Artist-Organizer

I pull from a unique set of skills in working as a community-engaged artist. My backgrounds in graphic design, community organizing, art education, and story collection all find a use in the projects I take on. My degrees in fine art, social work, and environmental studies have supported me in this uncommon career path, through classrooms, cafés, public parks, town halls, national forests, museums, and more. I’m an artist-organizer working at the intersection of creativity, social movements, oral history, and public space.

*Salamander Stink and the Haunted Handshake* | Laramie, WY 2020

Making public art through story collection, collaboration, and community

In 2020 I worked with Laramie Public Art Coalition and a group of four local nonprofits to design and complete a community-guided mural in LaBonte Park. The mural covers the skatepark’s full-pipe and includes imagery taken from Laramie’s collective memory of the area. Ideas for images were gathered through story collection in an online form and series of outdoor listening sessions, while draft designs received critiques from the four nonprofits. In this way the mural was rooted in a community-centered creative process which moved from learning and listening, to drafting and revising, to installing and completing. The project culminated with an outdoor celebration that fall.

Murals, banners, and more coming soon…

Below are several other public art projects and events that I’ve been involved in through the Nicolaysen Art Museum, Jackson Hole Center for the Arts, University of Wyoming Art Museum, and Laramie Public Art Coalition. Looking forward to participating in more public art opportunities slated for 2025.

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