Collections

The Lilly Library. Indiana University.
The Book of Millie-Ba.
Special Collections, The University of Iowa Libraries.
Actias Luna, Refuge Prayer I
Ballard Creek, 1973
Nest of Patience
The Way It Is
Works held in private collections throughout the world.

Exhibitions

Home: Portraits of the Mississippi River. October—January 2014
Solo Exhibition of Photography. Viroqua Healing Arts Center, Viroqua, Wisconsin.

See the Moon. May—June 2014
Contributor, The Compassion Project, The Pump House Art Galleries, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Blue Bower.  May/June 2010
Collaboration with artist Tatiana Ginsberg. Designed and installed outdoor site-specific sculpture of lashed arcing willow fences and indigo-dyed paper omikugi. Stevens Point Sculpture Park, Stevens Point, Wisconsin. 

Nest of Patience. Spring 2009—December 2010
Collaboration with calligrapher/artist Cheryl Jacobsen. Marking Time Exhibition, a travelling exhibition of The Guild of Bookworkers. An artist book contemporary reflection on patience via medieval book format; a subtle satire on the cultural phenomena of social media; an authentic record of a spiritual path.

Actias Luna, Refuge Prayer I.  March 2006
Contributor, cARTalog Exhibition, The University of Iowa Libraries’ North Exhibition Hall, Iowa City, Iowa.

Life-Hand Reliquary. Summer 2005
Contributor, Lineage of a Master Exhibition, in Honor of Bill Anthony.
The University of Iowa Libraries, The Changing Book Conference, Iowa City, Iowa.

Leaving None Unturned. Spring 2004
Contributor, Matter & Spirit Exhibition, Wells College, Ithaca, New York.

The Book of Millie-Ba. Summer 2003—December 2004
Contributor, In Flight Exhibition, Bi-annual travelling exhibition of The Guild of Bookworkers.

Publications | Presentations

Thinking Like a Mountain: Fostering Well-being through Interdependence Mindset.
Case study for GlobalEE Expert Certificate. June 2016.

A Single Landscape, from Baraboo to Bangladesh: Land Ethics, Water, and Climate Change.
Aldo Leopold Foundation blog, April 6, 2016.

Interpreting Deluge: A Story of Collections and Response from the 2008 Iowa Floods.
Volume 5, No. 2, Spring 2009, p. 48-53.

Materiality of the Book.
Course Curriculum for Interdisciplinary book arts/book studies course. University of Iowa Center for the Book. 2006

The Story in the Cards: Intimacy, Empathy and Reader Response.
The Bonefolder, Volume 3, No. 1, Fall 2006, p. 3-9.

The cARTalog Project. Umbrella, Volume 29, No. 2, June 2006, p. 27.

Fore Edge Registration Hand-Cradling for Top-Down Scanners.
The Abbey Newsletter, Volume 26, Number 4, February, 2003.

Refiguring the Oak: A Study of Time and Narrative Identity in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.
Presentation at The International Conference of Literature and Theology, Westminister, Oxford, September, 1996.

Roots and Words, a Bridge of Oak: An Analysis of Time and Narrative Identity in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando
through the Theory of Paul Ricoeur. MA Thesis, University of Iowa, 1995.

Philosopher, Master, Slave: The Role of Misogyny in Nietzsche’s Thought.
Senior Honors Thesis. cum laude. Lawrence University, 1991.

Tropos: Art & Literary Magazine, Lawrence University. 1988-1991. Editor in Chief.

Specialty Training & Handcraft Experience, 1990—present

For over two decades I have invested in interdisciplinary handcraft professional training across the country with over 40 artists and specialists. Such training includes:

Advanced bookbinding (leatherwork, conservation, historical structures, artist/modular structures, boxes/specialty enclosures) Advanced paper conservation (archival storage, cleaning, repairing, lining rare maps, matting/framing of artwork, tape removal)
Calligraphy and Drawing (abstract, architectural, life, landscape)
Carpentry (hand tool/electric-free, Japanese , sustainable)
Environmental Education (land ethics, erosion control, ornithology, native planting/habitat, woodland/prairie/watershed restoration,
transdisciplinary approaches to climate change)
Garden and landscape design (sustainable, rewilding, native)
Exhibition curating and installation
Hand paper making (eastern and western)
Natural Dying, with emphasis in Indigo (on paper, cloth; pigmenting techniques; medieval pigments and dyes)
Printing (linotype, letterpress, woodblock, intaglio)
Sculpture (environmental/site specific, textile/fiber, wire, wood, plaster, clay, bronze casting)
Sustainability (environmental consumerism, green building, intentional living, passive solar, small house design)
Textile arts and conservation (machine and hand sewing, mending, embroidery, global textile traditions, knitting, quilting)
Tool and clasp making (bone, metal, wood)
Willow, growing and building living sculpture
Writing (creative non-fiction, poetry)