Works in progress, where I share what I'm working on and what I'm thinking about, and also show my Instagram feed.

Thanks to everyone who came to Hot Shops over the weekend. I had some great conversations about art and life and helped a few pieces find new homes. Happy holidays to everyone and warm wishes for restful, peaceful and love-filled days ahead.

Back for day 2 of the @hotshopsartcenter open house 11-5 today. This piece -- Lunar Phases and Growth Stages, pages 10 and 11 -- is part of a series of paintings finished earlier this year. There are references to prairie, to seasonal cycles, to find

The ornament woodcuts are out for the season! I have three that are framed, but all these unframed handmade prints are also available in the studio this weekend. I'm still quite fond of the images with barbed wire, as they reflect a time when the hol

The studio is nearly ready for visitors to the @hotshopsartcenter open house this weekend. Most of the paintings from my recent solo show “Weirder, Wilder, Witchier” are hung along with one of the “incantations without words”

Please join me and all the @hotshopsartcenter artists for our biggest event of the year -- the December open house. I'll have my second-floor studio open both days and hope to see many visitors. I'll have most of the pieces from "Weirder, Wilder

Hey, All. I'm enough of a Plains person that I'm confident I could get out and about if I had to, and I'm also glad that @mingtoygallery and I agreed it makes sense to shift the last day of "Weirder, Wilder, Witchier" to tomorrow given curr

Inspiration/Research

April 2, 2017

Attending the "Flat Places: Deep Identities" symposium hosted by the Center for Great Plains Studies allowed me to learn from ecologists, geologists, writers, poets, photographers, film-makers, theologists and cartographers of all kinds. My mind is still swimming with the conversations and ideas that emerged. It's so good to get out of the studio periodically to learn about what other people are working on. I'll be able to more deeply consider some of the emerging possibilities as I drive between home and Milwaukee to pick up art from the Walker's Point Center for the Arts exhibit of Midwest Artist Studios project members.