As a community organizer, my framework for social change centers on relationships and strives for long-term, systemic change. As such, community engagement is a critical component of my work from hosting community screening printing workshops, pairing documentary screenings and storytelling events with my art events, and organizing monthly community gatherings focused on strengthening relationships, mutual aid, reconciliation, decolonization, and abolition. Below are just a handful of the community art projects I’ve led over the years.
For the Love of Water Exhibition – As part of the exhibition, I organized a screening of the Bad River Film and hosted a Community Screen Printing workshop with other artists from the show (Madison, WI 2026).
Community Screen Printing Workshop in colloration with artists Lesley Numbers & Richards Jones in preparation for the Water Protector procession during the AppleFest Parade and Water Walk (Bayfield, WI 2025).
Community Sewing Circle as part of my Wanderlust exhibition at the Washburn Cultural Center (Washburn, WI 2025).
Intersection Mural Project – Placemaking project I brought to life using construction spray chalk to create a vibrant street mural as a bonus checkpoint for the Riverwest 24 in which over 100 people helped to paint the mural in a matter of hours. I then scaled up this project by receiving a grant for an additional eight 30′ murals as a way to bring attention to Milwaukee’s discriminatory policies that excluded residents in low-income neighborhoods from accessing traffic calming infrastructure while also using the murals as low-cost traffic calming and beauty in the streets (Milwaukee, WI 2014).
BICICLE – I hosted a series of community events for the CycloCross National Championship Bike Race including curated a pop-up bicycle themed art exhibition featuring the work of Taliah Lamphert, Pete DiAntoni, and Kevin Sparrow in an empty building on the Capital square (Madison, WI 2012).