Art For Kids

I'm pleased to share "Migration" is included in "Forma Natura: Nature as Source," an Arts Benicia exhibition at 1 Commandant's Lane, Benicia, from January 25 to March 2, 2025. Juried by Alicia Escott, the show features artists' representations of the natural world.

Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting From Yirrkala at the Asia Society in NY, NY. These paintings are made by the Yolngu people on eucalyptus bark from stone ground ochre pigments using human hair brushes.

This summer, my sister Kathy and I visited Norway. Our mother, who grew up there, emigrated to the U.S. in 1945 after the Nazi occupation. Our family spoke Norwegian and we grew up assuming everyone loved brown cheese and marinated herring.

During a recent trip to Hawaii, where natural wonders abound, I was inspired by the Ahihi Cove lava formations to explore rock printing. I came across this technique in an article by Elena Court in the Nature Printing Society newsletter, who generously shared tips and gifted me two sheets of Okawara paper.

The ostrich chapter from the Scrapbook of Endangered and Extinct Birds is included in “Kinship With Birds in Flight and Plight,” an online exhibition available here through January 31, 2024.

I’m honored my work is included in two midwest exhibitions
and is on consignment at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts

Paradise Drive, a handmade book combining my paintings
and Rebecca Foust’s poems is exhibited in

The Peninsula Museum of Art is located in Space 204 on the upper level of the Tanforan Shopping Center, above the food court and just around the corner from the movie theater box office. Bart accessible. Best parking is on the 3rd level of the North / Cinema parking structure.

I am showing Paradise Drive, an original book adapted to print, broadside, ebook, video and electronic game in Books Against the Wall at the Peninsula Museum of Art.

The award plaque series presents concepts worthy of consideration using the structure of the shield-shaped, wall mounted trophy. A recent addition, COVID, acknowledges the disruption and devastation of the pandemic.

I highly recommend two recent books focused on our relationship with the natural world:
becoming—Feral, words and images exploring beasts and EcoArt in Action, a compilation of solutions to environmental challenges. I'm honored my work is included in both publications.

I'm honored to be included in three exhibitions from Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss, an international art project seeking to provoke change by exposing the negative consequences of exhausting natural resources.

My Scrapbook of Endangered and Extinct Birds is included in Reclamation: Artists' Books on the Environment.

“Winter Winds” is included in Traces at the Village Theater Art Gallery in Danville. Thanks to Marija Bleier, Visual Arts Coordinator, for mounting a compelling exhibition of work by Women Eco Artists Dialog members.

Thanks to YoloArts for prompting this video of Huia: A Story of Extinction.