Art from the Arts As Life! conference - including my sketchnotes and drawings from the students in my workshop.

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.

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.

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 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.

Skektchnotes from a salon with Livable City about tackling climate change in San Francisco.

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.

Sketchnotes of a transformative, inspirational, useful week at the Dismantling White Supremacy Culture in School conference.

Sketchnotes from the 5th and final session of the “Leadership Conversations” series about “The Art of Everything”.

“Paseo Artístico, a lovely afternoon of art captured in real-time sketches” published in Mission Local.

Sketchnotes from session #3 of the “Leadership Conversations” series about “The Art of Everything”.

This session was moderated by Dairrick 'Khalil Bleux' Hodges in conversation with Cherie Hill.

The theme today was all about how grace and humility are essential qualities for leaders who want to enact actual transformative change.

My sketchnotes from session #2 of the “Leadership Conversations” series about “The Art of Everything.”

This session was moderated by San Francisco Board of Education commissioner Gabriela Lopez talking with Dr. Janice E. Jackson, an educator with a highly distinguished career in academics and school administration.

Here is my sketchnotes from a science podcast, which is also an artifact of me trying to understand black holes.

Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan is a joy to listen to.

This morning, I attended session #1 of the “Leadership Conversations” series about “The Art of Everything” and of course I made a sketchnotes drawing.

The second in a series of sketchnote drawings to cover local public meetings has been published in Mission Local.

A sketchnote drawing from a December 17, 2020 meeting of San Francisco leaders called “Rebound: Re-Imagine San Francisco Through the Arts.”

The first in a series of sketchnote drawings to cover local public meetings has been published in Mission Local.

“If someone is watching, government behaves better.”

My sketchnotes from an observers corps training with the League of Women Voters of San Francisco.

I’m inspired by the way that “A Place of Her Own” uses art as a tool for healing and growth, so I watched their latest artists talk and drew pictures of each of the artists.

This is a manic mega meta sketchnote representing a year of meetings that I participated in as an arts partner and advocate for arts education with the San Francisco Unified School District. I became involved in all this as the executive director of the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area (I left that position in June 2020) and as director of the Where Art Lives program (which I continue to work on).

This is a dense painting with a lot of content and a lot of context…