The Salt Shed Collaboration
The Salt Shed and I produced a weekly Instagram collaboration series called Shed a Light, about aspects of the building's history and transformation. Many of you followed along with us for six Thursdays in May and June of 2023 for posts that featured my documentary photos from the last couple of years.

The New York Times Photo

My photo of Toni L. Griffin (Urban American City), planner and urban designer, made The NY Times, in a piece about the Venice Biennale’s Laboratory of the Future. Toni was a participant in the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Patagonia
In December 2021, Patagonia published my personal essay and photos on their blog, The Cleanest Line. See below and read. In 2022, Patagonia featured my story on their Instagram page.

Women Artists and Activists
During Fall 2021, I documented a beautiful new mural in the Wabash Arts Corridor located at South Wabash Ave and West Harrison St. This work honors and celebrates local women suffragette activists and is the first of its kind in Chicago. It was designed and painted by Diosa (Jasmina Cacazu).

There was to be another mural celebrating women by artist Dorian Sylvain that was unexpectedly blocked at the last minute. Read about the controversy in this issue of New City.

The Story Behind the Photograph
In 2021, the Outwin exhibition, American Portraiture Today, traveled to the D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield MA. The students in my photograph and I were invited by the National Portrait Gallery and the Springfield Museum to present a program about the story behind the photograph. The conversation, moderated by Taína Caragol of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, touched on youth voices, the power of art to connect people, and the unexpected friendship that resulted from this series of events. Click here to watch.

Chicago Tribune Articles
This thoughtful piece by Heidi Stevens made the front page of the Chicago Tribune in December 2019. Click here to read about the photo, the Smithsonian, and the three Chicago Public School students who marched for a safer world for all of us.

Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
My work was selected, out of 2600 entries, to be included in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition, “The Outwin 2019 American Portraiture Today”, which opened in October 2019 in Washington, DC.

The Outwin 2019 American Portraiture Today
features work by nearly 50 finalists of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery's latest Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.

Exhibition Touring Schedule:

• October 26, 2019 - August 30, 2020
  Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
  Washington, DC

• October 3, 2020 to April 4, 2021
  Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts
  Springfield Museums, Springfield, MA

• Early May 2021 to early August 2021
  cancelled due to Covid-19

• September 10, 2021 to January 23, 2022
  Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
  Washington University St. Louis, MO

• The Pride & Perils of Chicago's Public Art,
  Wabash Arts Corridor murals, Chicago Cultural Center, 2017

• Street Level,
  Hokin Gallery, Columbia College, Fall 2017

• The Education Project Photo Exhibition,
  Solo Exhibition, Illini Union Art Gallery, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015

• The Education Project Photo Exhibition,
  Solo Exhibition, Grinnell College, 2015
  click here for event list

• The Education Project Photo Exhibition,
  Solo Exhibition, Luther College, 2013

• Go Do Good / Chicago Photography Collective, Group Show, 2011

• Two Schools A Photo Diary / Chicago
  Photography Collective, Two Person Show, 2010

• Vietnam, Solo Exhibition, Chicago Public Library, 2010

• Vietnam, Solo Exhibition, Battrell Gallery, 2009