stability, but I find it tremendously […]
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I am curious today about the continuum of experiences artists have with their objects—if objects are what you make. I am always prone to hyper-fiddly types of making processes, given any amount of time, space, and materials—which, for the first time in my life, I have in simultaneous abundance #blessed—and […]
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Part of my fascination with stickers is that the fact of what they various represent is a specific kind of evidence about the world. It is one thing, as an artist, to imagine up any number of objects or scenarios and project them into 2D reality; it is another to […]
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Something I often talk about, when I am invited to speak at colleges, is the value of creating a personal definition of success. I think this is so important for everyone, but especially people who work independently in creative fields, because the external forms of success are going to be […]
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I want to write something about organizational problems. I want to write something about Corrie Baldauf. I want to write something about life and art and how I’m learning to do those things. I want to write something because I feel like it, not because it is my job, or […]
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