I met my new friend Butch Anthony last month in Florence Alabama while working with the lovely Natalie Chanin of Alabama Chanin. An invitation was extended to come visit Seale, AL where he is based a...
Most people dont know that working for a wedding photographer was one of my first paid creative jobs. For various reasons these days I shoot very few weddings but when my old friend Lauren invited me...
Please take note that tomorrow is Makeal Flamminis opening at Sky High Gallery "The Bricks Are Dipped In Marble Dust". Even if I didnt curate the show myself I wouldnt miss it for the world. ...
I had no clue there was a "quad cities" in Alabama. Or that my destination Florence was 1/4 of it (the other 3 being Muscle Shoals, Sheffield and Tuscumbia.) I was flying into Muscle Shoals t...
"You must not know much about coon hunters and their dogs, if you think we would contaminate this burial place with poodles and lap dogs" -Key Underwood, the founder of the Coon Dog Cemetery ...
Sometimes your best friend makes something so radical you want to tell the world. Director Sam Macon works non-stop like no one else Ive met. I couldnt ask for a better collaborator and seeing his mo...
Im off in mere moments to fly to Florence, Alabama. Who knew it would take THREE airplanes to get there. I am really excited to be the visiting artist with the inspiring Alabama Chanin. The only catc...
I dont think anyone actually noticed but we took off almost 4 months over at the gallery post-holiday season. Im trying this new thing in my life which is attempting to not overbook myself. Attemptin...
Its Monday mid-day and I just caught wind of this story that gave me the chills. Instead of paraphrasing the news the following has been lifted from the Pussy Riot website that I highly urge you visi...
Aaron and I rarely get to travel for a full week together, and in this case it was two. Its one of the negatives of owning your own business, not getting to leave for extended amounts of time. Since ...
February, you existed? I hardly noticed.A mini length month filled with Sign Painter book edits, writing the foreward for a book to be published by Smithsonian Books (August 2012), making work for Sl...
From me to you from the archives for Valentines day.Milwaukee, WI Neighbors Gallery (RIP) February 2007Los Angeles, CA July 2008Pittsburgh, PA April 2007
Nothing like a cashing in some frequent flyer miles to go warm up and unwind for a few days. My mom rents a beach cottage every winter to escape the Seattle gray. Lucky for me she just happen to ment...
A recap of 2011 seems like just another thing on the "to do" list but if it doesnt happen today, it never will. I feel like this year I was busier than ever although I think I traveled less t...
This month flew by like the rest. Im spending the next 5 days wrapping things up at the Gallery. You may want to take advantage of this sale if your in the neighborhood we have a lot of beautiful thi...
Normally, I post about Sky High business over on the gallery blog, but Im trying to stay focused on the pop-up shop through the end of the season over there so I decided to post this here.For those o...
Its official. Weve been sitting on this news for a bit- but you always have to wait until the paper work is signed to announce exciting news so you dont jinx yourself. Princeton Architectural Press w...
For the past 5 years, maybe 6 even, I have been lucky enough to get my hands on the very limited Leif Goldberg calendars and bring them to Milwaukee.If your not already familiar with Leifs silk scree...
Friday night was the kick-off party for Decembers pop-up shop in the gallery space. Ill be spending the entire month as shopkeeper if you want to swing by.Check out the full post over on the gallery ...
I know I said I wasnt going to post until after this weekends Art vs. Craft madness, but I wasnt expecting to get the first interview with Seattle based artist Stacey Rozich whos illustrations define...
As my life seems to go in waves of really busy to mega busy, currently I am finding myself nearly in over my head. But, Im an expert at rolling with it, 2 months will pass & Ill look back and thi...
Wikipedia explains poor farms as "country or town-run residences where paupers (mainly elderly and disabled people) were supported at public expense".The poor farm I went to this past Sunday ...
Best holiday of the year. Best city to spend it in. Milwaukee you prove yet again that this is home,where I am supposed to be.Designed by Kim Krans.Getting ready.My ALL SEEING costume inspired by Mic...
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WITCH is an all-woman everything.Its theater revolution, magic, terror, joy, garlic, flowers, spells.Its awareness that witches and gypsies were the original guerrillas and resistance fighters agains...
Since my last blog post which was shockingly (to me) just under a month ago Ive been moving non-stop. I guess thats pretty usual in my world, but normally I dont go on a two week trip where I am cond...
Two years ago in November when the leaves had already fallen in North Carolina I took my first trip to visit my friends who live off the grid, up a treacherous winding dirt road on the top of a mount...
Ive worked with San Francisco based artist Catherine Ryan in some capacity since 2006, or at least thats what we decided when we finally met this past week here in Milwaukee. We sold her work at my o...
I just spent the past 3+ hours updating the gallery site & cant bear to sit here any longer. But there is so much to share about events Ive seen in Milwaukee, my trip to New York last week where ...
My new neighbors in Milwaukee couldnt be better. If you are a lady who likes fancy things and dont know about Bona Drag, you are in for a treat. Be prepared to bookmark and drool over many many fanta...
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