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Watch What Happens When You Ask Non-Creative Professionals to Work for Free

Toronto advertising agency Zulu Alpha Kilo created this video to demonstrate how absurd it is for people to ask for the advertising...

The Art World Doesn’t Want Us to Ask Where the Money Comes From

“Never underestimate the defensiveness of very rich people who believe they’re progressive and who are willing to give back in any way...

Photographers Need to Reexamine What Consent Means

“Navigating photography ethics can be like walking a tightrope. Lean in one direction, and the photographer risks exploiting the person...

An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord’s ‘The Society of the Spectacle’

I've been thinking about the Spectacle a lot, and how, as a visual artist, I can even be expected to compete with it An Illustrated Guide...

The Changes of Street Art in the Face of Gentrification

"Urban theorist Richard Florida hypothesizes that city authorities must distinguish their sites both visually and recreationally to...

How Graffiti Became Gentrified

"...affluent college graduates enacted a great migration from the suburbs to the country’s cities, graffiti became the literal poster...

What Role Do Artists Play In Gentrification

"After World War II, the U.S. federal government essentially created suburbs out of thin air by subsidizing the mortgages of millions of...

How Modern Art Serves the Rich

"During the late 1950s and 1960s, Robert and Ethel Scull, owners of a lucrative taxi company, became fixtures on the New York gallery...

New Softcover Book: Women at Work

I've started making curated collections of drawings from my live-drawing project Wandering Witness, and here's the first one: Women at...

Artist in Residence for Greensboro Bound

I was very excited to be one of the artists chosen to be a part of the inaugural Resident Artist program at Greensboro Bound Literary...

New Periodical Available: WINK

I decided to start making a periodical featuring my ink illustrations, and the first issue is now available: it is called WINK and you...

Inktober 2017 & 2018 Now Available As Periodicals!

You can now buy the entire series of 31 drawings from Inktober 2018 in the form of a magazine, click here to see more.

2019 Calendars Now Available

I'm busy turning my photo and illustrative work into calendars and books, and some are now available: two 2019 Calendars are currently...

Reconstruction! Pardon the Mess

I have to this point managed my website by outsourcing most of the photo load to other sites, usually social networks, because posting...

Broken Links! Construction Ahead

Like many artists, my Tumblr has been marked explicit, so all the work I link to through there is now restricted, and after next week...

Spotlighting Past Projects: VIVISECTION

In 2015, while I was pursuing my BFA at UNCCharlotte, I received a grant from the D-Arts Center to create a digitally fabricated project....

Inktober 2018 is a Wrap!

Inktober 2018 is complete! You can view all the drawings individually here.

New Illustration: Thelma Massey

I don't post all of my newest work to this section, but this illustration and upcoming street art needed some descriptive text, so. I've...

October OPEN STUDIO Hours

I'm keeping OPEN STUDIO hours the same for the month of October: TUESDAYS and THURSDAYS from 10 AM to 3 PM you can stop my studio just...

Opening at Scuppernong Books Friday, October 5th: Latest Drawings from Wandering Witness

Scuppernong Books in downtown Greensboro is graciously hosting a showing of some of the latest drawings from my 4-year-long reportage...

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