As an insatiably curious person, I wanted to use my thousands of wikipedia.org searches as fodder for a lifetime worth of illustrations. Digitally painted on iPad Pro.

8 - Bibimbap, a Korean rice dish topped with sauteed and fermented vegetables

7 - Jock Jams Vol. 1, a compilation album from 1995 with fun, upbeat music played frequently at sports events

6 - Asashoryu Akinori, Mongolian former sumo wrestler, one of the most successful yokozunaever, whose signature move was the tsuriotoshi, or full body slam

5 - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, the ‘Father of Microbiology,’ who discovered amazing things like bacteria, cell vacuoles, and spermatozoa

4 - Shanghai Noon, a martial arts western comedy film starring Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson

3 - Bethany Hamilton, professional surfer whose arm was bitten off by a tiger shark at age 13

2 - Bert and Ernie, iconic Sesame Street Muppet pair

1 - Alben W. Barkely, US Vice President who served under Harry Truman

Charcoal drawings. One of myself, the other of a toga party. Both pieces are 24" x 19".

Invitations, menus, programs, and place cards for various weddings and events. All layouts, artwork and icons created by me on iPad Pro/Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.

A gamp is a weaving sample in which there are a variety of threadings and treadlings (the order you step on the pedals of the loom) so you can see a variety of weave structures in one piece.  I dyed the warp with mx dye and the weft with indigo (both tencel) and wove it on a 8-harness loom. 

A selection of my designs produced for retail during my tenure at Arden Companies/Central Home Brands made for Lowe’s, Home Depot, Walmart, and others.

This is a collection of patterns and texture mapped objects I created for a Surtex competition.  The theme of the collection is 'art deco batik'.  I interpreted the theme by using shapes inspired by Art Deco architecture and jewelry, and combined it with the style of Dutch Wax Prints (which has its origins in Indonesian batik) to create an interesting hybrid of the two art styles.

This project is part of a series of prints I'm developing of 'Things That Don't Belong Together'.  I decided to start out with the classic combination of orange juice and toothpaste for the bitter taste a person gets after eating breakfast and brushing one's teeth.  

I also went 3D and made plaster casts of a real orange and a toothpaste tube, then making multiple porcelain slipcastings of each.  In addition, I made stencils of the objects in the pattern and sprayed glaze over them on bowls and plates to create a non-traditional breakfast table setting.

Larger-than-life art quilts created as a tribute to influential women in my life.

This series explores the public critique of private parts. Leggings and pants with a large amount of stretch have become mainstream daily wear for women. In keeping with hegemonic convention, most people (consciously or not) continue to police women’s bodies no matter what they wear, whether they cover up too much or too little.

Society is accustomed to seeing the outline of breasts, but when the outline of a vulva is present, it is occasion for ridicule.  While it is rarer for men to wear tight pants, when they compete at the highest athletic level, there is focus on the outline of their testicles in their specially-designed uniforms rather than on their great accomplishments.

Whether these reactions are a result of American society which is simultaneously highly sexual and prudish, or dissatisfaction with one’s own body image, it is hard to tell, but it is certainly an eye-opening dichotomy that is both public and private.

Cameltoe and Mooseknuckle were shown at the Whitdel Arts exhibition CROTCH: Contested Territory from Dec. 4, 2015 - Jan. 23, 2016.

Mooseknuckle was featured in the Winter 2016/2017 issue of the Surface Design Journal  http://www.surfacedesign.org/journal/about-the-journal/ 

The theme of this collection is 'new grunge', an update on early 90s grunge style. This is a collection of patterns and texture mapped objects created for a Surtex competition.  

Handwoven cotton scarf woven on an 8-harness loom using a color-and-weave technique called 'shadow weave'.

A quirky take on neoclassical-style wallpaper design.

Hand-dyed and handwoven tencel scarf.

Baby Julia was inspired by a picture that my mom took of me when I was in a bad mood at a baseball game when I was around 8 years old.

She is freestanding and can be cranky in whatever situation she is placed in.

Patterns created using watercolor on paper and digital manipulation of the scanned painting. 

A diptych exploring the parallels between my sister Alison as a small child in 1992 in a puffy coat and a small monkey found at a Canadian Ikea in 2012 in a puffy coat.

A digital drawing of a contraption my mom created for my dad to multitask easier while feeding my older sister.

SEATPAN CONCEPTS FOR LEAR CORPORATION

During my internship at Lear Corporation, I was asked to design two seatpans which incorporated laser-etched fabric that I created.  Below are photos of my designs and the actual seatpans which were sewn by the seating staff at Lear.

DESERT BOOTS

I took a workshop at the Chicago School of Shoemaking and created these boots from scratch.