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I'm a printmaker, painter, Urban Sketcher, lifelong Memphian, and occasional upright bass player. I chat with strangers, pick up rocks, and wander out into the city with my dog and my sketchbook. I've been lucky enough to be doing art full time since 1999, and my first solo museum show was at Dixon Gallery and Gardens in 2015. I had a couple more at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in 2022 and at William Faulkner's Rowan Oak in 2024. Lately I've thrilled my inner middle-school-book-nerd by writing and illustrating books including P is for Possum, Memoir of a House, and M is for Memphis.

You can read my full vita here.

The Memphis Flyer did an article about my first ever public art.

Memphis Magazine wrote a review of M is for Memphis.

Here is a beautifully filmed encapsulation of what I do and why I do it from Bard Cole at WKNO:

The exhibition preview for my show at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art:

That time when PBS visited my print shop:

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