PDX Open Studios is this coming weekend! I have been hard at work finishing up the Guggenheim Suite, and it will be visible in completed form this Saturday, at Bite Studio (2000 SE 7th). I will be in the studio from 10am to 5pm on October 9, 10, 16, and 17. Everyone who is in Portland should come by and see my work and watch me print an edition. If you want to buy a tour guide to go to any of the other 99 artists on the tour (and I highly recommend you do so - there are some very talented people participating this year) you can get one at my studio! They are $15 dollars, which is a steal because not only do you get entrance into 100 different artist's studios, but the tour guide itself is a really beautiful calendar with images of all the art on the tour. I hope to meet lots of people in the coming two weekends, and I'm excited and proud to showing this work - I'm not 100% sure yet, but I think I'm very pleased with it.

You'd think the entire Portland printmaking community wants me to get a big head, I've been getting so much recognition. Most recently I applied for and won one of 9 spots in Print Arts Northwest (PAN) Emerging Artist Residency! This is a wonderful opportunity for me to meet even more printmakers, and get involved in with one of the larger arts organizations in Portland. PAN has a ton of members (a few of whom I know already because they work at Bite). As part of the residency I get assigned a mentor, have quarterly critiques and opportunities to show my work, and get access to Atelier Meridian, besides having the chance to meet even more wonderful printmakers. The access to Atelier Meridian is wonderful because they are a large, and, from everything I can tell, very well equipped printshop up in North Portland. So anything that we don't have the resources to do at Bite I can now do at Atelier Meridian instead.

Updates on other fronts: PDX Open studios is coming along at a nice clip. I just finished helping edit the tour guide (which should be available in a month or so) and it looks great! Many thanks to Kindra Crick and Careen Stoll for all their hard work on that. As one of the scholarship winners, I have a little passage in the front all about ME, so be sure to pick one up and read it, and then come to my studio in October. Besides Open Studios, my big art related task this fall is going to be applying for my MFA. It is going to be a freaking TON of work, so everyone keep your fingers crossed that things are a little less competitive than they were last year, and I get in to grad school.

So, remember how I mentioned a few posts back that I was applying to a few things for the fall? Well, my application to Portland Open Studios was not only accepted, but I was also awarded the Kimberly Gales Emerging Artist Scholarship. EEK! I'm pleased and honored to be chosen, and I'm very grateful for the stipend and the fee waiver and publicity that comes with the scholarship. Every bit helps! And I want to give a big shout out to Shawn Demarest for turning me on to the CAP Auction and to Portland Open Studios. She's not only a marvelous woman, but she's a great printmaker and painter as well, so go google her and check out her wonderful work!

But, back to open studios details. The organization that runs open studios puts out a calendar and map that you can buy for about $15 bucks, which should come out in the next few months. As a scholarship winner, I get featured in the calendar, with an interview and a picture and everything! All this attention is starting to go to my head wheeee. I took a look at last year's calendar, and there are some great artists who participate, and Shawn tells me that it's a lot of fun, and a lot of people come out, so it should be really great. If you happen to be in Portland during the second or third week in October (that's the 9th, 10th, 16th and 17th), please please please come by my studio! I'll be there working from 10am - 5pm all 4 of those days.

and it's all very exciting! It's gonna be a longish post, so please don't run away! I'll start with the older news, and move on to the newer, in a feeble attempt to build suspense.

First, Biting Alberta - it's a show up at the Living Room, on NE Alberta. It's another group show of Bite Studio members, and I've got 4 prints in it, up in the upper part of the office. It comes down on Wednesday, so if you wanna see it, go before then! It was really great of Shawn and Bridget Larabee (the art scout) to set up the show - it was awesome!

Second, the latest show at Bite is still up, and the shop is open 11-3 on Saturdays and Fridays all February, so everyone should go and buy work! It's a theme group show, called Love-in-Print. It's a benefit for p:ear, a non-profit that mentors homeless youth, as I think I mentioned in a previous news post. So, if you are wondering around this weekend, or next, stop by! It's a great show, over 30 printers, and it's for a great cause. Totally worth a trip to SE Portland!

And, most recently and most excitingly for me, the print I submitted to the CAP Auction not only got accepted, but earned an honorable mention! This means that I get to attend the event (it's a contemporary art auction for the Cascade AIDS Project) and rub elbows/hobnob with the fancy-schmancy of the Portland art scene but my piece is ALSO included in the catalog which gets distributed to galleries etc. I'm in serious danger of getting hideously self-important you guys. Oh my lord, the instinct to network is almost overpowering..... must resist impending pretentiousness....I dooooooooooooooooooooomed.

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Excuse me. Now, lastly, I've set up my next show for Bite. I'll be showing the first Friday in June, otherwise known as JUNE 4 2010. Be there or be square, daddy-o.

That's all for the moment! I've got a coupe more things in the works that I'm applying to, so I'll be updating as there are things to update.

Hey there!

So, last Friday was the opening for my first show at Bite, and I was overall very happy with the work I turned out for it. No sales, and no huge crowds, but a really fun party with some great conversations and I met a deadline, which always feels good. I'm going to work on taking slides and getting them up on the website for people to see and enjoy! On a related note, the bite website has been updated and it looks awesome! Thanks George! Head on over and take a look when you get a chance, and you'll see some great work by my fellow bite studio members, including Jenn Feeney, who is also showing at Bite at the moment. She's a really wonderful monotypist (not to mention a lovely person), and there are some great images of her work on the website.

So, I'm going to be in 2 more group shows over the next 4-6 weeks. One is a show at the living room with my fellow bite studio members, and the other is the February show at Bite. The next show at Bite is special; it's called "Love in Print" and is a benefit for p:ear, which is a nonprofit that mentors homeless youth in Portland. It's a great cause, so if you can possibly make it out for the opening on Feb. 5 (or even better buy something!) that would be amazing. Not only will you enjoy a fun party with some really great art, but you'll be helping out a good cause!

Alright, that's all for the time being! I'll post again when I add new images to the site.

Hey Everyone,

So, my printshop (Bite Studio, www.bitestudio.org) had it's "Best of 2009" show last Friday, and I put a few prints in it. If you get a chance, stop by and take a look (if anyone is around to let you in, that is). My show is still next month (the 8th in fact) and I'll be splitting the wall space with another fabulous artist named Jenn Feeney. Hope I'll get a few of you guys to come out! It's going to be good I hope.

Hey there everybody,

I've just set a date for my first post-graduation show. On January 8th at bite studio in Portland, I will hang my work (maybe all by myself, eek!). This is very exciting and slightly daunting, as now I clearly need to get off my lazy behind and actually MAKE some new work. Deadlines are amazing that way. It's going to be a mad rush but it's going to be great I think. It is very important to get the adrenal glands working - makes for productivity. I'm going to start work on my next suite, based on the architecture of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, where I worked this summer. I've got a bunch of drawings that have been sitting in my sketchbook since midsummer, and it's time for them to come out and play.

Anyway, more updates as I continue to work. And as we get closer to the show, more updates again, with details in case any one wants to know how to actually GET to it. Hooray!

I am moving to Portland OR in September 2009. I am really excited to get in to the art scene, and check out a bunch of printshops out there. If anyone has any contacts in Portland (galleries, museums, schools, printshops etc) please let me know! I am experienced in most printmaking techniques, as well as with museum work more generally. I am excited to get involved, and always looking for people to meet!

Welcome to my new website!