I’m a member of MSP WordPress User’s Group, a volunteer at annual WordCamps and a member of the 'WordPress Wednesday' family. Once a week, at a collaborative work space, we sit around a big table and work, compare notes and explore local eateries.
In addition to WordPress I create motion graphics and animations and work with digital media. Usually I'm working on one of my own art projects—photography, painting, bookmaking or sculpture.
I’m a lifelong entrepreneur. My first venture—when I was seven—was selling rocks in a little shop I set up in the basement. It didn't turn out so well, but I kept on. For some reason I've always been adept at generating enthusiasm for almost any undertaking.
I earned BFA and MFA degrees at the University of Minnesota where I taught Sculpture, Drawing, and Concepts in Visual Art. My photography and sculpture have been shown nationally. I also earned an AAS degree in Web and Interactive Media at Minneapolis Community and Technical College where I was on the Dean's List and graduated with honors.
My working process fuses intuition with analysis. Ideas and solutions come to me when I'm on a walk. Working it out is where analysis comes in, going over it until I've taken care of every detail.
Post it notes, highlighters and graph paper are my tools for planning and organizing information. I love the freshness of scrawled notes. I use a free flowing pen because the kinesthetics of physically writing things down helps me think.
I save sketches, notes and preliminary designs in binders, tangible records of an ephemeral process that drifts away like smoke after the project is completed.
I try to keep a log of everything I do during the development process. It doesn't always work in the heat of the moment, but when it does it's a valuable resource, especially on days when I spend hours trying to figure something out, wishing I could remember what it was I did in the first place.
