I am excited and thankful for the opportunity to share my work this summer at Lower Columbia College in Longview, WA. I will be showing some ballpoint pen drawings from my series Running Dialogue. This is a group exhibition called Divergent Art II. Summer hours for the gallery are Monday/Tuesday 10am-6pm and Wednesday 10am-4pm.

I will be showing my latest body of work at Green River Community College in Auburn WA. The show is up from November 3 through December 5, 2011. I will be talking about the work in the gallery on Thursday December 1st at 12:00. Hope you can make it to the conversation!

I am very happy to announce that I will be teaching drawing again at Olympic College as well as returning to Green River Community College to teach Art Appreciation in the Fall. I want to thank all the faculty at both schools for allowing me to share my passion of art with the communities of Bremerton and Auburn, Washington.

I am happy to announce that I've been accepted to show at at Front Porch Gallery's Art of the Book exhibition. Front Porch Gallery is located at 2903 Carlsbad Boulevard, Carlsbad, CA 92008, between Carlsbad Village Dr. and Grand Ave. The exhibition runs from May 21 through July 3. The opening reception is May 21 and features live music by Clay Colton.

Portland, Oregon. On February 4th, 2011 The 100th Monkey Studio will host an art opening for the studio’s Partnership show. The event will be held from 6pm-9pm and is free and open to the public.
During the evening there will be live entertainment and refreshments. This event is for all ages. The show will hang in the studio from 2/4/11-2/27/11.

In light of Valentine’s Day, artists were asked to explore the many themes of partnership and were encouraged to submit collaborative pieces. Come and enjoy interpretations of this natural occurrence in a variety of mediums conceptualized by local artists. We will also be featuring open mic from 6-9, where anyone with a passion to share the spoken word is welcome! Bring in your old love letters, poetry, embarrassing moments, or share a song. Each participant may have three performances, a maximum of three minutes in length each. In addition to the show and performances, Suzanne Stewart will be offering professional in-depth tarot card readings for your questions pertaining to partnership or anything else. A ten minute session is just $10.

Partnership features work by Jayne Chandler, Brad Dinsmore and Jaclyn Gibson, Heather Freeman and Jeff Murphy, Mike Fridman and Aubrey Jangraw, Elisabeth Horan, Rainbow Pussy, and Elisabeth Mitchell, Beth Ann Short and Robert Lafady.

Despite not having any classes this quarter, the wonderful and accommodating faculty at Green River Community College allowed me to hang work in the GRCC Faulty Show. The closing reception is Thursday October 28th.

My piece, Tools For Unlocking the Abstract, has been selected for the Alchemical, Hermetic and Rosicrucian Art Salon's "Enlightenment Through Experience" Exhibition in Santa Fe, New Mexico on September 24, 25, 26.

At Parlour Room Gallery's Open Mic(rophone) & Visual Art Show on August 19th, I will be hanging a solo exhibition of my last three bodies of work. I hope to see you there!

The Tent Show (or Traveling Arts Encampment) is going to be in Les Grove Part in Auburn, WA. It is part of this years Auburn's Artrageous from 11 am to 4 pm Saturday, August 7th. Come check out my new tent!

I have been selected to show work in the Sixth Street Gallery's juried show Self Portraits: Who Am I Today in Vancouver, WA. I will be showing three pieces, so if you want to see my face you should check it out. The show will be up for the month of July and the opening is the First Friday from 5:00 - 9:00pm.

You can check out there website at www.sixthstreetgallery.com

A fellow Tacoma artist and GRCC professor Kathleen Casteel and I have been selected to create a piece for the 2010 Salmonchanted Harbor Heron Sculptures. This collaborative piece will be on display with other Heron Sculpture this summer in Gig Harbor, Washington. On September 18th an "Auction Extravaganza" will feature the creations, with proceeds going to fund Peninsula Hands On Art.

I'm participating in Art House Gallery's The Space Between Us, where artists submit a 4 x 6 inch work of art. The pieces will be exhibited in Brooklyn, New York and will be voted on by the viewers of the show for the 100 best. The 100 with the highest votes will be put on the Art House Gallery website for another round of voting. The 50 artists with the highest votes will create a larger piece for a second exhibition. The person with the most votes will be granted a $1000 artist grant.

