I also translate these themes into curriculum through project-based assignments and connect with communities through events that promote literacy.
Recently, at Queens College
Portrait: Person and Place, 2024
Select undergraduate Illustration II/Illustration Portfolio illustrations for a non-linear narrative portrait project on the intersection of identity and place. The full series of 19 pieces will be placed on long-term public display in Queens Hall, scheduled for November 2024. Images © the individual artists.
Home Is: Illustrating Objects of Memory, 2024
Select undergraduate Illustration II/Illustration Portfolio illustrations, created for a project that explores the question, ‘What is home?’ through layers of meaning in a single “memory object.” The full series of 20 pieces is on long-term public display in the Linguistics Department. Images © the individual artists.
Theatrical Composition and Gesture for Illustrators, 2023–2024
In-class workshop developed with theatre director Kelly O‘Donnell, designed to connect the language of narrative across disciplines. Featuring actors Imani Pearl Williams and Kelly Letournou.
Previous imagination-focused workshops/courses
Active Imagination: Ideation Process for Creatives
Minneapolis College of Art and Design Continuing Education (MCAD), Spring 2022/Fall 2023
This remote, five-week course introduces a world-building process grounded in imagination, memory, and dream. A range of nontraditional exercises in a supportive environment encourages students to consider deep focus and empathetic observation as daily tools of making, in order to deepen their existing creative practice. The heart of this technique is a deep focus exercise the group practices together during class meetings. In the final week students are encouraged to take steps to develop new work directly from the technique, in the creative discipline of their choice.
Active Imagination for Visual Storytellers
City Artists Corps grant, 2021
This grant-funded mini-workshop focused on using dream content to develop a catalogue of personally meaningful creative material for use in personal and professional work.
Community engagement
“Scout Camp” Music and Live-Drawing Event
Channel 3 Kids Camp, 2019
Sponsored by Scholastic, this event brought the characters of the Bobs and Tweets book series to life through an interactive concert of original songs by The Bonefish Band, directed by Kelly O’Donnell, and live drawing (my job) at an inclusive camp facility in Andover, CT.