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

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

Teaching: I've been screen printing since 2001, and I teach screen printing 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 off-site at POST, and in September 2018 will run 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)

 

 

 

@hoorayforever on Instagram:

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
#sketchbook
A new screen print for a New Orleans wedding - a gift for my most good friend Jennifer, who wedded her beau Zack a few weeks ago. I was happy to be there and in one of my favorite cities. I made this print when I got home, and incorporated things from the 4-day celebration around their dog Chiku, who was unable to attend. // Process pix = what started as an 8-color print ended at 5 by layering colors on top of each other; what started as a line drawing became a more shape-based image in the computer
I turned my longtime fascination with Andy Warhol as a personality and an artist into a 2-day workshop (Apr 28 & 29) where we will make screen printed portraits. Portraits of you! Your pets! Some other thing with a face that you love! I made this proof-of-concept print from a photo of Kinga - why is she wearing sunglasses? WAS it her birthday? // Registration closes on Monday & the workshop happens at @ocelotprintshop but sign-up is through: ccaadetroit.org/current-classes
NEWS: I’m happy to have an interview in the latest issue of America’s # 1 screen printing zine, POWER WASHER (# 5). Topics covered: sandwiches, greyhounds, loading t-shirts. // Related online quiz idea (feel free to steal): “Which Squeegee Durometer Are You?” Me = 55 Hufflepuff Peggy Olson (but I feel like 60 Ravenclaw Sally Draper?)
I’ve been updating my website portfolio (🙃I’m available for freelance work🙃), which was long overdue (all the phases represented - it’s my severed hands phase! there’s my skeleton phase! and my food with faces phase!), and finally photo’d this older project that I still like. Created to promote @ocelotprintshop’s memberships and classes, we gave this double-sided screen printed thing away to vendors at the 2016 Detroit Urban Craft Fair. The pieces are laser cut so you can punch them out and fold to assemble the screen (but CAN you screen print with it??). Special thanks to @darktait/@laserraysdetroit for the lasers & encouraging me to screen print fabric to look like screen mesh and glue it to each sheet like a crazy person. My favorite part of this is the Burt Reynolds-esque mouse reclining with the ink; missing: bearskin rug #screenprinting
Results of a week of playtime at @ocelotprintshop + what I absorbed in a screen printing workshop a few weeks ago + a recent conversation with my mom about the cars our family went through in its early years. At the time of my birth (1978) she was driving a ‘65 Impala, pictured here. #screenprint #65impala
“The Bitters 2: We’re Fucked” opens on Feb. 23 at @whitdelarts and I will have a new piece in it. I am making a scream pillow that says “scream” on one side and “cry” on the other. I want everyone that visits the gallery to scream and/or cry into it. Credits: @beakola for being a collaborator in the scream pillow dream/soon-to-be empire, and @swilliamschudlich for inviting me to be a part of this show. / Pillow will be screen printed and have black yarn pom poms
February is kind of a dumb time to visit Chicago, but I went this weekend and took an inspiring screen printing workshop with Jay Ryan/@thebirdmachine where we printed one of his drawings and mysteries were revealed as we worked with rubylith and color overlays and split fountains, making sure to sneak in lots of pets to Nora the dog in between. // This winter we have been taking turns at weekly “residencies” at the @ocelotprintshop and next week is my turn and I hope to be working on something fun that might include rubylith.
They say depression is anger turned i̶n̶w̶a̶r̶d̶ toward fruits & vegetables #sketchbook