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The World We WAnt - Artist-Led Workshop

Join me at the Jane Adams Hull House Museum for my artist talk and workshop Wednesday, June 17th! REGISTER HERE. This workshop is a part of the Perennial City Exhibit currently on display in the museum.

I will talking about my creative practice and how my community agriculture projects weave into my creativity and world building politics.

I will also be talking about my WORLD WE WANT Seeds project and participants will get a chance to decorate their own seed pack(s) and commit to a practice that will help them grow the world they want to live in.

 
 

Shop in Person this Summer in Chicago

I’ll be vending at a few Chicago markets this summer. Locals can find me at the following events! I will be updating this throughout the season as new fairs get added.

6.13 - 10am-2pm Shop Jarvis Square - (Rogers Park, Chicago)

7.10-7.12 - Square Roots Fest (Lincoln Square, Chicago)

8.14-8.16 - Glenwood Ave Arts Fest (Rogers Park, Chicago)

 
 

Perennial City - Exhibit at the Hull-House Museum

Opening March 19, 2026 Perennial City connects early urban gardening experiments at Hull-House to today’s movements for environmental justice, food access, and land stewardship.

Featuring selected artwork from my Fertile Futures and Critical Connections bodies of work along with artist Carlos Flores, this exhibit draws on rarely seen archival materials. The exhibition reveals how Hull-House helped immigrant and working-class communities at the turn of the twentieth century reclaim unused and industrial land to grow food, sustain cultural traditions, and build healthier urban lives. Hull-House reformers recognized gardening as more than recreation: it was a way to restore agency, resist the pressures of industrialization, & imagine a more humane city.

 
 

Prisons Must Fall Children’s Book

Available now! Friends, I am so incredibly excited to finally get to share this book. “Prisons Must Fall” written by Mariame Kaba and Jane Ball, published by Haymarket Books is the first children’s book I have illustrated. I am overjoyed and so grateful to have been invited to illustrate this loving, inquisitive story from Mariame and Jane. This project has been years in the works and the largest project I have yet worked on.

Find the book at your local independent book store or grab one from my shop!

 

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