2026
ON EXHIBIT
Shadows & Light, at The Depot Gallery, October 17 – November 7, 2026.
Halflife, cyanotype on cotton, 2026.
In Progress:
Backstage, Cosmic Tumblers, 2026. .
Distance, Time & Mass, 2026.
Tower, Cosmic Tumblers, after af Klint and Montessori, recycled plastic felt, 2026.
Golden Rainbow, Cosmic Tumblers, 2026.
Hoping to scan some work again soon, at UNR. Some of the cardboard maquettes - or “tumblers” - Golden Rainbow, as one example, are so large I don’t know how I’m going to get them out of the space they currently occupy (the laundry room).
NEW WORK: DICE
Zero & One, Product and Pattern after Prompt, acrylic on wood, 2026.
2025
Writing:
A BIGGER HACK AT THE DAWN OF AI
An Editorial
The Baptistry, Florence, through the eyes of Brunelleschi & Hockney, 2019.
Arts-Based:
Quilt Top Kite, Kiva Beach, 2025.
Quilt SHOW
My love and appreciation for quilts began in childhood; my study of them, in college - taking surface design courses at VCU. In my view, quilts are an art form akin to sculpture and painting, and worthy of the same critical acclaim.
Below is a gallery of American quilts photographed along the cardinal directions of Lake Tahoe and its output, the Truckee River.
They are all hand pieced, made prior to 1955, with the exception of one - showcasing the United States in warm tones (machine pieced, 2000s).
I Failed to display these last summer, in a local Quilt Show & BEE. i hope I get the chance to in the future.
For more of my writing on quilts, please see my article about the renown quilter, Chawne Kimber, for Modern Quilt Guild online and former blog, BLOCK: The Making and Meaning and Metaphor of Quilts and Quilt Culture, featuring over 200 posts on the subject.
2024
Happy to Announce:
Now Managing Reno’s much beloved local plant shop and boutique - Sierra Water! The elevated space is known for its wonderful atmosphere of plants, local and regional art and exceptional flowers. With a community of creatives behind the scenes, who find joy and take pride in providing exceptional service, it is a great gig.
Below, a few shots - for the socials.
New Work: Photography
Selfie, with a Singularity, 2024.
Singularity, 2024.
2023-2024
ARTS-BASED TEACHING:
Wire Portraits, 9-12th grade. Alpine Academy.
Those of you who know me, know how much I enjoy creative instructional time with kids/youth, and working with high school students (9th-12th grade) is particularly rewarding.
Below is a PORTFOLIO from course instruction in:
Art Foundations, 2D Mixed Media, 3D Spatial Dynamics & Intro to Design.
2023
New Work: Sculpture
MindSET stacking towers, paper rendition (left). Dark Matter, 2023.
In progress - Posting, 2022 -
Dark Matter, 2023.
2022
New Work: 4D - AUGMENTED REAITY
Playing again with “Cosmic Tumblers” - finally in augmented reality!
My thanks to the UNR staff and students at the DeLaMare Library for their assistance scanning some of the 3D sculptures and prototypes for the MindSET project.
Up until now this project had largely been a K-12 curriculum for teaching STEAM in innovative ways - using the Fibonacci sequence / Golden Ratio. Now, the larger scope of the project is growing too.
The sequence/ratio itself is the point of departure for the bulk of my current work. I’m looking forward to “anchoring” pieces soon; dropping them in AR, in specific locations for viewing in real-time and space.
2022
HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE:
MINDSETS
@PATAGONIA’S EMPLOYEE CRAFT FAIR ⛰⛺⛅
Enjoyed the beautiful winter day at Patagonia’s Employee Craft Fair! I popped-up as a little shop, selling the MINDSETS early childhood curricula, in felt & wood.
2021
On Exhibit: prints w/ overlays in AR
On exhibit, The Bulkhead, in a Lucas Set, giclée print with overlays in augmented reality - Sierra Arts Foundation, SAF Gallery, 12x12, 2021.
2021
Arts-based Teaching: MINDSETS
MINDSETS: Art is Learning, by Design, an arts-based curriculum with stacking integrated components across disciplines, levels PreK-12th grade.
MINDSETS are learning materials for integrated STEAM teaching and instruction. Age 4+.
2021
Arts-based TEACHING - EARLY CHILDHOOD:
When not making art or teaching elsewhere, you can also find me at Patagonia’s Truckee River Child Development Center, seasonally substituting and practicing the REI philosophy with children (from infancy to age 6). Let the wild rumpus go on!
2021
NEW WORK: SCULPTURE
1,1,2,3,5, wood, 2021.
One & Zero, cyanotype on paper, 2021.
Contrasts, cyanotype on paper, 2021.
Superposition, cyanotype on paper, 2021.
Homage to the Cube, cyanotype on cotton, 2019.
2020
ARTS-BASED TEACHING
Three kids at home remote learning resulted in accelerated learning and teaching again, for me too.
Fun Fridays, 3rd grade STEM “playdates,” Lockdown, 2020.
Fun Fridays, 3rd grade STEM playdate. Lockdown, 2020.
2019
NEW WORK: PHOTOGRAPHY
Four Florentine Camera Obscura, Florence, Italy, 2019.
This collage was created as I walked for miles in Florence, locating over 60 paintings representing the same subject - The Annunciation; a fascination of mine, as I aim to demonstrate that many of the depictions are visual metaphors, or even allegory, for the phenomena produced via a camera obscura (projected, moving images when light passes through a small opening into a darker space).
When not in search of these paintings, I spent much of my remaining time re-enacting experiments with simple mirrors. Including the famous experiment on linear perspective between 1415–1420 by the Florentine architect and engineer Filippo Brunelleschi and later by British-American painter, David Hockney, using a mirror-lens to project images and then trace them. The two titans of art stood in the doorway of the Cathedral of Florence (the Duomo), looking across the piazza directly at the Baptistery of San Giovanni. I found similar hiding places and generated my own profoundly similar images to achieve the same end. Pretty fun.
2018-2019
TEACHING: HOMESCHOOL
Captain Fantastic, Homeschool, 1st Grade, Frisco, CO. 2018.
First Day of School with and among ‘Pando,’ the largest living organism in North America; an aspen grove. Homeschool, 1st and 4th grade - Fish Lake, Utah.
While in the fall we ventured for 46 days across the country, camping, seeing family, and (of course) collectively learning along the way - over spring the kids continued to “un-pack” their new knowledge and apply it to their studies and projects. Good times.