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Protect California, protect the state’s Democratic Party. Vote online now, or register to vote in person at https://ademelections.com/home by February 23.
Also, check out several paintings that I am currently working on.
How I'm voting in the November 2024 election, and my drawings from the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival.
What does it look like when Paul Atreides ingests the spice, melange?
I saw the show on Thursday, made this painting on Friday, and hung it at City Art Cooperative Gallery on Saturday.
Protect San Francisco from conservative billionaires!
How I’m voting in the March 2024 election, and pictures of several brand new paintings.
The summer of 2023 in San Francisco has been great for seeing live music out in the sunshine. Here is a selection of some of the drawings I’ve made, in real time, at those shows.
The drastic step I’m about to take, and why I’m doing that now.
Art from recent travels through southern Spain.
I drew some pictures of the bands at Porchfest 2023 in San Francisco.
The Prophecy TV is an art project to create a collaborative vision of the future that I’ve been working since about 2007.
As I collect your drawings and ideas about what we want the future to be, and as I incorporate those drawings into new episodes, I will share them in this article.
Art from the Arts As Life! conference - including my sketchnotes and drawings from the students in my workshop.
Drawings of artists from an evening at The Drawing Room Annex gallery.
I brought my sketchbook to 3 outdoor concerts in San Francisco. See my drawings from the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, Due South, and the 20th Street Block Party.
Don’t let Election Knight sneak up on you!
How I’m voting in the November 2022 election, and pictures of the third giant heart sculpture I pained.
I painted two wooden heart panels to give away as part of the Mission Kiss public art project.
There were four bands at the Cowgirlpalooza show on Labor Day at El Rio. I sketched them all, in between all the dancing.
Three sketches of performances in San Francisco parks on three different days.
How I’m filling out my San Francisco ballot for the June 2022 election and why we really need to reject the recall attempt. Also, see the first pictures of my new San Francisco heart sculpture painting.
How I’m voting in the April 2022 special election, the comments I’m making to the Redistricting Task Force, and a new painting about the San Francisco’s District 9.
How it took me over seven years to paint “Heart of the Mission.”
I observed and made sketchnote drawings of the February 18, 2022 meeting of the San Francisco Redistricting Task Force for MissionLocal.org.
As I watched the Hearts in SF 2022 Live presentation to benefit the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation, I made some sketches. Here they are.
I really appreciate Wendy MacNaughton’s art and her whole philosophy about it. I watched her TED talk several times and painted her portrait.
My picks and my reasoning for the February 2022 San Francisco special election. Spoiler alert: vote for Campos and vote NO on all the recalls.
Sketchnotes from the December 16 meeting of the San Francisco Planning Commission where approval was given to turn what was a residential care facility into a private residence.
My design, “Four Hills, Four Towers, Flowing Fog, Native Flowers” was selected and I will get to paint a heart sculpture to benefit the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation.
I will continue to update this post with pictures of the heart in progress.
Sketchnotes from Rebound 3, Arts Equity & Recovery, an online event that brought BIPOC artists in San Francisco together with leaders of the city’s public arts funders.
I painted some flux capacitors and realized the REAL TRUTH about Doctor Emmet Brown.
I was honored to be able to join “Art Camp for Comrades,” a week of facilitated activities with a brilliant cohort of 10 talented artists from across the country. Jason Wyman organized this week of making fast art and creating community over zoom. I drew sketchnotes during the sessions, then copied and collaged those notes into this painting as I reflected on the experience.
Vote No in the 2021 California Recall election and please don’t sign any recall petitions.
Why use the arts for inquiry?
What does artistic inquiry even mean?
I will use this space to share my experiments with artistic inquiry…