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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 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).

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.

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.

100 Day Project and Upcoming Zentangle Class

24 Tuesday Feb 2026

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Today is day 2 of the 100 day project. I have started off printing on very old papers. I love the November 1878 issue of Demorest’s Monthly Magazine. I’m also printing on pages from an old dictionary and a geography book from 1901.

“The 100 Day Project is a free, global art project built around one simple idea: show up to your creative practice every day for 100 days. Anyone can participate! Subscribe to receive updates and daily creative prompts.”

Since I am doing a 365 day project this year I am absorbing the 100 day project into it. There is a sense of community that helps maintain enthusiasm for a longer project. I still have lots of ideas for my 365 day project and am going strong. I will do a blog post about February in the beginning of March. For today I just wanted to share my first 2 days of the 100 day project.

I am teaching a Zentangle class at the Art Hub in Cambridge, WI on Friday, March 20th. Register here. We will use the pattern called “C Knots” as the focal point for our piece. Here is an example

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!