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.
Education Learnings January 2021
A set of drawings from the January 25 Community Circle for Arts Education, the January 26 SFUSD Arts Community Collaborative, and the zoom classrooms of two middle school teachers I will be working with.
Drawing of a Black Hole
Here is my sketchnotes from a science podcast, which is also an artifact of me trying to understand black holes.
Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan is a joy to listen to.
The Art of Everything session #1
This morning, I attended session #1 of the “Leadership Conversations” series about “The Art of Everything” and of course I made a sketchnotes drawing.
TotalSF - Star Trek IV
I created live art during a Total SF viewing party of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - a very inspiring movie.
Youth Commission Discusses the Budget
The second in a series of sketchnote drawings to cover local public meetings has been published in Mission Local.
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.”
Published in Mission Local
The first in a series of sketchnote drawings to cover local public meetings has been published in Mission Local.
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.
“A Place of Her Own” knows how to use art
I’m inspired by the way that “A Place of Her Own” uses art as a tool for healing and growth, so I watched their latest artists talk and drew pictures of each of the artists.
Scribbling to Strings
I joined Will Hurd on Instagram Live to create a live drawing of him while he performed Bach movements on his cello.
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…
Election week paintings
On the Wednesday after election night, while ballots were still being counted, I went to the park with an empty canvas and spent some time with this tree, some good music, and my thoughts…
The Artistic Inquiry Don’t Stop
Why use the arts for inquiry?
What does artistic inquiry even mean?
I will use this space to share my experiments with artistic inquiry…