May 2024 | Chicago, IL
Hand-Drawn Illustration // Screen Print on Fabric
Oui Chef is art made for fun, celebrating pasta girlies everywhere.
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January 2024 | Chicago, IL
Graphic Design // Typography // Artist's Books
Rotting is a volvelle paper clock made for Unproductive Time. I was inspired by “girl rot,” a fascinating term circulating the internet that is an obvious result of tired gals dealing with internalized capitalism and burnout.
The term "rotting" seems to be a modernized version of the old Scottish “hurkle-durkle," meaning "to lie in bed or lounge about when one should be up and about."
As the volvelle turns, readers flow through the following activities:
- feel overwhelmed
- make food
- look at phone
- have a drink
- hold the cat
- watch TV
- sleep
- text a boy
...and repeat.
December 2021 | Iowa City
Graphic Design // Bookbinding
Menu miniatures made for a winter prix fixe meal at Big Grove Brewery & Taproom. Digitally typeset and hand-bound.
May 2021 | Iowa City, IA
Letterpress // Book Arts // Typography // Binding
Boyfriend / Lover / Partner is an original piece written, designed, typeset, and bound by me. It outlines, in three sections, the different kinds of “love” relationships we experience with ourselves and our intimate partners. The “story” is told through an autobiographical, though second-person, account mixed with free-form poetic narrative.
The final edition includes thirteen books in total. There are a few available to view, on request, in the UICB archives.
January 2024 | Chicago, IL
This installation for Unproductive Time considers biological (re)production.
The birth control book uses two of my emptied pill packs as covers. While its teeny design feels intimate / quiet / personal, the content revealed after opening the French fold is a marxist-feminist “joke” about the ways in which birth control pills have allowed me to seize the means of production within my own body.
The “scroll” within the prenatal vitamin bottle is a fake prescription I wrote, inspired by a real doctor’s appointment. A few years ago, I checked myself in with my GP, because I was experiencing anxiety attacks that came along with chronic elevated blood pressure, trouble breathing, dizziness, and extreme fatigue. My blood panels came back normal, but I was “prescribed” prenatal vitamins, because I was designed to be a baby factory whether I choose to procreate or not, and the vitamins might help it achieve its desired level of health.
I look at the vitamin packaging every day, and I feel mocked by the text bubble that reads, “Supports the development of baby’s brain, eyes, & nervous system.” Do the vitamins support mine, too — or just my freaky little ghost baby?
During my artist talk at the close of the exhibition, I discussed the irony of my daily medicine routine, which includes taking a birth control pill with a prenatal vitamin.
November 2021 | Iowa City, IA
Graphic Design // Letterpress
Ms. November was designed and printed to support the University of Iowa Center for the Book Ladies Typographic Union. Each year, the union makes a collaborative calendar to raise funds for UICB student materials and scholarships. I was assigned the month of November for the 2022 calendar project.
Ms. November is centered around allyship and the recognition of Native American Heritage day — she cooks a meal while reading a fictitious book titled, “Decolonizing Dinnertime: Holiday Advice for the Modern Ally.” Her text backdrop is an excerpt from the University of Iowa land acknowledgement.
The print consists of a mix of hand-set metal type and digitally-set type / repurposed vintage ad art that were transferred via inkjet negative to a metal polymer plate. It was printed in two colors on two press runs.
I am one of many artists who worked on this project — to see an archive of our collected works, visit (& follow!) the LTU Instagram.
May 2022 | Iowa City
Letterpress // Graphic Design // Typography
Just a goofy little book about the delicious (and sometimes strange) foods and drinks I’ve consumed at work over the past decade, arranged “salon-style” in their own quaint little gallery.
Featured in Buttery Spread, a culinary-themed art exhibition, November 9 – December 30, 2023 at Brew House Arts in Pittsburgh, PA
December 2020 | Iowa City
Graphic Design // Bookbinding
Menu miniatures made for a winter prix fixe meal at Big Grove Brewery & Taproom. Digitally typeset and hand-bound.
November 2022 | Iowa City, IA
Letterpress
The End was designed and printed to support the University of Iowa Center for the Book Ladies Typographic Union. Each year, the union makes a collaborative calendar to raise funds for UICB student materials and scholarships. I was assigned the month of December for the 2023 calendar project.
Thinking about the calendar as a book genre, I was inspired to use December as the last page or “conslusion,” so I included last lines from some of my favorite books in the main image of the calendar page and ended the illustrated book on page number 365 to represent days in a year.
The print consists of a mix of hand-set metal type and a digitally designed book illustration that was transferred via inkjet negative to a metal polymer plate. It was printed in two colors on two press runs.
I am one of many artists who worked on this project — to see an archive of our collected works, visit (& follow!) the LTU Instagram.
July 2021 | Iowa City | Sky
November 2020 | Iowa City | White + Brown
Bookbinding
October 2020 | Iowa City
Bookbinding // Suminagashi
October 2020 | Iowa City
Bookbinding
December 2020 | Iowa City
Bookbinding
