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I’m thrilled to announce that my project, “The Sound of Plastic,” has been awarded an Artists Respond grant from the CT Office of the Arts! 🎨🦀🐟 This grant will support my ongoing Climate Justice and Environmental Activism work at Seaside Park in Bridgeport, CT, where I’ve dedicated years to raising awareness about plastic pollution and horseshoe crab conservation.

With this funding, “The Sound of Plastic” will expand its reach by collaborating with children at the Wakeman Boys & Girls Club Madison Avenue Community Clubhouse this October. A huge thank you to Bridgeport Sustainability Manager Chadwick Schroeder for his continuous support, and to Sabrina Smeltz and Emily Powell at Wakeman Boys & Girls Club for the opportunity to lead a month-long art and education project with their members.

The Artists Respond grant program empowers Connecticut artists to create community-based projects, ranging from large-scale events to intimate group activities. These artist-led initiatives harness the power of art to inspire, empower, educate, and transform communities across Connecticut. 🌟

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Thanks again to at for the wonderful opening on May 17. I have shown in this neighborhood since the 90’s via Bridges and Bodell, E3 Gallery, and Umbrella Arts. And started coming here in the late 70’s so it feels like home.

Thanks also to all who came including friends near and far! And to and for the photos, and for his pro hanging and exhibition graphic skills.

I had a great time presenting at last night in the beautiful La Plaza Cultural Community Garden. (Deemed “The MacGyver edition” for its extension cords and lack of WiFi, I can’t think of a more charming venue.)

Thanks to , , , , and for the opportunity to share my typographic adventures!

📷 : Karl Heine

Please join me THIS FRIDAY in New York for the opening reception of

May 17, 2024
5:30-8:30PM
WHISTLE
267 E 10th Street
New York, NY 10009

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Polaroid of — framed and embellished Photo Booth image with vintage doll and found vintage plastic toys and shells on thrift store pedestal for show at Mark Cleighton McLaughlin Gallery in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA #1985

Thanks to and for inviting me to exhibit “Life as a Lookbook” 2024 — a small assortment of 95 digital images running on a containing self portraits and performance stills in collaboration with other photographers (art forms I have used since the early 80s) wearing mostly apparel I have designed and a few curated vintage pieces. Along with photos by me of wearing apparel I have designed and photos he has taken of me, plus a few by various known and unknown people that have photographed us together.

This work is not about fashion but on the fringe of it. It is about using my body as a kinetic sculpture, style as an art form and creating textile designs as a way to process life. From noise in the mind to explosions of color, along with the juxtaposition of shape, line and text that in combination and action set me free. A form of problem-solving, a celebration, a way of life.

LOOK BOOK
An eye-catching group exhibition of contemporary art.
March 14-May 25, 2024
Opening Reception: March 21, 6-8pm
The Gallery Upstairs
The Institute Library
847 Chapel Street
New Haven

In contrast to West Side Story with the Sharks and the Jets, welcome to the MegaGlam East Side Story with the Horseshoe Crab Rescue and Plastic Horse Rescue where we actively work to protect both of these endangered but unrelated species. For completely different reasons.
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Jellyfish and B***s from a few years back. I make hundreds of analog and digital drawing that I don’t share here. I found this when looking for something else and it what I imagine to be happening below the surface of the sound where I live in this gray and rainy day.
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Signs of the Times series, “Ditch Yer Plastic Friends” 2024 (detail) for Thinking Inside the Box show at and .studios Trefz Forum

Artists Reception: March 21, 6-8pm
VersoFest: April 4-7

Ocean plastics, reclaimed plastic toys, found plywood, metal screws.

80% of all plastic toys end up in a landfill. Shipping companies throw away significant amounts of plywood, foam and other waste every day. When will enough be enough?

instructions for happiness: be yourself.

Had a great time presenting my work on The Carbon Almanac and how I weaved it into new projects to amplify the call for climate action at last week with fellow TCA alum Scott Hamilton.

Thanks to the amazing Costanza Mancini — the student from Milan who reached out to bring the book and movement to fellow classmates at and to the dozens who showed up to engage with us. 💖🌔

MegaGlam “Crimes Against Nature 4 Money” at Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center in affiliation with Smithsonian through April 21st.

“Crimes against nature 4 money” at in association with through April 21, 2024

but only because just happened upon this unseen capture by our friend from during Miami

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apparel collab with Karl who provided his stellar photography of plastic ghost fishing net on for the textile he is wearing on the jacket, hat and t-shirt I designed for him.

