New Art, Exhibits, an Award and Classes (and a reminder to vote)

30 Wednesday Sep 2026

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The next class I’m teaching will be a gelli printing class at the Art Hub in Cambridge, WI on October 10th from 1-4. You can register here. The address is 145 W. Main and cost is $83. This may be the most fun class I have ever taught. It’s going to be a challenge to keep it to 3 hours because there is so much I want to share about this relaxing and exciting technique. I will also share some examples of what I use my prints for because it is easy to generate a lot of them!

It seems like I have been really busy for a long time! I do have quite a lot to show for it. The collage packs that I am selling at the Art Hub in Cambridge are selling well and I have been using some of the paper sets to create art that more obviously includes them. Here is a selection of my new work.

This month I have been relaxing into my art journal some more. It started out with working out timing and materials for my art journaling class I taught and I enjoyed it so much I have been doing more of it. My classes this fall include some gelli printing and I have been doing a lot of practicing. My art journal is a great place to keep samples from my experiments. I also created the simple piece of a silhouette looking at a piece of art both cut from a print pictured above. I’m including photos from the art journaling class which was small but enthusiastic.

I currently have art on exhibit at the Art Hub in Cambridge, as part of a group exhibit with the Wisconsin Visual Artists at UW Madison Hospital and at Monroe Street Dental office on Monroe Street. The exhibit at the dentist’s office will be up until Feb. 2027 and I will be there for gallery night on November 6. I have also learned that the pieces that were purchased by UW Hospital are in a new wing at the East Hospital location as part of their permanent collection.

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This piece has come home from the Association of Wisconsin Artists statewide exhibit at the Pyle Center and I won the Antigo Visual Arts Accolade. Prints and cards of this piece are for sale at Madison Art Market on Odana Road and are selling very well. It is one of my favorite pieces.

Don’t forget to vote! Let’s keep democracy alive!

Fall Classes Now Available

19 Wednesday Aug 2026

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I will be teaching at the Art Hub in Cambridge, WI again this fall! It is such a wonderful space and Jacy, the owner, is great to work with. This fall I will be focusing on exploring mixed media with different projects AND I will be teaching a GELLI Printing Class!!! I’m so excited. It is one of my favorite things to teach and I have so many techniques that I’m excited to share. All of the mixed media classes will use gelli prints and two of them will have some basic gelli printing techniques included. Register for any of the classes here. The cost for the classes are either $83 or $85, with the note cards and canvas classes being slightly more expensive.

New Inventory and Firefly Coffee House Show

20 Monday Jul 2026

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I currently have work showing at Firefly Coffee House in Oregon, WI. They are open weekdays from 6am-2pm. On Fridays they have fantastic cinnamon rolls until they sell out. Their baked goods are all good as far as I have experienced! Here is what I am showing there.

I dropped off a selection of my original block prints at Madison Art Market on Friday. They are at 5944 Odana Rd, Madison, WI and are open daily from 10am-5pm. The prices range from $80-$150 depending on size, specialty paper and complexity of the print. Here is an overview of the packaging and a few selections from the 26 prints I dropped off.

I am assembling more collage packs for the Art Hub in Cambridge, WI. They are located at 145 W. Main St. and their hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10AM-5PM. I have also submitted the information for the fall classes I plan to teach there and Jacy (the amazing owner) is putting together the schedule. It should be coming out soon and I will share the details at that time but I will be teaching a gelli printing class in October and Exploring Mixed Media classes in September, November and December. The classes will each be on the second Saturday of the month.

I have been continuing with my block print every day and have reached 200 consecutive days! In June and July my prints have mostly been on index cards as part of ICAD (Index Card A Day).

(Half) A Year of Block Printing

01 Wednesday Jul 2026

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I have made some sort of block print every day so far this year. It has been an interesting experiment and has led me to new ideas and improved my carving and printing skills. I’m kind of running out of steam, but I’m going to try to keep going. Here are some of my favorites from so far this year. I had to include my cat and a picture of my solo exhibit at University of Wisconsin Hospital.

Hospital Solo Exhibit and Finished 100 Day Project

19 Friday Jun 2026

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I have been too busy to post but I have so much to share! My solo exhibit is up at the Carbone Cancer Center at UW Hospital 600 Highland Drive in Madison, WI. This part is always open to the public. There is another section upstairs that is only open for viewing when the Center is open so stay tuned for photos from there. Having my art in the hospital is really a dream come true. I hope it provides some comfort or respite for people passing through.

I finished the 100 day project during which I made a block print every day for 100 days. I have actually been making a block print every day since the beginning of the year. I’m on day 169, almost halfway there!

