I make drawings and screen prints. I live and work and grew up in Detroit, MI. I co-own a community screen printing shop. I like to read. Dogs make me happy.

Freelance: I've been a freelance illustrator & designer for over 10 years, with a range of experience in digital & non-digital projects. I'm especially good at drawing dogs and making art for screen printing (t-shirts, posters, etc).

Got a project that I might be a good fit for? Contact me.

Teaching: I've been screen printing since 2001, and I teach a variety of mostly screen printing-based classes and workshops. I plan and manage the classes we teach at Ocelot Print Shop, where I am a co-owner. Annually we teach over 160 people how to screen print, with that number growing each year. I also teach screen printing workshops at POST, and in September 2018 I ran a weekend artist demo at the DIA. 

Want to run a screen printing workshop somewhere? Contact me.

Hooray Forever is the label I create products under, from prints to zines to zipper pouches (zines are my favorite!).

Physical locations where you might be able to purchase my things: Signal-Return (Detroit) | POST (Detroit) | Printed Matter (NY) | Wildcard (Pittsburgh) | City Bird (Detroit) | Craft Handmade (Adrian) | Domestica (Des Moines) | White Rabbit (Iowa City) | Rescued (Moline) | Gift Horse (Nashville) | Quimby's (Chicago)

(In addition to this website and my Etsy store)

 

 

 

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We learned a little screen printing and celebrated our pets at today’s screen printed pet portrait workshop at @post.detroit.shop! No snakes this time, but snake-havers your next chance is Nov. 18, when we run this workshop again.
Emily Dickinson had a big shaggy dog named Carlo, who was her constant companion for 16 years. He shows up in many of her poems and letters. She was devastated when he passed away, and FR861 (what this poem has been titled) is a tribute to him, written months after his death. // I’ve been thinking about Emily and Carlo and this poem a lot lately and I made this drawing. One year ago today I held Miguel (my dog, my companion for 13 years) in my arms while he was put to sleep by the pond in the yard. One year ago, feels like a hundred, feels like a day. // But Miguel was loved by many and should be remembered for the way he made people happy, so I’m also sharing this other drawing I found recently while going through my messy drawer of drawings — an outtake from a zine I made to celebrate his 10th birthday (2014).
Day 1 of 2 artist demo complete at @diadetroit - we had some fun today 🎉 Doing it again tomorrow 12 - 4 in Prentis Court (by the donkey, or, if you prefer, the cafeteria). Since my process is equal parts drawing and printing, we’re screen printing a base image (dogs or plants, your choice) and then drawing the details into the print. It’s a free event! Thank you to the DIA for inviting me!
#sketchbook
Another thing + another thing = this is a new print in a new series + I’m vending with new prints and old prints this Saturday August 25 in Ann Abor at @aadlgram’s first ever Wayzgoose print festival. If you like prints and printing and zines and fun and libraries and you’re one of my friends that lives out there and you’re free that day please come!
Because we all need one: Sunday August 26 as part of @post.detroit.shop’s Textile Takeover weekend event I’m hosting a free drop-in “make your own scream pillow” workshop. You’ll choose fabric, print “scream” on the fabric, hand-sew it and stuff it. Or upgrade to SCREAM PILLOW DELUXE for $15 to add pom pom trim and I’ll machine-sew it for you. Make one for home! For the car! For the office! In a couple months it will be dirty with your screams and you’ll feel a sense of accomplishment. “At least I got that done.” // POST will have a couple of my pre-made scream pillows for sale if you need one but making one is out of the question.
I spent last week at @oxbowschoolofart in a non-computer-based screen printing class with Nick Butcher and Mat Daly and had a pretty excellent time. I made new prints and a book under an “endangered species/extinction/memory/post-apocalypse” theme. I traded prints with my new summer camp friends. I made an iron tile for Miguel’s grave. I walked in the woods and swam in Lake Michigan. I didn’t have to cook for a whole week. (Though when camp was over @piescipizza was my first stop before home because, Pizza, I missed you the most).
I made a new print today #splitfountainhair
Old art freshly printed // Side note as a screen printer I am required to have dirty fingernails always
People printing and talking about their pets! Two of my favorite things combined into one in today’s screen printed pet portraits class at @post.detroit.shop. If you’re feeling like “aw man I missed it” you’ll have another chance to print your pet at POST in September. Hoping for a snake 🐍
You can make a custom screen printed portrait of your pet (!!) at a new class I’m offering at @post.detroit.shop - here’s a demo I made with POST’s resident wieners (and my new studio mates!), Frank & Eddie. I am into printing eye-searing colors, but you don’t have to and will have a rainbow of both vibrant and muted colors to choose from. You’ll have your own print station to make a dozen prints, and we’ll go over printing split fountains, halftones, and making screens without a darkroom. Two dates available - July 22 and September 16. Sign up at @post.detroit.shop
We’re having a party for @ocelotprintshop’s 5th anniversary! June 30. Everyone’s invited, even you. We screen printed these posters, which feature poster-essentials such as: ✔️unicorns ✔️split fountains ✔️color overlays ✔️inside jokes ✔️things people are afraid of ✔️metallic gold