Hometown: ATL
Currently Resides: Minneapolis, MN
Current full-time: Visiting Artist-Design Faculty: Minneapolis College of Art and Design, wife, aunt, daughter, animal lover, multi-tasker, maker.
Current part-time: graphic designer, artist, seamstress, illustrator, animator, hobo pyramid champion.
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My interests in design lie within the social and collaborative aspects inherent in the field as well as the philosophy that form partners with content in spirit and expression. My work is based in storytelling, functionality, the hand-made, and the tactile. I'm fascinated by the boundaries between art and commerce, yet am thrilled by the contemporary focus on work that is communal vs. proprietary.
My passion for design, retail branding, fashion, the arts, and education have allowed me to work in a full spectrum of professional environments, from ad agencies, boutique studios, in-house creative departments, to academia. My work has been recognized by Print, Communication Arts, Graphis, I.D., HOW, Step Inside Design, LogoLounge, Type Director's Club, and The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design. Some of my favorite clients have been the printmaker Jenny Schmid, shopbop.com, Jimmy John's, Levi's, Minnesota Center for Photography, PunchStock, Dick & Jane, Suzanne Rubin Styling, Minneapolis Collage of Art and Design, Studio on Fire, University of Minnesota Art Department, Lake Street Productions, Little Earth of United Tribes Minnesota, and The University of Arizona Museum of Visual Art & Archives.
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