How I’m Voting and You Can Too – June 2022
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 and You Can Too - April 2022 San Francisco
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.
Heart of the Mission District
How it took me over seven years to paint “Heart of the Mission.”
Sketching the redistricting debate for Mission Local
I observed and made sketchnote drawings of the February 18, 2022 meeting of the San Francisco Redistricting Task Force for MissionLocal.org.
Sketches of Hearts in SF Live
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.
Wendy MacNaughton Appreciation Post
I really appreciate Wendy MacNaughton’s art and her whole philosophy about it. I watched her TED talk several times and painted her portrait.
How I’m Voting And You Can Too — February 2022 San Francisco Special Election
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 Planning Commission
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.
Watch my heart develop
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.
Notes from Rebound 3
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.
How Doc Brown Really Invented Time Travel
I painted some flux capacitors and realized the REAL TRUTH about Doctor Emmet Brown.
One Time in Art Camp
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 On All The Recalls
Vote No in the 2021 California Recall election and please don’t sign any recall petitions.
How to Fight Climate Change in San Francisco
Skektchnotes from a salon with Livable City about tackling climate change in San Francisco.
When I was a Substitute Teacher Artist
I was a substitute teacher for 16 years with the San Francisco Unified School District. Now, I am featured in a book about redesigning substitute teaching.
‘Grace and Compassion’ painting in Mission Local
I’ve continued my series of occasional experiments in art and journalism with another piece published in Mission Local. This time the article is a tour through my new painting, “Grace and Compassion,” which I created by combining sketchnotes from a year of meetings with the San Francisco Unified School District and partnering organizations.
How to Abolish Racism in Schools
Sketchnotes of a transformative, inspirational, useful week at the Dismantling White Supremacy Culture in School conference.
Scribble Art Experiments at San Leandro High School
Thumbnail image by Andrea, 9th grade.
High school students and their teachers used art to explore and express their feelings about the COVID vaccines and school during a pandemic.
The Art of Everything Session 5
Sketchnotes from the 5th and final session of the “Leadership Conversations” series about “The Art of Everything”.
Paseo Artistico drawings in Mission Local
“Paseo Artístico, a lovely afternoon of art captured in real-time sketches” published in Mission Local.