When my nerves are frayed and it feels like the social fabric is unravelling I feel the urge to amend the situation, often by actual mending. These hands do much less flailing when they’re taking up…

​ For the second year in a row, I’ve been leading artists’ talks as part of the Eastside Culture Crawl . One of the three Talking Art panels this year took on the wooly business of trying to live…

Click HERE for a 10-minute journey through the methods and motivations behind this MFA thesis. (Film made by Ana Valine, Rodeo Queen Pictures , August 2020)

Where is the joy when you’re living in a time of a global coronavirus pandemic and a local toxic-drug epidemic? What is the use of making when your city is seized by global investment-real estate…

We who turn to rote hand-making activity to quell our anxiety have been knitting, sewing, embroidering, crocheting and needleworking up a storm. My go-to, like countless others stuck at home, is…

In the final critique of my final work in this second-to-final semester of graduate studies, I could see that there was going to be trouble.

I have this idea for building healthy community in this pretty/cold city through hand-making. It’s a process of making peace with ourselves and connecting with others, transforming individualized…

About a decade ago I stumbled across Latvian-American mathematician Daina Taimina’s curious crochet abstractions. What’s not to love about needlecraft (and needlecrafters) that advances modeling…

Back when I was still transitioning from workaday newspaper editor to mainly work-for-free artist I applied for a Nexus card. “Whaddaya you do for a living?” asks the clerk in her American drawl,…

Everyone is feeling that relentless creep of plastic that is threatening to consume us, the consumers.  I felt myself drowning in the tsunami of stuff over this past year of grad studies at Emily…