Starting in 2022, Art Propeller offers an alternative to Big Tech by helping people find new art beyond their personalized algorithms and connecting them directly with artists and their websites. Art Propeller spins you towards new artists with just one click using a randomizer algorithm. I built Art Propeller from scratch in 2022 before Chat GPT was available, and I have since utilized Chat GPT 4 to push the web development even further. With animation and randomizer javascript, Art Propeller is a simple website that uses random color generation for the background and buttons that are also ADA accessible with color contrast. The randomizing javascript is also applied to send people to a random artist in our roster of almost 200 artists. Please go to the website to explore my web design capabilities by clicking the Art Propeller Button:

Knitting in Solidarity (KIS) is a grassroots movement of knitters responding to the violence of mass shootings by creating prayer shawls of healing for survivor communities. After years without a formal brand, I created a branding package for KIS in 2023. For KIS, I created the website using Squarespace along with the branding colors and fonts. The logo was started using a Brandcrowd logo that I then modified into its current form. I also worked with a volunteer social media manager on our Instagram account in preparation for the KIS exhibitions July 22nd through August 27th, 2023. Throughout this process I created digital and web content either individually or in collaboration with the social media manager.

I remotely worked with Cecil Taylor Ministries (CTM), based in Dallas, TX, from 2020 to 2023. I worked on creating the logo and branding package for both the parent company of CTM and a branch company called Legacy Tree Lessons (LTL). After an iterative process for both brands, I created a brand for both that are in-line with one another in image and font, but branching away with the color selections. Given the target audience demographic of middle class American Christians in the middle America, we decided on a vector logo that is simple and familiar in form. My deliverables included logo design, branding development, and digital banners for Facebook and his website.

My artist website is a sandbox I have developed over the last 10 years. As I learn new design techniques or create new art or notice new trends, I adapt and try new things. While there is a little bit of branding with the choice of colors and font, the primary design function is to direct people towards the art and to not distract from the art.

I worked with Allen Arts Alliance, based in Allen, TX, in 2015 during their first summer of exhibitions at their art gallery, Blue House Too (BH2). I created all print marketing materials, which primarily consisted of print materials of posters and postcards. The posters were also converted into digital content to be sent out with the email newsletter. Because it was the first summer of exhibitions, I had the opportunity to create the first visual brand materials for the gallery. This is a good example of my early work as a graphic designer.

Running their first and only residency in 2020, the seattle residency project (tsrp) is an experimental residency that supports artists and furthers complex conversations in order to inform a future residency/think tank. The banner image above is a screenshot from the mini documentary I assisted in producing with documentarian Champ Ensminger and co-founder Tiffany Danielle Elliott. For tsrp, I created the brand package and logo to build the website and marketing campaign for their first residency. The original website is now archived, but they have a landing page for their website that I helped design to be a placeholder between the original residency and their next residency, which is still to be determined.