Upcoming Workshops

Summer 2021

This afternoon workshop provided an introduction to reductive block printing. We use the picnic tables at Buffalo Peaks Ranch in South Park, CO as our outdoor studio and created two color block prints with minimal equipment. This really fun outdoor workshop will be a blueprint for many more similar ones to come!

Summer 2018 - 2021

This course provides an introduction to the basic skills of designing, printing, and binding artists’ books and related ephemera. We first explore typography and setting lead type through the creation of a collaborative type specimen book, then study page composition through a poster assignment for a fictional speaker event. For the final project, students complete an edition of three original artists’ books of any structure and content. Throughout the course, alternative approaches to book making, including using a laser cutter, learning new book structures from YouTube, and unconventional collagraph printing, are encouraged

Spring and Fall 2019

Design for Social Justice combines printmaking in the studio, digital graphic design skills, and an examination of historical protest imagery to practice crafting a powerful visual message. To hone communication skills, concepts including typography, page composition, and color theory are applied through projects incorporating linocut and monotype printing.

Summer 2016 and 2017

The Institute for Visual Environmental Communication is a summer course in which students gain the skills and knowledge to communicate environmental issues impacting the Colorado Rocky Mountains with the public in an engaging way. This interdisciplinary course develops creative problem solving and strong visual communication skills.

Fall 2016 through Spring 2018

During the course of my MFA, I served as a teaching assistant for five courses: Introduction to Printmaking, Introduction to Photography, Foundations of Art, Science, and Technology, Foundations of Visual Literacy, and 3D Design. My responsibilities as a TA included running a discussion section twice a week, reviewing assignments with students, planning review lectures, doing demonstrations, and completing grading.

Fall 2016 through Spring 2018

In response to the 2016 presidential election results, I founded a letterpress poster collective at UCSB called Fresh Prints. Our mantra is, "Use your hands to speak your mind", and we do this by printing letterpress posters by hand. We meet bi-weekly, with around 15 members taking part at different times.

2015 through 2016

Climate Odyssey was a year-long sailing expedition and art and science collaboration. After restoring a 30-year-old wooden catamaran, we sailed more than 3,500 miles from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, documenting climate change impacts and adaptations in an edition of artists' books and an interactive digital map.

2012 through 2013

I taught English at Osafune Junior High School in rural Japan through the Japanese Exchange and Teaching, or JET, program. This challenging experience profoundly shaped my understanding of culture and independence.