News Flash!

Spring 2022 Studio Update


First Fridays Art Walk is happening at Chomp every month. Over 30 local artists and vendors will be gathered, live music, cocktails and delicious food! Don't miss these events, Santa Fe! Follow my instagram for more info.


Art Bike is coming to life! Where will you see Vincent Van Gogh bike? Maybe Telluride Bluegrass Festival? Santa Fe's First Friday Art Walk? Railyard or Plaza concert series in Santa Fe?


Will my art adorn a table at Cafecito?

Unfortunately, not this time, but with over 50 artist submissions, the competition was fierce. The space looks amazing with the winning artist tables!


Table top submission of photos and Cactus Bloom mixed media art

Winter 2022 Studio Update

I designed this illustration for Santa Fe Community Art Build after meeting Grace Mayer, a local art teacher and fellow printmaker, at Recyle Santa Fe Art Festival 2022, and taking her advice to submit to the Art Build she was organizing in the coming months that was funded by the National Education Association. Further communication clued me in on what that phrase meant and provided rally slogans and the timeline for the project's art submissions, the community art event and the NEA Action at the Roundhouse. I know many of our Santa Fe educators and how hard they work for the youth here, dispite the lack of resources for decent pay and supplies, so I already knew why this social action was necessary (watch explanation by Milagro Middle School art teacher and NEA-Santa Fe president Grace Mayer while a student in a donkey costume colors my illustrated poster). New Mexico State Legislators were deciding on an educational spending bill that could significantly invest in students and educators and the NEA provided a grant to help give those affected an opportunity to have their voices heard. The rally at the New Mexico State Capital Building would be held during the January 2022 legistative session, during which the NEA would advocate for respect for teachers' time and effort, better wages for the actual time they put into classrooms and resources for the kids, using community created picket signs, banners and parachutes with the guidance and initiative of Art Build Workers. The Santa Fe Art Build was an inspiring event of skillfully planned collaborative art making with designs by local and national artists and open to students, families, educators and public volunteers. I colored New Mexico turquoise highlights on muslin screenprints, painted on protest banner slogans, met tired teachers and devoted artists, and got to check out the students' art studio and classroom (humble yet creatively energetic). All of the picket signs, parachute and banners created were taken down to our capital and used during the march and rally by public education advocates, educators, students and their families on January 23, 2022. I colored the poster I designed and carried it as a picket sign alongside the Art Build signs and many unique ones with personal interpretations of the education crisis (see picture). It was a powerful, inspiring and heartbreaking community event and resulted in Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signing off on pay raises for state educators and school staff. Art plus activism worked!

Fall 2021 Studio Update

Recycle Santa Fe Art Festival returns! The country's oldest and largest recycled art market invited me back as an artist vendor for 3 days celebrating the art of repurposing, reimagining and reducing waste. November 12, 13, 14, 2021 recycle artists will take over the Santa Fe Convention Center featuring an artist market and juried exhibit, make and take activity and student art exhibit. Watch event director, founder of Resourceful Santa Fe and Executive Director of New Mexico Recycling Coalition, Sarah Pierpont, explain our mission.

Summer 2021 Studio Update

I've been working for Heritage Inspirations Tours, as an electric bike tour guide, and had the opportunity to add topographic lettering to the photographic wall installation of Plaza Blanca, New Mexico, in our tour and bike shop in the Inn and Spa at the Loretto in downtown Santa Fe. I got inspired by my topographic maps of favorite New Mexico hikes and mimicked their abstract shapes and lines. Every person I take on tour meets me in this shop before we head out biking to explore historical, cultural and artistic sites around the City Different.

Photo credit: Heritage Inspirations Tours of Northern New Mexico

Large-scale topographic lettering project pops in gold on vinyl photograph in downtown Santa Fe, NM