How I’m Voting and You Can Too - November 2024
How I'm voting in the November 2024 election, and my drawings from the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival.
How I’m Voting and You Can Too - March 2024
Protect San Francisco from conservative billionaires!
How I’m voting in the March 2024 election, and pictures of several brand new paintings.
How I’m Voting and You Can Too - November 2022
Don’t let Election Knight sneak up on you!
How I’m voting in the November 2022 election, and pictures of the third giant heart sculpture I pained.
How I’m Voting and You Can Too – June 2022
How I’m filling out my San Francisco ballot for the June 2022 election and why we really need to reject the recall attempt. Also, see the first pictures of my new San Francisco heart sculpture painting.
How I’m Voting and You Can Too - April 2022 San Francisco
How I’m voting in the April 2022 special election, the comments I’m making to the Redistricting Task Force, and a new painting about the San Francisco’s District 9.
Heart of the Mission District
How it took me over seven years to paint “Heart of the Mission.”
Sketching the redistricting debate for Mission Local
I observed and made sketchnote drawings of the February 18, 2022 meeting of the San Francisco Redistricting Task Force for MissionLocal.org.
How I’m Voting And You Can Too — February 2022 San Francisco Special Election
My picks and my reasoning for the February 2022 San Francisco special election. Spoiler alert: vote for Campos and vote NO on all the recalls.
Sketchnotes from the Planning Commission
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.
Vote No On All The Recalls
Vote No in the 2021 California Recall election and please don’t sign any recall petitions.
How to Fight Climate Change in San Francisco
Skektchnotes from a salon with Livable City about tackling climate change in San Francisco.
Resigning from Graffiti Advisory Board
My letter of resignation from the Graffiti Advisory Board of San Francisco and a selection of doodles and notes I made during meetings.
Rebound :: A meeting about recovery and the arts in San Francisco
A sketchnote drawing from a December 17, 2020 meeting of San Francisco leaders called “Rebound: Re-Imagine San Francisco Through the Arts.”
Observer Corps Training
“If someone is watching, government behaves better.”
My sketchnotes from an observers corps training with the League of Women Voters of San Francisco.
Art and Journalism
Can my art be useful as journalism, and could I get a grant for that? This post has sketchnotes of three events:
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting where they considered approving a new San Francisco Police Department contract.
“Drawing Outside The Lines: Art, Activism & Journalism,” an event hosted by Gray Area arts and Mission Local.
“ArtSpan Artist Workshop: Applying for Grants & Residencies,” with guest speaker Cheryl Derricotte
Arts Equity District
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…