BIO
In my current artwork, I have been exploring the carbon cycle, the planetary process that underlies both our climate system and all of life. I’ve been experimenting with hand-drawn, science-based images and animation sequences that explore how carbon moves through natural systems via photosynthesis, carbon cycling in the ocean (e.g., through plankton, krill, whales), exchange of carbon and oxygen through trees; even the human breath and our own bodies—all phenomena that we can’t see without an imaginative assist because they’re too big, too small, too slow, too fast, or too far away from us in space or in time to actually perceive directly.
My earlier figurative work, primarily drawing and painting on paper and small painted sculpture, has explored human characters and human emotion.
I am also a policy professional and strategic communicator whose work has focused primarily on support for low income children and families, and more recently on the environment. I live and work in Seattle, Washington.
WORK
VIDEO/ANIMATION
2015 “Carbon Meditation/Returning to Balance,” 5-minute hand-drawn animated video
https://vimeo.com/129693978
SHOWN:
MoPop, Museum of Pop Culture, Seattle, WA, Creativity Camps for Kids, Summer 2017
Lincoln Options Elementary School, grades 4-5, Olympia, WA, June 11, 2016
Living Future UnConference keynote session, Seattle Westin Hotel, WA, May 13, 2016
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Seattle, WA, “You Discuss It: Climate Change” panel, March 2, 2016
Cascadia Climate Collaborative Retreat, Whidbey Institute, April 2015
2014 “Biocarbon: Mobilizing the Power of Nature to Restore Our Climate,” 7.5 minute hand-drawn animated video,
Created pro bono for Climate Solutions, Seattle, WA,
http://climatesolutions.org/programs/nbi/biocarbon-video
SHOWN:
21 Acres Center for Sustainable Living, harvest festival, Woodinville, WA, September 24, 2016
Science Cafe, “The Art of Explaining Science,” Olympia, WA, September 13, 2016
PAINTING, DRAWING, SCULPTURE
Solo Exhibitions
2019 (Upcoming) Carbon Storylines II. Seward Park Audubon Center, Seattle, Washington
2018 Carbon Storylines. University of Washington Botanic Garden, Elizabeth C. Miller Library,
Center for Urban Horticulture, Seattle, Washington
2007 Imagined Men. Edmonds Community College, Edmonds, Washington
Group Exhibitions
2018 (Upcoming) Surge, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, Washington
(co-sponsored by Skagit Climate Consortium)
2015 Invited images for Cascadia Climate Collaborative conference, Whidbey Institute, Clinton, WA
2013 First Light, Inaugural regional exhibition for opening of Bainbridge Island Museum of Art,
Bainbridge Island, WA. Juror: Barbara Earl Thomas
2000 California Works, California State Fair, Sacramento, California. Award of Merit.
Juror: Patricia Wall, Professor of Art, Cosumnes River College
2000 Yosemite Renaissance XV, Yosemite Museum, Yosemite National Park, California.
Jurors: Harvey Jones, Senior Curator, Oakland Museum of California, and Roger C. Birt, Professor of
Humanities, San Francisco State University
1999 California Small Works 1999, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, California. Judge's award.
Juror: John Natsoulas, Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
1997 Watermarks, benefit for the Nature Conservancy's Cosumnes River Preserve, Sacramento, California
1997 Phoenix, Sacramento Arts Commission, Sacramento, California
1996 Phoenix, Sacramento Arts Commission, Sacramento, California
1995 Death and Transformation, Phantom Galleries/Sacramento Women Artists and
Writers, Sacramento, California
RESIDENCIES
PLAYA, Summer Lake, OR, July 2-13, 2018
Centrum, Port Townsend, WA, November 21-30, 2011
Centrum, Port Townsend, WA, September 20-29, 2009
EDUCATION
1995 UC Davis Summer Certificate in Painting and Drawing
(with Cornelia Shultz and Margaret Harrison)
1987 Master of Public Affairs, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, Austin
Claudia Taylor Johnson Fellow, 1985-1987
1981 A.B., University of California, Berkeley, with Honors in History
In my current artwork, I have been exploring the carbon cycle, the planetary process that underlies both our climate system and all of life. I’ve been experimenting with hand-drawn, science-based images and animation sequences that explore how carbon moves through natural systems via photosynthesis, carbon cycling in the ocean (e.g., through plankton, krill, whales), exchange of carbon and oxygen through trees; even the human breath and our own bodies—all phenomena that we can’t see without an imaginative assist because they’re too big, too small, too slow, too fast, or too far away from us in space or in time to actually perceive directly.
