I live and work in Seattle, WA. Much of my art focuses on the impact of travel and the importance place and history play in our ideas, views and memories. I spent two years in Kazakhstan working in the US Peace Corps, an experience often reflected in my art. I sometimes use humor and irony of the mundane, and sometimes not so mundane, in my art to reflect on the world. My work tends to have an illustrative quality, and I work primarily in water color and sumi ink. 

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Artist Resume​​

  

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Projects, Publications + Recognitions​

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• A Five Finger Feast ​featured on "Travel with Rick Steves" radio show (recorded April 2024, Episode 764 aired on NPR August 17, 2024)

• The Moritz Thomsen Book Award for A Five Finger Feast, best book about the Peace Corps experience published in 2022, Peace Corps Worldwide, Oakland, CA (Summer 2023)

• A Five Finger Feast reviewed on PeaceCorpsWorldwide.org and Piqosity.com (2022)

• A Five Finger Feast: Two Years in Kazakhstan, Lessons from the Peace Corps, author + illustrator (Peace Corps Writers, Published May 2022)​

• Khan! A Graphic Novel; author + illustrator (2019-present)

• Emerald City’s Playground: An Illustrated Guide to Seattle’s Parks; author + illustrator (2018-present)

• ​Artist profile featured in The Review, Phinney Ridge’s newspaper, Seattle, WA (Summer 2015)

• Em2; a book on mindful living, author J. Casey, illustrator Tim Suchsland (Commissioned 2014, publish date TBD)

• The World's Geo Quiz: "In this city, you can see a presidential palace in one direction and the largest tent in the world in the other" (Interview, 2013)

• Returned Peace Corps Volunteer profile featured at PeaceCorps.gov (2024)

• Co-Editor of Peace Corps Kazakhstan's Volunteer News Vesti (2008-2009)

• Alumni profile featured by the UNR History Department (2023)

• Richard + Sharon Davies Senior Thesis Award for “Twist + Shout: Class, Culture + the Beatles in Post-War Britain”​ (2007)​

• ​​​​Travel blog at GoTravelopolis.wordpress.com​