Artist Statement

In the middle of projects with unlikely odds for financial gain, a cartoon idea might pop up – I ignore its taunts (I’ll show you unlikely odds!) and go where it leads.

Education:
BFA, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH

Experience:

• Hallmark Artist, 28 years
• Freelance Artist: New York Times; Happy Bottoms’ Butt Sketch Artist; Travel Channel’s Dead Files sketch artist
• Art teacher, Kansas City Art Institute
• Tutor for learners with dyslexia, LexiAbility
• Direct Service Provider for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) at l’Arche Heartland in Overland Park, KS

Local exhibitions through ArtsKC Now Showing include:

• Rx for a Pandemic, KCUR Studio
• Longhairs at Valorem Reply
• Parisi Cafe at Union Station
• 1111 Main

Exhibitions through the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, KC, MO:

• Buck O’Neil: Right on Time
• Shades of Greatness, an ongoing educational outreach of the NLBM, exhibited at Louisville Slugger Museum (KY)
• Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY
• Two of my works are now part of the NLBM permanent collection.