I met , a master of 👩🏻‍🎤 and 💇🏼‍♀️, and owner of via the talented whom I met at a tech conference over 12 years ago. Not only is Will the best at what he does professionally he is smart, kind, creative, and generous of spirit and (as far as I can tell) beloved by all who know him. Every time I see him, he introduces me to other client friends who clearly love him as much as I do, and who are also engaging, interesting, creative and accomplished people. It is what Will attracts by nature, he is a connector and conduit of goodness and diversity. I also knew I was in the right place when I first arrived at his salon in 2012 to find his tagline at Whistle was, “Look Less Ugly.” This remains my favorite tagline of all time. It’s unpretentious and funny, yet also true of what his business offers. And, it cleverly causes the reader to immediately reconsider the myths of beauty. Will has the magic and skill to make anyone look their best on the outside, and also the heart, sensitivity and authentic caring to make anyone he comes in contact with seen and valued.

Since I am not in charge of any humanitarian awards, I instead made him this piece of art that I hope makes him feel celebrated for all he brings to his East Village shop, and all who travel far and wide to see him at Whistle, he is a beacon of light and love. 💖

Benefit at — SALE IS ON NOW — visit VisualAids.org to buy art for this great cause before it’s all gone!

Grateful that my work “Crimes Against Nature 4 Money” made from discarded plastics and plywood has been chosen for the upcoming exhibition “Metamorphosis: Recycled, Repurposed, Reimagined” at the Kay Daugherty Gallery within Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center in Association with the Smithsonian Institution.

Thanks so much to artist Janine Brown for her generosity in making me aware of the show, which she recognized is about something I care deeply about.

🗓️ Exhibition Dates:
• February 9, 2024 - April 21, 2024

🎉 Opening Reception - Annmarie After Hours:
• February 9, 2024, from 5 PM to 7 PM

🌍 Featured at Earth Arts Fest:
• April 20, 2024
Curated by Siobhan Starrs, Exhibition Developer and Sustainability Champion from the National Museum of Natural History, The Smithsonian Institution.

📍 Venue:
• Kay Daugherty Gallery, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Solomons, Maryland.

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Thanks to all who visited our studio this year or stopped me in the streets and at the art fairs to learn about my art and art-as-fashion-as-art and how I use design as a form of advocacy and activism on behalf of preserving and protecting the environment and reducing plastic production and pollution.

Here’s to a more caring 2024 and incorporating a mantra of wellness for all living things illustrated by our intentions and actions.

Varying my dimensions at the exhibition in — an art exhibition, book and permanent digital archive telling the story of the artists that lived and worked in Miami between 1996-2012

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Timing is everything. Bumped into our friends and super talented artists and at — Mike took this photo to share with our beloved friend of — the lynchpin of our knowing one another. 💖

’s “Often, we desire an easy solution.” at epitomizes the issue with the work I do around .

As my shirt says “Plastic is Oil.” A reality many may not know and those that do often prefer not to be inconvenienced by.

This is a 1-of-1 edition T-shirt intended, as always, to be viewed as my original art. In this case a collaboration with who shot the background oil slick abstraction used in the textile design. My artform confuses some@people as most think creativity worn on the body is somehow a different classification than non-human kinetic sculpture or other dimensional works that are hung on walls, or even “performed.” But, I never conform for the sake of fitting in, and find it important to speak up about the perils of complicated issues like plastic pollution.

(Props to and for their deep work and dedication to this cause.)
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It’s that MegaGlam time — 15th year launching my at while scooping the freshest happenings via with
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I had a time presenting my work on character development yesterday in ’s business practices class in the Illustration and comics BFA program at to a group of engaged, talented students.

Thank you for suggesting me to Canvas Rebel for my creative work around environmental issues and plastic pollution. And to Eric and his team at CR for their wonderful work and this expansive interview.

CanvasRebel.com

Thank you to Janine Brown for suggesting me to Canvas Rebel for my creative work around environmental issues and plastic pollution. And to Eric and his team for their wonderful work.

Meet kHyal ! We caught up with the brilliant and insightful kHyal ! a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below. kHyal, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you. In my case, it’s been more about chan...

Signs of the Times — Wake Up and Smell the Plastic.

In 2022, toy industry sales topped $7.7 billion. Most toys are made of plastic and contain a mix of materials that can’t be recycled. They are also assembled with toxic adhesives and hardware that make it impossible to easily take them apart to separate any components for reuse. Many are have batteries sealed inside. 80% end up in a landfill.

Almost all of the battery operated plastic toys I find headed to the landfill and buy to keep them out to use as art supplies have the batteries in them. So in addition to harmful chemicals leaching into the soil, air and water from plastics, batteries leach hazardous compounds and can cause large fires. It’s actually illegal to put batteries in mixed garbage or recycling bins in many places and yet it occurs constantly.

When batteries are recycled, toxins are neutralized and mined metals can be recovered for reuse, which reduces the need to mine new materials and the supply chain issues that go with that including slavery.

It’s time to make better choices for ourselves, each other and the planet.

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