Detail

Detail

Filter With the Moment

2010 KU Art Scholarship Show
backstrap loom, cigarette butts, intaglio prints, photographs, brocade, supplemental warp, wood-fired stoneware, hand-made mosaic table, artist's urine, onion skins, hemp, wool, cotton, lamp, metal bucket, red bud sapling, Quikrete

Rebirth of Biocentric Interconnectedness
2011
12'x10'x10'
fallen tree limbs, hemp yarn

Rebirth of Biocentric Interconnectedness
2011
12'x10'x10'
fallen tree limbs, hemp yarn

Rebirth of Biocentric Interconnectedness
2011
12'x10'x10'
fallen tree limbs, hemp yarn

Re-Rebirth of Biocentric Interconnectedness
2011
20'x15'x15'
fallen tree limbs, hemp yarn

Re-Rebirth of Biocentric Interconnectedness
2011
20'x15'x15'
fallen tree limbs, hemp yarn

Re-Rebirth of Biocentric Interconnectedness
2011
20'x15'x15'
fallen tree limbs, hemp yarn

Earthway Studio

Artist's Sketchbook
2011
Photograph by Neil Goss

Earthway Studio

Dye Pots (cochineal)
2011
10'x7'x7'
University of Kansas Campus
fallen tree limbs, the Earth, hemp rope, hand dug clay, 115 yards of hand woven naturally dyed hemp strips
Photograph by Neil Goss

Earthway Studio

2011
Photograph by Chuck France

Artist Portrait

In front of the finished installation in Brooklyn, NY
Photo by Monica Melhem
2013

Completed Installation

Without Land, We Must Grow Up, Not Out
Brooklyn, NY
2013

The Sky is the Limit

April 2014
Lemon's Park in Pratt, KS
hemp yarn, hemp rope, indigo, wood-fired stoneware, passionflower
20' x 2' x 2'

The Sky is the Limit

April 2014
Lemon's Park in Pratt, KS
hemp yarn, hemp rope, indigo, wood-fired stoneware, passionflower
20' x 2' x 2'

The Sky is the Limit

April 2014
Lemon's Park in Pratt, KS
hemp yarn, hemp rope, indigo, wood-fired stoneware, passionflower

These Are My Children (detail)

These Are My Children, I Intend on Making More
Art & Design Building, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2013
62 wood-fired ceramic busts

These Are My Children (detail)

These Are My Children, I Intend on Making More
Art & Design Building, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2013
62 wood-fired ceramic busts

These Are My Children, I Intend on Making More
Art & Design Building, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2013
62 wood-fired ceramic busts

Release the Spiders

Fall 2011
hand dug clay, north Lawrence soil, Ohio spiderwort seed

Release the Spiders

Summer 2012
hand dug clay, north Lawrence soil, Ohio spiderwort seed

Release the Spiders

Fall 2011
hand dug clay, north Lawrence soil, Ohio spiderwort seed

Suburban Sprawl

Spring 2012
time based ephemeral installation at the site of the late Earthway Studio
hand dug clay

Suburban Sprawl

Spring 2012
time based ephemeral installation at the site of the late Earthway Studio
hand dug clay

Suburban Sprawl

2012
time based ephemeral installation at the site of the late Earthway Studio
hand dug clay

America (detail)

America as a Throwaway Culture: My Art as a Throwaway Process
2012
University of Kansas School of the Arts Gallery
plaster mold, hand dug clay, porcelain, stoneware, wood fire, salt fire, gas reduction fire, pit fire, electric fired, unfired clay, hemp rope
Photo by Kristen Watson

America (detail)

America as a Throwaway Culture: My Art as a Throwaway Process
2012
University of Kansas School of the Arts Gallery
plaster mold, hand dug clay, porcelain, stoneware, wood fire, salt fire, gas reduction fire, pit fire, electric fired, unfired clay, hemp rope
Photo by Kristen Watson

America as a Throwaway Culture: My Art as a Throwaway Process
2012
University of Kansas School of the Arts Gallery
Photo by Kristen Watson

The Medicine Wheel (detail)

2012
6'x6'x6'
hemp yarn, Kansas native plant dyes, urine, wood-fired vessel, hand dug clay
Photo by Kristen Watson

The Medicine Wheel (detail)

2012
6'x6'x6'
hemp yarn, Kansas native plant dyes, urine, wood-fired vessel, hand dug clay
Photo by Kristen Watson

The Medicine Wheel

2012
hemp yarn, Kansas native plant dyes, urine, wood-fired vessel, hand dug clay
Photo by Kristen Watson

Homage to the Natural World (detail)

Homage to the Natural World: In Memory of the Western World
2011
20' x 6' x 6'
naturally dyed hemp, bamboo, hand dug clay, hemp rope, wool, wood fired stoneware
Photograph by Neil Goss

Homage to the Natural World (detail)

