I majored in printmaking at Bemidji State University and while I love the technical aspects of etching and block printing, the immediacy of monoprinting is rewarding.  This is the first of some exploration into the Pink Houses project which is conjunction with the 100 day project.  As I told some artist friends of mine, I… Read more

For over 20 years I’ve been intrigued with an idea based on the song Pink Houses by John Mellencamp combined with the fact a good friend who is also an artist, lived in a pink house.  It just never seemed to come to the forefront, but every time I hear the song, the lyrics nag at… Read more

This week, I’m attending one of the Art Educator Workshops at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD).  The class is being taught by Val Jenkins (see her work here).   To start with, we watched the John Cage documentary.  I’m not a huge fan of the work, but I get it for the… Read more

  This is a story I wrote for an English Composition class in 1995.  The story is factual, with the exception of my “thought” interjections.  I have been looking for this written work well over a decade and probably close to 15 years.  Today, I found it stored among other important papers.   The essay… Read more

Having just finished a portfolio print, I’m now on to creating two more.  The first one will be for this project and I’ll be printing this afternoon.  The second one is in the incubation stage as I was just invited to participate in that one.  Looking forward to again being a part of  a print… Read more

    The above image titled, “Who’s Holding the Strings” puts things back into perspective for me.  Painted in 2009, this represented a chaotic time in my life where I felt betrayed, manipulated and out of control.  Not that I’m in any more control, but I was able to take the symbolic scissors and cut… Read more

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I took my artist self to Bluegrass, MN. Population unknown. It’s the epitome of “The Middle of Nowhere” but I’ve driven through it so many times and always slapped myself upside the head for not having a camera along. It’s inhabited, but today was the first time in the 15 years of going through that… Read more

Several years ago, I started a creative recovery process through a book by Julia Cameron, titled the Artist’s Way. The basic premise is to uncover the road blocks of an individual’s creativity through a process of embracing a higher power and utilizing that energy to achieve artistic fulfillment. The last time I read the book,… Read more

Recently, I was looking through some of my photographs and somewhere in my house this particular work resides. I was in a master’s program for education and decided to take a graphic design class for an elective graduate credit.  I needed to complete an assignment for a CD cover/case, but since I was at a… Read more

Well, I doubt it was my first drawing, but it is the oldest one that I still have in my possession.  The drawing, done on an unusual coated linen paper, is of the funeral of President John F. Kennedy.  My mother kept the drawing for years and about five years ago gave me a bag… Read more

As an artist, I want to be able to share individual works, projects and the progress of my art work.  Right now, I’ll be learning the ins and outs of WordPress and making it look a bit more personalized. Read more