Art to Empower: Article in Street Vibes


Thank you Saad Ghosn for including me in your Artist as Activist column in the March issue of Street Vibes Magazine. Streetvibes is a street newspaper that provides relevant discussion of homelessness, poverty, and other related social justice issues. To learn more about Street Vibes follow this link http://streetvibes.wordpress.com/program/
photo by Saad Ghosn

Building blocks and Artist Talk

Thank you Melanie Hart the K – 3 Visual Art instructor at the School for Creative and Performing Arts for inviting me to talk with your first grade class this school year. Prior to my visit, the class was learning about Pablo Picasso and other cubist painters. Melanie’s students were working on a cubism-inspired cityscape. She asked if I would share with the kids my work and the inspiration behind it. The work looks great class!
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“Chocolat” at Prairie


Thank you Brian Joiner for inviting to be apart of your league of creative visionaries in the Chocolate Exhibition at Prairie Gallery. Once again you challenged me to not only think outside the box but to pull from the sensuality that the subject matter(chocolate) already evokes to the senses. Along with the work of Gustav Klimpt and Alphonse Mucha you have once again inspired me.  A portion of proceeds from the exhibition’s sales benefit the Taft Museum of Art’s Duncanson Society.
Follow these links to other articles written about the show
http://www.aeqai.com/articles/012011a.htm
http://www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/article-22196-the-posthumously-working-artist.html

Gallery Swarm Exhibition


I very happy to announce my return to Chicago with my latest exhibition at Gallery Swarm with native Chicago artist James Schneider. The Opening Reception is January 21st and the exhibition will continue through February 13th.

In the Wing for One Day

December 4th of 2010, I was apart of the Holiday Extravaganza event at the Cincinnati Art Museum called Magical Music. I engaged Museumgoers about my work and its relation to music. For one day I can say that I was in the Cincinnati Wing of the Cincinnati Art Museum.

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