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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 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.

Collage Packs Now Available and New Solo Exhibit

23 Monday Mar 2026

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The Art Hub in Cambridge, WI has a new product available. I have collected 40-50 papers into sets that can be used for art journaling and collage. They include a mix of gelli printed papers of all kinds, book pages, antique papers from magazines, sheet music and ledgers, security envelopes, book pages used as paint pallets, commercial and hand painted tissue papers, block printed papers and more. They are only available in person at the gallery at this point.

I have also been invited to have a solo exhibit at the UW Hospital Carbone Cancer Center in Madison, WI. It will be up from April 29 – July 27 this year. The exhibit spaces are open for guests to view. The J3/1 area of this space (on the first floor) does have limited hours from M-F 7:30am-5pm. The portion of the exhibit on the 2nd floor (J3/2) is located in a public accessible area and is therefore open 24/7, though the best time to visit is during visiting hours 8am -9pm. There will not be a reception for this exhibit. Having my art in medical spaces is one of my highest goals and comes from the many hours I have spent waiting and looking at art that did not engage me when I was in very difficult situations. I hope that my art will engage patients and their families and provide them with moments of peace. I am getting some new pieces framed for this exhibit.

Daily Art Practice

04 Wednesday Mar 2026

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My daily block printing art practice is going very well with 2 months of printing and posting them on Instagram. I am continuing to print single pages of tessellating torus mandala blocks on old book/magazine pages. I’m playing with black and brown on the aged papers with lovely results. I came across this pink gelli printed book page and printed my spectacles block in pink and black and I played around with varying sizes of square blocks in a variety of colors on a scrap of paper from a large mandala.

I have a trip coming up in May and I have been putting together a travel printing/art kit to take with me. I recently went to a one day mediation retreat and took my kit to give it a trial run. The “Love” print got a Zentangle treatment and turned out nicely. The little sketchbook is new and I am very happy with the paper. The ink didn’t bleed through and it took shading well. I decided I needed blocks that I could layer and play with a lot of different combinations so I created a bunch of one inch squares that are super fun to play with! And I played!

Have you noticed that I have a tendency to play and experiment? Another series of experiments I am working on is combining watercolor with my block prints in a really mindful way. This is bringing me lot of joy and I hope it cheers you up as well.

Grids keep appearing in my art journals. The square blocks I carved in December work so well on them and creating a master sheet that looks like a hot mess then comes together in something beautiful is a metaphor I really need these days. This is a new junk journal I made recently using a wide variety of papers in a cereal box cover.

Block Printing Every Day

05 Thursday Feb 2026

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So this is my goal for 2026. It is an ambitious one but I’m going to be gentle with myself about it. It is aspirational but I got a great start in January!

I’m having lots of fun exploring the blocks I carved in December and older blocks as well. I have even carved a few new ones, some of them inspired by the Zentangle Fragments of Your Imagination January challenge. I love to use Zentangle patterns as inspiration for my blocks. This one is my favorite.

I used a block printed mandala using some of these Zentangle fragment blocks as the pattern for a screen printing class I took at Polka Press and here’s some napkins and tshirts that are the result!

I printed a cover for the paper bag art journal I used to capture my Carve December work.

Here are individual photos of some of my favorites.

Making art is a form of self care for me. I think it is also a form of resistance against evils such as fascism. I’m surrounding Minneapolis with Love & Love & Love. Let’s make something beautiful today.

Year in Review 2025

12 Monday Jan 2026

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What a year I had! April held two significant milestones. My art was published in a magazine for the first time! My pattern designs were published in the 6th Surface Pattern Design Guide published by UPPERCASE Magazine.

I also had a solo exhibition in April at the Art Hub in Cambridge. The reception was on Friday, April 4. I sold 4 pieces at the opening.

SOLD!

I taught a number of Zentangle and Art Journaling classes at the Art Hub and for my Unitarian Universalist congregation fundraiser.

For the first time, ever, I was a presenter at an online art festival, Block Printing Fest in October! It was very challenging and even more fun and rewarding.

I finished many small works of art and 2 very large ones. Spring Metta Mediation has been exhibited at UW Hospital and Diversity and Inclusion will be exhibited there in summer of 2026. I had art in a few galleries and exhibited other pieces at the hospital and various venues throughout the year.

In May I gave art fairs a last shot and confirmed that this is not for me. I was in the Madison Art Guild tent at the Middleton Art Walk.

I got a variety of notecards and other printed materials at 2 locations, the Art Hub in Cambridge, WI and the Madison Art Market at 5944 Odana Road in Madison, WI. Coming soon, Madison Art Market will have print on demand products with my art available on their website. I added a lot of new art to my print on demand page on Fine Art America. My art on puzzles was a particular favorite this year.

I also participated in a number of Instagram challenges and became obsessed with paper bag art journals to capture my results. I participated in Figment of Your Imagination in January and created a mandala using Zentangle fragments over the course of the month. The 100 day challenge has been a favorite of mine for years. It really allows me to explore something in depth. This year I had some health challenges and didn’t participate as regularly as I have in the past but I tried to make some art every day. It allowed me to complete the Spring Metta Meditation piece. I also participated in the Index Card a Day challenge in June and July and it led to the piece Diversity and Inclusion. It is a mandala that I cut up into index card shaped pieces and worked on them individually. October brings Print Inktober and I created my first paper bag book to capture all the fun Zentangle and block printed things I created that month. I closed off the year with my favorite challenge, Carve December. I carved more than 60 blocks and created another paper bag journal to document that journey.

Carve December Creativity

03 Saturday Jan 2026

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I carved more than 60 blocks in December. The picture above is missing most of the words I carved. They are posted below. Carve December is an Instagram challenge that helps me in the darkest time of the year. It has been the best medicine for my seasonal affective disorder ever! I’m really excited for this first version of a new, big torus mandala that I designed over the course of the month (below).

I wasn’t happy with one of the new blocks and used an old favorite that I’m still working to redesign. Here’s a gallery of the blocks I carved and the photos I posted on Instagram.

I made another paper bag art journal to capture all the fun blocks I carved and to keep a record of them all together. Now that I have completed 5 years of this challenge I want to be a little more organized about the hundreds of blocks I have! I will post a video of the flip through on Instagram.

Wishing you peace, good health and happiness in the new year!

Carve December Part 1

14 Sunday Dec 2025

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I love Carve December! It is an Instagram challenge started and hosted by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer of Balzer Designs. She provides prompts for each day of the month and people carve stamps (blocks) inspired by those prompts, or whatever. I have generally been one of the “whatever” carvers but this year I am following the prompts and having a lot of fun with it. I am curious if you can guess what the prompts might be based on what I carved. I would love it if you would leave a comment with your ideas.

I have made another paper bag art journal to capture all of the printed goodness.

Happy holidays!

Classes for Winter 2026

25 Tuesday Nov 2025

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I will be teaching classes at the Art Hub in Cambridge, Wisconsin again this coming winter. Come in out of the cold and have some fun. The new schedule will be available soon. Keep an eye out here and on Instagram for updates.

I’m going to be teaching a grid art journaling class on Saturday, February 7th from 1-4, a Zentangle class on Friday, March 20 from 6-8 and how to make paper bag art journals on Saturday, April 25 from 1-4. My last post has an overview of my paper bag journal that I made for all my October activities. I have already made one to get ready for Carve December! I’m really loving this kind of journal.

Last Saturday I had a great Zentangle class at the Art Hub. We explored the tangle pattern crescent moon and played with flower options to create our own unique variations. Here is the mosaic from the class.