I have a new holiday display at Metcalf Sisters in Newton, trying to encourage shoppers to "This holiday season, give a child the gift of reading with a new friend." I hope it takes off. I have a bunch of extra Squishmallows and new plushies after comic con, nice ones, and a lot of really good quality children's books seeking homes.
My Tow Away Zone photograph is represented in the Freedom of Expression national WCA online exhibit as part of the Fall of Freedom initiative. You can check out the virtual exhibition here.
I have one of my Reversals artworks, Funerary Rites: Earth Embrace, depicted in the Rooted in Rite flipbook with some fun other Halloween works, feel free to check it out here or purchase on Amazon. I also have a pantoum poem titled The Rise of Cthulhu, in Eldritch Humor through Nat 1 Publishing, available here on Amazon. Happy Halloween!
My Fibonacci poem Backpeddling Badly appeared in Issue #52 of the Fib Review in Oct. 2025. You can read it here.
My pantoum poem Rebuttal appeared in The Word's Faire online literary journal The Exhibition, curated by Tobi Brun, in Oct. 2025. Check it out here.
I am participating in two art markets this week in Hutchinson, Kansas:
Third Thursday, Oct. 16 - Main Street Monster Mash, UPDATE - I will be at Keller Music Store on 5 South Main Street. The whole of the event runs from Avenue B all the way to DCI Park at the railroad tracks.
Saturday, Oct. 18 - Kermes Fiesta at SW Bricktown Plaza Park and 1st Avenue, there will be all kinds of vendors and food and fun, including a free concert later in the evening.
I will have a HUGE SALE on OOAK photo prints at both events - don't miss this opportunity to pick up pieces at 1/10 their original prices and less! Art to fit every budget. I will also have Witch Hayzelle books & merch and assorted comic collage art for spooky season, as well as other fun freaky finds.
I have another rant in Volume III of Gaslamp Pulp - this time from the standpoint of Santa Claus coming to better terms with the digital revolution. You can find it on Amazon here.
My Fibonacci poem, The Bird That Devours Men about the Piasa Bird myth of athe river confluence north of St. Louis, appears in Cryptids, Kaiju, and Corn, just released through Middle West Press. Find it on Amazon here.
I hung my show today at Metropolitan Coffee in Hutchinson Kansas. The show runs through Oct. 2025. It includes much of the work from the library show in July and August but the change of scenery is nice. So now's your chance to see it if you missed it then. Note: a lot of the paintings feature blacklight sensitive nail polish so they will even glow.
A piece from my Reversals series, The Light They Carry, is featured in Volume 5 of Plant People published through Plants & Poetry Journal. It is a beautiful publication and you can check it out here.
So I wanted to share the teaser video that my co-conspirator, the creator of the Schoolyard Insults game that I illustrated, made to promote it. There's still time to join the Kickstarter.
If the video doesn't load right here's the direct link.
https://youtu.be/riUoh4YgFK4?si=M5BrFvfcW8DD0jzb
I have an alternative selfie photograph in Issue 9 of Chaotic Merge Magazine revisiting the peeling sunshade film at a local abandoned storefront. You can check out the publication on Issuu here.
I have a short rant on behalf of the jolly old soul himself in Gaslamp Pulp Volume 3, out now from Nat 1 Publishing. Santa Claus Gets Tech-nical. Available on Amazon here.
One of my Reversals series digital art pieces titled Antiquated Pharmacy appeared in Sublimation 2.4: It's Okay I Have a Backup. Available here on Amazon.
I have artwork in the September 2025 issue #5: Cake of Neither Fish nor Foul - one of my Reversals series built on perfomance documentation from my 10-year art anniversary and drawings. Check it out here.
The Kickstarter for the card game I did the illustrations for, Schoolyard Insults from Nat 1 Publishing, is LIVE!!! Go and check it out here, and get yourself a copy in time for Christmas.
The third solo novella / chapbook in my Witch Hayzelle's Recipes for Disaster series But What About Breakfast? is out today through Nat 1 Publishing. You can find it here on Amazon.
My series of three cosmic drabbles titled Static was published through Dreadstone Books Micro Horrors in Aug. 2025. Find it here.
I have a couple of pieces in the Artists of McPherson County show at McPherson College in Kansas, opening officially later this week. I am pleased to show my political piece Still once again, along with a totally new assemblage titled Horsepower. The reception will happen in conjunction with Homecoming in late September 2025.
I got to paint another yard sign for the Hutch Rec sign project - this time the theme is Positively Pets. These will be installed for the Third Thursday Dog Days of Summer event coming up next week. I decided to focus on a nonstandard pet and based mine on a parrot after hearing someone has been bringing their macaw with them to Third Thursdays.
