My collaborator Christopher Baldwin and I are happily in residence in the Gushul Studio in Blairmore, Crowsnest Pass, Alberta. It’s a historic “cottage” (read: airy studio with stunning views and generous living quarters attached) owned by the University of Lethbridge, and operated by that institution as the home of its artist in residence program. I’m read on…

I’m planning to spend October 2015 doing creative research in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem as one of the artists-in-residence at the Teton Artlab in Jackson, Wyoming. I can’t wait to experience the place, and am tremendously excited.

There’s an upcoming show I’m in at the Albuquerque Railyards on November 1st–a one-night-only event of installation work–You Are the Doorway. (You can read about it here on the events page.) I’m having a fine and complicated time developing a project for it, and have been constructing small birds’-nest-forms out of hair, inspired by Victorian read on…

Here’s to Ucross, Wyoming, where I got to participate in a second mini-residency this summer. It was a wonderful and productive time, as last year; but my project was different this time, sinking me deeply into my surroundings. I made early pioneer-style costumes out of local plant materials, using a variety of techniques to render read on…

I just wrapped up a week and a half in Ketchum and Hailey, Idaho, doing research for an upcoming project with the Sun Valley Center for the Arts. Beautiful and complex country. I saw and heard and felt a lot.

Since Svalbard, I’ve been even more interested than before in glaciers. While there aren’t tons of them tumbling into the sea in my neck of the woods, there are still pockets of them hanging out in the cirques and peaks of the US. My original plan for this summer was–on various pieces of road trip read on…

I’ve been working on Arctic pieces–several of which already have homes destined for them, with folks who pledged money in advance of my trip.  It was so touching to be trusted in that way–and I feel a lot of pressure to make the work as good as it can be.  Here’s a fragment of the read on…