This 2024 traveling exhibition features a 15 foot painted panorama documenting key moments from U.S. voting rights history alongside original art from the Suffrage Song book. Original pencil comics pages, etchings, and handmade banners are configured to fit different gallery contexts.
Women’s Work: Suffrage Movements 1848-1965 was an online comic and gallery exhibition made with support from the Burchfield Penney Art Center to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the United States Constitution.
This project was made possible by grants from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) and The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
The comic kept growing after the exhibition closed and it will be published as a 200+ page graphic novel in Spring 2024.
This exhibition collected ten years of my mail order Postal Constituent comic with hand written analysis. It took place at Western New York Book Arts Center, Fall 2019.
The Great Moments in Western Civilization Postal Constituent is a bi-monthly comic periodical that folklorizes historic failures and grim futures. The Cooperative has published the Postal Constituent since 2009 and has published over 60 issues. Some of the earlier issues have been collected into the books: In The Beginning: Comics from the First Five Years and The Index: Part 1. Others will remain ephemeral pamphlets for eternity.
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Read the full comic at Amplify Arts! This comic was also published with some additional content as Volume 13, Issue 3 of the Postal Constituent.
How to Fly in America collects artifacts from a not so distant past when millionaires wore money bags and poor people were two inches tall. It highlights the hysteria that led Rockefella to snuff out tenement campfires. It recounts how the Van Stelton brothers stole potatoes from hungry mouths to feed their train engines. Most importantly, it investigates that up-from-your-bootstraps- find-your-fortune-in-the-potato-pile energy that taught America how to fly.
This exhibit was part of Amid/In Western New York at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, January 2016.
The Great Moments in Western Civilization Cooperative writes Pre-History is an "explosion book" about extinction and life. Half researched retelling, half reimagined history; this artful little book implicates human-like species for pre-historic destruction.
Original is acrylic and ink on paper, reproduced version is digitally printed in full color and hand folded.
Volume 8 Issue 6 of the Postal Constituent
June 2018
Humans in Peril collects 50 gag cartoons about humans struggling to get by. It was published as Volume 8, Issue 5 of the Great Moments in Western Civilization Postal Constituent.
5 x 7 inches, 52 pages, Black and White
Projections on a Monument originally appeared as a 60” by 83” drawing with over-layed projected content. It was created to help celebrate the 200th anniversary of Douglass’ birth and was first displayed at Rochester Contemporary Art Center in February 2018 as part of the exhibition No Soil Better: Art and the Living Legacy of Frederick Douglass. It was subsequently published as the Vol 8 Issue 4 of the Postal Constituent.
The Museum of Failure collects the failures of the Western Civilization into a multimedia art exhibit. The Museum originated in in Buffalo, NY but has also made appearances in Rochester and Washington, DC.
A running list of sources for my minicomics
A running list of sources for my minicomics