If you're in Brooklyn on March 19th go visit the show and vote for me! Look on my blog for an image of the piece I submitted.

I forgot to post that I am in the Tilting at Windmills show at Gallery Gray. Gallery Gray is primarily an online gallery based in the Minneapolis, MN area, but will show exhibitions at other galleries or alternative spaces. Tilting at Windmills is currently online at www.Gallery-Gray.com.

I will be showing a small drawing (titled Out of My Hands from my series Epistemological Pursuits) at Elon University's Arts West Gallery on December 8th in Elon, NC. These shows are pretty cool because there is so much to look at. Plus exhibiting small works helps keep egos in check. The show will be up until February 3, 2010.

I will be participating in Tacoma's Art Slam. This event is free to the public and should be a lot of fun!

Here's the description:

In celebration of the 8th anniversary of Art at Work: Tacoma Arts Month, the Tacoma Arts Commission is hosting an Art Slam on Wednesday, November 18. Doors open at 6:30 and the event runs from 7 to 9 pm at the Rialto Theater in downtown Tacoma.

Join us for a reception in the Rialto lobby following the event, allowing community members an opportunity to mingle.


What is an Art Slam? In a fast-paced format, a selection of work by local visual and performing artists will be projected on the big screen, set to a soundtrack of musical accompaniment. Live dance and spoken word performances will be interspersed between segments of the show. An accompanying description of artists’ work and contact information will be included in a program. Artists of all mediums and genres will show their work, ranging from the very accomplished to the up and coming. Everyone presents their work in the same format. The Art Slam is a place for artists and art enthusiasts to gather and share their work in a non-competitive atmosphere. The event is meant to be a fun, relaxed and inspiring evening, reminding us why we create art in the first place.

In addition to the live November 18 show, the Art Slam will be available for free public viewing on Click! ON Demand’s TacomaArt & Culture channel through December 2010. ON Demand is accessible to anyone who is a Click! Cable TV customer with a digital receiver.

Here's a link to ART AT WORK / Tacoma Arts Month: 2009 http://www.tacomaculture.org/arts/resource/ArtAtWorkTacoma/web/Default.htm

My piece Bluebird Bank (for Change) has been chosen for the Celebrate 50 Juried Art Exhibit at the Lynnwood Library Gallery. The show will be on display from September 28 to November 12 and the reception is Saturday, October 3rd at 11 AM.

I will be participating in Fragile Skin: The Boarder Among to Being and to Appear. The show is in Lecce, Italy at Primo Piano LivinGallery starting September 13. I will have a couple pieces in the show, and hopefully they sell cause I don't want to ship them back!

I will be showing at Two Vaults Gallery in Tacoma, WA from August 20th through September 12th. The show is titled Rabbitual and as you've probably guessed, it's about rabbits! The opening is Thursday August 20th, so you better come down (the rabbit hole) and see me!

Thanks to the work of my friend and artist, Andrew Peterson and the Redmond Arts Administration, the Tent Show is traveling to Redmond, WA on July 25. It will be held at Redmond City Hall Greenspace on Saturday, July 25, 2009 from 10 am to 7 pm. Again anyone is welcome to join in on the fun! You can contact me if you have any questions about participating this summer under the "Contact" section of my website. Tent Shows have always been fun, commercial free, social and communal events! Hope to see you there!

Oh, and of course I will be there with a new tent!

The opening of my thesis exhibition at the Museum of Fine Art at WSU opens Friday April, 10 at 6:00 PM. If you're in the area you should definately stop by. I will be showing new and unseen work (plus some of the work that's here on the website). The show will be up through May 9, 2009.

I will be participating in the Art House's third "The Sketchbook Project." Here is their description of the event:

Art House is all about community. You don't have to be a professional artist to participate in the exhibition. This project is about being creative and inspiring yourself and others. We want to bring artists together and give everyone a chance to show in museums and galleries around the country! Sign up and we'll send you a Moleskine sketchbook. The theme of the show is "everyone we know". You have until February 15th, 2009 to send your sketchbook back to us. We'll take your sketchbook, along with every else's, on tour with us to the dates below.

