On November 6th, I participated in a fundraising event titled "Raw Draw" at the Neu Kirche Contemporary Art Center in Pittsburgh. Over 40 artists from the area were invited to participate in this event. Artists were given roughly 90 minutes to create a drawing on a 11"x14" sheet of paper. Those drawings were then auctioned... Continue Reading →

During the Fall 2015 semester, we organized a student print exchange with University of Akron Printmakers and Professor of Art Charles Beneke. Although I only have a few pictures of the portfolio, everyone really made some fantastic work. All images are 11″x15″. The entire portfolio will go into their printmaking program print archives and a... Continue Reading →

Today I hosted my comics workshop for West Virginia art educators at the annual WVAEA Conference in Morgantown. WVU Art Education professor Dr. Terese Giobbia organized the conference, the second conference the WVU School of Art and Design has hosted in two weeks! 10 art teachers representing grades k-12 and higher education participated in a... Continue Reading →

On Oct. 23 West Virginia University School of Art and Design faculty held an exhibition during the 2015 SECAC Conference in Pittsburgh. "CONJUNCTION" is the culmination of over 2 years of projects between WVU faculty and Artists Image Resource. Since 2013, all fifteen WVU studio faculty traveled to Pittsburgh to work with the wonderful printmakers... Continue Reading →

This week we were lucky to have Pittsburgh based artist John Pena as a visiting artist. Lately, Pena has become most known for his daily autobiographical comic "Daily Geology". Most of the exhibition is roughly six months of his daily drawings wrapped around the gallery... The actual drawings look COMPLETELY different from the way they... Continue Reading →

This semester I am teaching the Graduate Seminar class for the School of Art and Design. This class is designed for all of our grads to take, MFA and MA, and is centered around a theme. My theme this semester is "Conversations". Every student is required to invite an interesting person to talk with our... Continue Reading →

Today I finished installing the latest iteration of my "Comic Configurations" exhibition at Fairmont State University. The exhibition will be up from Sept. 21 to Oct. 16th. I will be giving a talk about the history of comics and their relationship to contemporary art on Sept. 30 at 6pm. Jeremy Entwistle giving me a much... Continue Reading →

Today was one of those days when I was able to spend the day in one of my new favorite places to be...Pittsburgh! I am continually surprised by what this city has to offer. I had been anxious to go see the "Within/Without" exhibition at Unsmoke Systems and to see the new Directangle Press. My... Continue Reading →

Today, I gave a presentation to students at Notre Dame High School in San Jose. Chris Johnson asked if I would spend an hour or so with his students and talk about my work and contemporary printmaking over Facetime. To be honest, I was a little nervous, because talking to a group of High School... Continue Reading →

I am very excited to be a part of the upcoming exhibition: "UNBOUND: Contemporary Prints Inspired by Books" at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University. My work will be alongside some really great artists: Nancy Jo Haselbacher, Jason Urban, Justin Quinn, and Lesley Dill. From their website: Exhibition curator Jennifer D. Anderson writes, “Many... Continue Reading →