Homage to the Natural World: In Memory of the Western World
2011
20' x 6' x 6'
naturally dyed hemp, bamboo, hand dug clay, hemp rope, wool, wood fired stoneware
Photograph by Neil Goss

Homage to the Natural World: In Memory of the Western World
2011
20' x 6' x 6'
naturally dyed hemp, bamboo, hand dug clay, hemp rope, wool, wood fired stoneware
Photograph by Neil Goss

Invasive:Reflexivity (detail)

2011
8'x8'x3'
Final Fridays Hobbs Taylor Lofts Gallery
hemp warp, bamboo, catalpa pods, willow fronds, natural dyes, hemp rope, wood fired stoneware, hand dug clay
Photograph by Neil Goss

Invasive:Reflexivity (detail)

2011
8'x8'x3'
Final Fridays Hobbs Taylor Lofts Gallery
hemp warp, bamboo, catalpa pods, willow fronds, natural dyes, hemp rope, wood fired stoneware, hand dug clay
Photograph by Neil Goss

Invasive:Reflexivity

2011
8'x8'x3'
Hobbs Taylor Lofts Gallery
hemp warp, bamboo, catalpa pods, willow fronds, natural dyes, hemp rope, wood fired stoneware, hand dug clay

Primitive Paintings (detail)

2011
4.5' x 5.5'
hand woven hemp canvas, fallen tree limbs, natural dyes, hand dug clay, wool
Photograph by Neil Goss

Primitive Paintings (detail)

2011
4.5' x 5.5'
hand woven hemp canvas, fallen tree limbs, natural dyes, hand dug clay, wool
Photograph by Neil Goss

Primitive Paintings

2011
4.5' x 5.5'
hand woven hemp canvas, fallen tree limbs, natural dyes, hand dug clay, wool

America (detail)

America as a Throwaway Culture: My Art as an Ephemeral Process
2012
8'x10'x3'
hand woven hemp canvas, indigo, cochineal, onion skins, hand dug clay, wheel thrown hand dug clay, hemp yarn
Photograph by Mary Katherine Krim

America (detail)

America as a Throwaway Culture: My Art as an Ephemeral Process
2012
8'x10'x3'
hand woven hemp canvas, indigo, cochineal, onion skins, hand dug clay, wheel thrown hand dug clay, hemp yarn
Photograph by Neil Goss

America as a Throwaway Culture: My Art as an Ephemeral Process
2012
8'x10'x3'
Photograph by Mary Katherine Krim

Sacred Spaces (detail)

Solo Show at Plenum Space Gallery
Kansas City, MO
May Final Fridays 2013

Sacred Spaces (detail)

Solo Show at Plenum Space Gallery
Kansas City, MO
May Final Fridays 2013

Sacred Spaces : Reflecting Backward to Move Forward and Live in the Now
Solo Show at Plenum Space Gallery
Kansas City, MO
2013

The Dawn of Bio-Race-Centrism Series

We Are All Made of the Same Earth Stuff : The Human Race
hemp, wool, natural dyes, hand dug clay, wood-fired stoneware, fallen tree limbs, parchment paper, repurposed picture frames
dimenions variable
2015

Self-Portrait I : Rooted in the Eart

We Are All Made of the Same Earth Stuff : The Human Race
hemp, wool, natural dyes, hand dug clay, wood-fired stoneware, fallen tree limbs, parchment paper, repurposed picture frames
dimenions variable
2015

We Are All Made of the Same Earth Stuff : The Human Race
hemp, wool, natural dyes, hand dug clay, wood-fired stoneware, fallen tree limbs, parchment paper, repurposed picture frames
dimenions variable
2015

Peter and the Wolf

Set Design/Production
hemp, wool, locally raised handspun wool, silk, cotton, hemp rope, natural dyes, hand dug clay, fallen tree limbs, limestone, straw, horsetail reed
19'x25'x25'
2015
Lawrence Arts Center

Peter and the Wolf

Set Design/Production
hemp, wool, locally raised handspun wool, silk, cotton, hemp rope, natural dyes, hand dug clay, fallen tree limbs, limestone, straw, horsetail reed
19'x25'x25'
2015
Lawrence Arts Center

Peter and the Wolf

hemp, wool, locally raised handspun wool, silk, cotton, hemp rope, natural dyes, hand dug clay, fallen tree limbs, limestone, straw, horsetail reed
2015
Lawrence Arts Center

The Human RACE

Divided : Black, Yellow, Brown, Red and White
hemp, wool, hemp rope, natural dyes, fallen tree limbs, bamboo, wood-fired clay, hand dug clay

TheHumanRace

Artist Statement

The Human RACE

Cider Gallery
Lawrence, KS
August 2015

Installation 1

Salina, KS

Installation 32 (detail)

permanent site for Installation 31
Lawrence, KS

Medicinal Art Tour : East to West

New York to California
2015