My earlier figurative work, primarily drawing and painting on paper and small painted sculpture, has explored human characters and human emotion.
I am also a policy professional and strategic communicator whose work has focused primarily on support for low income children and families, and more recently on the environment. I live and work in Seattle, Washington.
WORK
VIDEO/ANIMATION
2015 “Carbon Meditation/Returning to Balance,” 5-minute hand-drawn animated video
https://vimeo.com/129693978
SHOWN:
MoPop, Museum of Pop Culture, Seattle, WA, Creativity Camps for Kids, Summer 2017
Lincoln Options Elementary School, grades 4-5, Olympia, WA, June 11, 2016
Living Future UnConference keynote session, Seattle Westin Hotel, WA, May 13, 2016
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Seattle, WA, “You Discuss It: Climate Change” panel, March 2, 2016
Cascadia Climate Collaborative Retreat, Whidbey Institute, April 2015
2014 “Biocarbon: Mobilizing the Power of Nature to Restore Our Climate,” 7.5 minute hand-drawn animated video,
Created pro bono for Climate Solutions, Seattle, WA,
http://climatesolutions.org/programs/nbi/biocarbon-video
SHOWN:
21 Acres Center for Sustainable Living, harvest festival, Woodinville, WA, September 24, 2016
Science Cafe, “The Art of Explaining Science,” Olympia, WA, September 13, 2016
PAINTING, DRAWING, SCULPTURE
Solo Exhibitions
2019 (Upcoming) Carbon Storylines II. Seward Park Audubon Center, Seattle, Washington
2018 Carbon Storylines. University of Washington Botanic Garden, Elizabeth C. Miller Library,
Center for Urban Horticulture, Seattle, Washington
2007 Imagined Men. Edmonds Community College, Edmonds, Washington
Group Exhibitions
2018 (Upcoming) Surge, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, Washington
(co-sponsored by Skagit Climate Consortium)
2015 Invited images for Cascadia Climate Collaborative conference, Whidbey Institute, Clinton, WA
2013 First Light, Inaugural regional exhibition for opening of Bainbridge Island Museum of Art,
Bainbridge Island, WA. Juror: Barbara Earl Thomas
2000 California Works, California State Fair, Sacramento, California. Award of Merit.
Juror: Patricia Wall, Professor of Art, Cosumnes River College
2000 Yosemite Renaissance XV, Yosemite Museum, Yosemite National Park, California.
Jurors: Harvey Jones, Senior Curator, Oakland Museum of California, and Roger C. Birt, Professor of
Humanities, San Francisco State University
1999 California Small Works 1999, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, California. Judge's award.
Juror: John Natsoulas, Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
1997 Watermarks, benefit for the Nature Conservancy's Cosumnes River Preserve, Sacramento, California
1997 Phoenix, Sacramento Arts Commission, Sacramento, California
1996 Phoenix, Sacramento Arts Commission, Sacramento, California
1995 Death and Transformation, Phantom Galleries/Sacramento Women Artists and
Writers, Sacramento, California
RESIDENCIES
PLAYA, Summer Lake, OR, July 2-13, 2018
Centrum, Port Townsend, WA, November 21-30, 2011
Centrum, Port Townsend, WA, September 20-29, 2009
EDUCATION
1995 UC Davis Summer Certificate in Painting and Drawing
(with Cornelia Shultz and Margaret Harrison)
1987 Master of Public Affairs, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, Austin
Claudia Taylor Johnson Fellow, 1985-1987
1981 A.B., University of California, Berkeley, with Honors in History