Painted wooden Lunenburg dory with screen-printed sails, fishing rope pompom baggywrinkle and tassels, and cyanotype name pennant. First shown during Crafts___Ship group exhibition at St. Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS, February - April 2023.

The name is a quote borrowed from Capt. Irving Johnson in his classic tall ship footage, Around Cape Horn. He narrates, “You should see the safety regulations here on this ship, they've never heard the word.” The phrase expresses my desire to throw caution to the wind when it comes to attempting new methods of craftsmanship or navigating yet-unmastered abilities. It also emphasizes the humor and irony of a dory that should have splintered apart decades ago and through some South Shore magic has survived over 60 years.

Series of hand-stitched personalized flags for notable historic and current women seafarers - natural dyes, cyanotype, linoleum and silkscreen on sail canvas. Produced during winter Artist-in-Residence and inaugural summer Artist Fellowship programs at the Lunenburg School of the Arts, Lunenburg, NS, February - August, 2021.

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Series of individual printmaking-, textile-, and performance-based works produced in the Interdisciplinary Art, Media, and Design graduate program at OCAD University. Toronto, Ontario, 2020.

“The purpose of this project is to examine and produce works of ‘Soft Espionage’ that slowly reveal hidden information to encourage engagement and form connections between a creator and target audience…These works highlight the current disparity between widespread access to information and communication versus quality of communication, and the resulting diminished shared experiences and emotional connections.” (From Masters Thesis “Soft Espionage (This Tape Will Self Destruct!): Parodic, Profane, and Private Designs for Curiosity and Communication”)

Textile map, edition of linoleum-printed patches, and accompanying guide booklets, designed and produced for the Tomorrow River Homestead spring residency. Nelsonville, Wisconsin, 2019.

During the residency I collected local observations into a map for others who would stay at the homestead in the future, community locals and traveling visitors alike. I chose map symbols based on categories of things I had observed, the kind of things I would look for in an unfamiliar place, or the kind of overlooked places I thought others should know about. Many other symbols were based on Hobo Code, a pictorial language that transient workers in the early 20th century adopted and used to inform/warn others of distinct places in railway-side towns (just south of the town border is a place where a few railroad tracks still cross. It was, and still is, a hotspot for train hoppers).

Ongoing relational performance, game-like mimic play of a passover seder where rules change throughout the evening, and the story grows each successive performance. Linoleum-printed tablecloth, xerox haggadot, salt water, beet horseradish, matzah, Toronto, ON, November 2018.

Letterpress stationery designed and hand-printed on the cast-iron presses at Bowne & Co., Stationers at the South Street Seaport Museum, 2015 - 2017.

Illustrated souvenir museum guide and scavenger hunt produced for the City Reliquary Museum & Civic Organization, May 2017.

Four columns of 20 foot tall stained glass windows, designed and produced for the Peltz Center for Jewish Life of Mequon, Wisconsin, 2016 - 2017.