Jan 5, 2020 | Blog, Events
Growing up as a racially ambiguous immigrant in Northern California was rough; As a freshman in high school, I’d walk down the halls being called a variety of racial slurs while the other kids would watch for my reactions, in an attempt to label me (when even I didn’t...
Aug 27, 2019 | Blog, Events
A couple of months ago, I was lucky enough to be invited on to The Artist Unmasked podcast to chat with the lovely Erica about my printmaking and poetry! Impostor syndrome quickly set in, after the initial excitement of “someone actually wants me to talk about...
Jul 18, 2019 | Blog, Printmaking
You know that moment when you show someone a poem you wrote or a piece of art that you made and they cock their head to the side and look at your piece? Yeah, that happens every time I bring my prints into shops or when I participate in gallery shows. And if...
May 19, 2019 | Blog, Events
On March 21st, I was scrolling through an artwork hashtag on Instagram during my lunch break at work when I came across this post by Connection High School teacher, Justin Wheatley: I was immediately on board, especially having gone to high school in a city where drug...
Feb 14, 2019 | Blog, Events
We’re a week in to the group exhibit, “The Melting Pot II,” curated by the lovely Hanalei Artworks on behalf of Thumbprint Gallery. This show was a lot of fun to prepare for and to go see… mainly because there were a lot of firsts in it for me....
Jul 1, 2018 | Blog, Events
Last night was the opening reception for Community Service, the group exhibit at Visual SD’s gallery. I was lucky to be invited to display two of my linoprints at the exhibit, “Mia & the Silence,” and “Sylvia Studies.” Here they are...
