illustrator & designer
For Buzzfeed News. See the full article here.
For Buzzfeed News. See the essay here
An illustrated and hand-lettered zine that introduces that concept of "everyday resistance" or the ways in which individuals use their bodies and self expression as tools of protest on a daily basis. Here are 15 small ways people these days can challenge the often harmful hegemonic standards of beauty, belief, and behavior.
My poster interpretation of / homage to Janelle Monae’s “Pynk” masterpiece.
Join this gang of concerned school supplies and MARCH on March 24th to keep guns out of our schools and lawmakers out of the grips of the NRA!
Simple, sassy, sad; the beginnings of my animation exploration.
This gif was featured on Sweet, a Snapchat Discover platform, on July 23.
A poster honoring a true style and music saint.
For the Madness issue of A Woman’s Thing Magazine.
Featuring, in order:
Eleanor Holmes Norton, Delegate to US House of Representatives
Francesca Stern Woodman, photographer
Sylvia Plath, poet
Anne Sexton, poet
What's an election without some sensational and inflammatory candidate spoofs? All silliness aside, these posters reflected my own biased views of the candidates. The graphic sexual treatment applied to both candidates acts as an equalizer, while it functions in opposite ways between the posters.
In lieu of the 2nd Presidential Debate being held on my campus, I received funding to construct a political poster wall. Throughout history, posters have been an integral component of political and social movements. Now due to the digital age, posters seem to have lost some of their clout. However I hoped to harken back to a visual culture and tradition of free speech and radicalism. The wheat paste technique pays homage to counterculture activism and flypost propaganda.
An illustration capturing the millennial dilemma this election season. This piece was published on Sweet, a Hearst media brand on Snapchat’s Discover platform, on September 26th, 2016.
A celebration of the emergence of one's self; brave, unencumbered, unapologetic. This ekphrastic illustration was in response to a poem written in response to Sally Mann's photo, "Night Blossom."
Meet Dora Winifrida Kahlo Read - at the intersection of two popular feminist icons. Included in the Society of Illustrators 2017 Student Exhibition.
Poster designs for various Washington University poetry slam events. Assigments were freeform and completely at the artist's discretion, what a dream.
An editorial illustration criticizing the nonsense behind gendered toys.
Using quotes drawn from Zora Neale Hurston's 1937 novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God," this poster diptych gives viewers a glimpse into protagonist Janie's powerful retelling of all her tortured loves.