Here are some close ups. The square ones are for the EcoSquared Show at Hatch Art House on Williamson Street next month.

Door County, Wisconsin Vacation

07 Sunday Jun 2026

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It has been quite a while since I have posted! I have been very busy! I dropped off all the art for my solo exhibit at the Carbone Cancer Center at the University of Wisconsin Hospital at 600 Highland Drive in Madison on April 28th. I was pretty worn out. And then I went on vacation on May 1 to one of my favorite places, Door County. It is the “thumb” on the misshaped mitten that is Wisconsin and it has so much natural beauty, art and cherries! I continued on with my 100 day project of making a block print every day while I was there with a travel kit I have posted about back in March. Here are some of the block prints I made while I was there.

The center photo was taken at Roots Inn and Restaurant in Sister Bay, the B and B we stayed at while we were there. Collin made these adorable and delicious little scones for us every morning as an appetizer for a fantastic hot breakfast every morning. He was a lawyer in his previous life and has state statue books around the place for decor. I traded him some pages from a really old one for a piece of art on one of the pages. That is the picture on the right. I had a few simple square blocks that I could print in different configurations and sometimes I added some Zentangling. I don’t do well with daylight due to an extreme UVA sensitivity that triggers my Sjogren’s autoimmune disease so it was nice to have something to work on during peak daylight hours at our B and B or a coffee shop.

That sensitivity has made me appreciate sunset walks even more than I did before. We also went for a very brief moonlight walk but it was too dark and dangerous! We had a few days with really lovely weather and I was able to get some photos that make me very happy.

We did a lot more exploring and on the days with wetter weather we checked out art galleries.

New Art Available on Fine Art America and Upcoming Art Journaling Class

18 Saturday Apr 2026

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I have 5 new pieces of art available on Fine Art America. This is a print on demand site and you can get my art printed on a wide variety of items, from canvas, to phone cases, to mugs! Here are the new pieces. I have added quite a few of my other new pieces this year and it is definitely worth checking out. I have a number of people who have gifted puzzles of my work to friends and family for the holidays with very positive responses.

I also have a class at the Art Hub in Cambridge, Wisconsin on April 25 on making an art journal out of paper bags. It is super fun and I have posted about the ones I have made for different series I have created. It costs $86 and you will leave with a new art journal. Register here.

I’m almost ready for my solo exhibit at the Carbone Cancer Center at University of Wisconsin Hospital that will run from April 28th through July 28.

Wishing you moments of peace and beauty today and everyday.

Rabbit Holes, Organization, and Victorian Puzzle Purses

06 Monday Apr 2026

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I am on day 95 on my journey to make a block print of some kind every day this year. I am also on day 43 of the 100 day project Instagram challenge. Some surprising insights are the amount of mess I have been making without taking time to tidy up and the frequency of tangents I go off on. Both of these discoveries are creating a growing urgency in me to get my works in progress organized. But first I have to get everything ready for my solo show that is being installed on April 28th. I have figured out what pieces I want to include and a few that I still want to finish. Then I have to get everything into the Artist Archive program that I have started using to get my inventory organized. It helps me keep track of what is where at any given time and is fantastic for getting ready for a solo show. I will be able to print out labels and all the paperwork I need so easily. Once everything is entered. I am waiting for a few pieces that are getting scanned and framed. I’m getting there.

I have created new sets of blocks for my small torus mandala prints and some new square blocks, too. I am going to use some of the mandalas in the UW Hospital show at the end of month and the squares are some of the rabbit holes I have been exploring. I keep putting the squares aside to finish everything for the show, but they have some heavy gravity for me right now! The reasons for the square blocks are a traveling block printing kit I am assembling for a trip planned at the beginning of May and for Victorian Puzzle Purses. Back in March I posted about the travel kit and occasionally I think of a new block to supplement the kit and I love this larger, combined block and now I want to make them in lots of sizes.

I was starting to lose or damage things so I did a good tidy of my work space and only moved one small pile to another table. And then there were the Victorian Puzzle Purses! I don’t remember where I first saw them but I have watched so many videos on YouTube and Instagram and I am thrilled with the blocks I have carved so far. I do keep making them so I don’t forget the folds, but no more designing for them until the show is up!

I have been playing around with stitching and block printing increasingly this year. Here are some early paper stitching projects. I’m going to take an exciting Sashiko class in Door County later this summer and I am struggling to hold off on these until after the show is ready. It is actually really exciting to see a body of work come together. I’m writing positive songs, poems and meditations in the background of most of them because I need to balance the energy of the protests and rage about what is happening with peace and beauty where I can.

Peace