What I'm Doing Now
- Living in Madison, Wisconsin as a full-time artist
- Running a 1,700 square foot anti-gentrification art studio
- 6 years running my art business making murals, art installations, and large-scale art experiences
- Growing my business the smart and responsible way, with a solid infrastructure
- Hosting one of the few paid art internships in Madison, Wisconsin, because screw unpaid labor!
- Scaling three-story high scaffolding and boom lifts (during good weather) to paint beauty into the world
- President of the Board of Directors of Wisconsin Visual Artists
- Chair of the 2020 Biennial of Museum of Wisconsin Art
- Consulting for cultural organizations on best practices centered on equity
- Winter hiking
- Writing for my blog, Learning to See, as a way to share stories and research on equity for artists, to encourage a paradigm shift
- Fighting for diversity and fair pay for artists
- Advocating for the value of artists and laborers as a part of the solution against gentrification
- Reading: my top recommendations currently are On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State, and Owning Our Future
- Hosting potlucks
- Growing my community, at home and anywhere I go
- Getting married summer 2021
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Last update: January 14, 2021. Prompted by Derek Siver's Now Movement.