I have a poem titled Adrift at Sea appearing in Issue 2: Mirror of The Quasar Review, out Aug. 7, 2025. You can read it here.
My lyric spoken word piece SNaFu appeared on TrashLight Press' online platform with audio reading in Aug. 2025. You can read and listen here.
I have a handful of pieces in Odes & Elegies, as well as all of the interior illustrations, published through Nat 1 Publishing in July 2025. Find it on Amazon here.
I have a drabble in the Lipstick & Gunpowder anthology, edited by Sushravya Shetty and produced through Wingless Dreamer Publishing. Available through Amazon here.
I was able to do figure modeling again today for the Hutchinson Art Center Saturday Drawing Group. I always enjoy seeing how the artists interpret the varied costumes. This time I was inspired by Kate Greenaway's Flower Fairies for summer.
I created a yard sign for a Positivity Pollinators initiative in Hutchinson, Kansas, debuting tomorrow for Third Thursday. My sign features a sphinx moth.
My poem The Owl and the Pussycat Revisited based on Edward Lear's original appears in Audience Askew Volume 4 Issue 1 through Nat 1 Publishing and available here.
I attended the virtual Pop-Up Fluxfest yesterday on Zoom and have since made a video based on the performance that I did, which involved gendered airplane baby spoons. Feel free to check it out below. If the window doesn't load, follow this link.
My Haunted self-portrait photograph in Looking Out: A Connected Perspective curated through the national Women's Caucus for Art. You can view the online gallery version here. Runs through July 31, 2025. Also in conjunction with this show, a Pop-Up Postcard Exhibition is scheduled for the WCA Summer Board Meeting at Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA from July 17 - 20, 2025.
I have a Fibonacci poem in The Fib Review Issue #51 through Muse Pie Press. You can read it here. Titled Narcissus.
I hung my solo show Revisitations in Bloom at the McPherson Library today. The show runs through Aug. 29, 2025 and includes 44 artworks in varied media, mostly working into found thrift art from my Revisitations series but also some floral photography printed 1/1 on metal. Here are some pictures of the show hung.
My story Tangled is published in the July 2025 issue of Flash Phantoms. You can read it here.
This monstrocity was my brainchild... It's Gaslamp Pulp special edition Florida Man. I have two stories in this strange pulp fiction publication, and did all of the illustrations using antique postcards. Find it on Amazon here.
I have a Fibonacci poem titled Drowning in the June 2025 Issue 1 of Harrow House, p. 149. Released today. Feel free to read here.
It was cool to finally go to a comic con - lots of fun costumes. I kept it pretty simple as I was vending. I am excited to share that Puppy Love has been adopted and as per my initial plan, I am donating $50 from the sale to The Trevor Project, all the more needed now. Note: tomorrow is the last day for my photography show at McPherson Opera House so catch it while you can. I will be taking it down Monday.
As I get ready to head into Day 2 of Comic Con, I wanted to post some pictures of my setup from yesterday with all the witchy themed merch, Witch Hayzelle books, and PRIDE fun. There are even a band of Squishmallows hiding out in back (you can't see them at this angle).
I am going to be at the Smallville Comic Con at the Hutchinson State Fairgrounds both tomorrow, Friday, June 20, from 1 - 8 PM and also Saturday, June 21 from 10 AM - 6 PM. The event is combined with Hutchinson PRIDE this year and a $10 button gets you into both! I am very excited as this will be my first con, and I am taking Witch Hayzelle books and merch as well as OOAK art and comic collages and a ton of other fun stuff, mostly spooky themed and in consideration of PRIDE. I have fun things for every budget. Please come and check it out.
I was interviewed as part of the lead-in to the NACL Smallville Comic Con in Hutchinson, coming up June 20 & 21 at the State Fairgrounds in Hutchinson in conjunction with PRIDE. Please feel free to give it a listen here. Here's a teaser of one of the collages I will be taking, incorporating an image of one of John Atkinson Grimshaw's fairies on a found thrift store painting of ivy.
More info for PRIDE McPherson happening TODAY! I will have a table set up at Integrity Salon in the late afternoon from around 3 PM onward for vending in addition to the drawings at McPherson SOL. I have a bunch of fun costume and parade stuff, gifts for your sweetie (like lots of Squishmallows), PRIDE themed art, ornaments, stickers, and more. Puppy Love will be joining me as well. Please drop by and check it out if you can.
I am excited to have a poem in an anthology celebrating Midwest cryptids, titled Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn, coming out in October. I wrote about the Piasa Bird and legend of Alton, IL. Feel free to learn more here.
I am getting ready for PRIDE McPherson! I will be vending with all kinds of fun stuff, and talking about the artworks I donated to McPherson SOL (previously the Coalition for Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity). Coming up June 7!
