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Spirit duplicator masters transferred to printmaking paper, sewn in a modified stab binding with acrylic inset. Spirit Guide, 2022 edition of 3 I’ve been thinking a lot about appropriation, and how materials, techniques, and imagery hold cultural weight. I’m fascinated by the New Age to white supremacy pipeline, and how casual appropriation can push our…

It’s not very often that my book life and my day-job life intersect, but this month I have an artist’s book included in an exhibit at the Pendleton Center for the Arts because I was also a resident at Pine Meadow Ranch. Past, 2022 began when I found a child’s toy drum at the thrift…

I was browsing my Instagram feed the other day when an image of a Solander box scrolled up, and all I could see was the edge of a clunky turn-in that peeked out from under the paste-down. I know that there’s often not ‘one right way’ to do things, but I really do think this…

My earliest memory is of walking to church on a maple-leaf stained sidewalk in Bremen, Indiana, my Aunt Marie berating my Uncle Dewey for the black grease still embedded under his short fingernails and in the creases of his hands. Dewey was a diesel mechanic, and owned Balsley’s Garage, the name spray-painted in cursive on…

Here’s a peek at some of the journals that went home with shoppers at this year’s Art of the Gift event at PCA. I’ll be teaching this basic structure as a “Book in a Day” class at the 2022 Focus on Book Arts conference this summer. These photos show examples of the ways the tiny…

Pushing the limits of different structures is always on my mind, and the sewn board binding affords several opportunities for exploration. I learned Gary Frost’s adaptation of this binding from Barb Tetenbaum in the mid-90’s at the summer book arts program at Whitman College, and have made hundreds of books using it since. This piece…

I typically don’t donate artwork to organizations outside my community, but I made an exception for the Altered Book Fundraiser at the MarinMOCA for a few of reasons. First, even though my work is varied, to say the least, altered books are a bit outside my typical thing. Second, I wanted this piece to be…

If you need something for your bookish friends and family, check out the Books for Sale section.This set is one of my recent favorites.

Other people’s birthdays, retirements and special events are a gift to ME, as I get to experiment with materials and techniques outside of my typical studio work. Often, these experiments inform future work and they always help to hone my bench skills. So THANKS to my pals for letting me make you something fun.  

Introducing Summer Day, a piece inspired by long days spend outdoors, examining the component parts of plants, having those materials in hand and seeing and feeling how the sun had transformed them and prepared them to reproduce. A trail from a solitary bee makes an appearance too. (I’ve always wanted to market a line of…