February 27, 2009 @ Art House Gallery - Atlanta, GA

March 3, 2009 @ Museum of Contemporary Art DC - Washington DC

March 4, 2009 @ Chris' Jazz Cafe - Philadelphia, PA

March 6, 2009 @ Laconia Gallery - Boston, MA

March 8, 2009 @ Antena Gallery - Chicago, IL

March 11, 2009 @ Soulard Art Market - St. Louis, MO

March 13, 2009 @ 3rd Ward - Brooklyn, NY

April 2, 2009 @ Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) - Atlanta, GA

May - June @ Chicago Art Source Gallery - Chicago, IL

Look for mine. It will be titled "People & Proverbs." A needle in haystack to be sure.

The next Tent Show will be held at WSU on November 8, 2008 at the corner of Stadium and Grimes from 11 am to 6 pm.

TENT SHOW MANIFESTO:

A Traveling Arts Encampment, originates in the Fine Arts Department of Washington State University. Tent show is an art exhibition that explores the boundaries of the field by operating outside of the museum and gallery context. Participants are free to experiment and to expect exciting, uncontrolled juxtapositions. Participation in the Tent show is open to all interested parties. The work must be able to be put up and taken down in one day, it should require no electricity and be able to withstand the elements. This unusual opportunity invites responsive, interdisciplinary visual expressions, evolving collaborations, and performance.

I'm looking forward to see you and your tent!

On Saturday October 4th in Spokane, Washington's Riverfront Park will host the next Tent Show. I will be showing a new tent along with my tent from last year. This is a really fun event and is open to everyone. I am going to post a link in my friends section and make a folder with pictures from the Tent Show in Pullman last year.

Here's the Manifesto:

A Traveling Arts Encampment, originates in the Fine Arts Department of Washington State University. Tent show is an art exhibition that explores the boundaries of the field by operating outside of the museum and gallery context. Participants are free to experiment and to expect exciting, uncontrolled juxtapositions. Participation in the Tent show is open to all interested parties. The work must be able to be put up and taken down in one day, it should require no electricity and be able to withstand the elements. This unusual opportunity invites responsive, interdisciplinary visual expressions, evolving collaborations, and performance.

I'm looking forward to see you and your tent!

This week I will be showing work from my first year in graduate school in Gallery 2 at Washington State University. Closing reception will be Friday April 18, 2008 at 5:00 pm.

EAST LANSING, Mich. - East Lansing's alternative art space, (SCENE) Metrospace announces an upcoming exhibit of artwork themed around the word “transparent.” Fifteen artists from the Lansing area and all over the United States responded to this word with over 40 works of art exploring all aspects of transparency, from the physical to the emotional.

The exhibit will take place from March 7, 2008 through April 20, 2008. There will be a public artists’ reception Friday, March 7 from 6-9 PM, featuring live musical performances from Dixon’s Violin and DJ FRESH:BACE.

Artists featured in the exhibit include Okemos-based photographer Juanita Baldwin, Pullman WA-based painter Brad Dinsmore, Nacogdoches TX- based printmaker Chad Erpelding, Chicago-based mixed media-artist Jennifer Hines, Big Rapids-based mixed media artist Jill Jepsen, Grand Rapids-based printmaker Kimberly Lavon, New York NY-based photographer William Linn, Pullman WA-based multimedia artist Heather McGeachy, East Lansing-based graphic designer Kelly Salchow, East Lansing-based photographer and printmaker Jules Schmuker, East Lansing-based painter and sculptor Cedric Tai, Lansing-based painter Krys Tourtois, Lansing-based painter Anthony Vasquez, Pullman WA-based photographer Tobias Walther, and Ann Arbor-based sculptor Adam Winnie.

(SCENE) Metrospace is located at 110 Charles Street, in the lower level of the colorful Division Street parking structure. (SCENE) is open Thursdays from 2-5 PM, Fridays and Saturdays from 2-9 PM, and Sundays from 12-4 PM during scheduled exhibits. For more information, please contact Peter Richards at (517) 319-6832.