yummypony

I have over fifteen years of experience in professional Graphic Design and I have created digital and print assets, packaging, technical manuals, album covers, flyers, social media imagery, and physical signage.

During a several year stint as a packaging designer for the Dollar Tree, I was in charge of healthcare design. This allowed me to have such wonderful items in my portfolio as "Feminine Anti-Itch Cream"  and "Anti-diarrheal Medicine." Before the global pandemic you could find me teaching graphic design courses as an adjunct professor at Tidewater Community College in Portsmouth, VA, and animation at the Governor’s School for the Arts.

For more comprehensive design work you can view my Behance portfolio here.

I have over seventeen years of experience working in digital video as an editor, videographer, and producer. In short, I am a one woman production team.

My professional experience includes; documentary, narrative, educational, marketing, and local television. Additionally, I produce my own comedic content and engaging videos for children that promote self love and personal wellness.

Several years ago I began participating in an exercise called "CreativeSprint", started by Noah Scalin - the mastermind the "Skull-a-day"  project and Micah Scalin- his sister and partner in ALR Designs. The idea is to commit to creating something everyday for 30 days either using their prompts, or taking it in a direction of your own. Participating in this has been invaluable to my creative practice. It has helped me be less precious, and redefined my relationship to failure.  Even when not participating in one of these sprints, I try to create something almost every day. This is a sampling of some of the work I have created within this context.

 You can read an interview with me on their website here.

Photoshop compositing is one of my favorite ways to express my whims.

I’ve been doing a lot of experimenting with creating sample based music / sound collage and I’ve been put together a few visualizer videos to go with the songs.

Hey. , 2017

Neon, Arduino, Proximity Sensor

Sometimes “Hey” just means “Hey.” Sometimes it means, “I’m sorry.” Sometimes, “I miss you.” And occasionally, “Take your f@#$%*& hands off of me.” Regardless it is always an initiation - reaching across the void to make contact with another human being.

Modern correspondence is primarily words and images viewed through a glass barrier. Devoid of verbal cues, the text based communication upon which we rely leaves us to create our own context. We project our assumptions onto the words of others.

'Hey." and its material studies beg the viewer to question the limitations of remote communication.

Hey. Material Studies , 2017

Mixed Media

Be Good Do Good , 2016 - Present

Metal Stamped Pennies

Be Good Do Good is an ongoing project wherein I metal stamp the words "Be Good" and "Do Good" on single pennies. Be Good on the front and Do Good on the back, and leave them around in random places for others to find, or not find. To save or to lose. 

Messages from the universe.

Dating back to the Dada movement, found poetry has long been a useful creative practice. Working with a found piece of text, such as a newspaper or page of a book, an individual can create poetry within the constraints of the words on the page. 

Sometimes silly, sometimes profound, these exercises are an integral part of my creative practice.

Each year at Pilchuck Glass School in the stunning pacific northwest, a group of artist are awarded the John H. Hauberg fellowship. 

In 2017 myself and three other artists were awarded this fellowship under our collaborative title "Tempestuous Commons"

Our proposal was to explore pathways to new work using the female form as a tool for visual narrative. These images represent a selection of our explorations.