11 horizontal murals outside of small businesses on Park Heights Ave. through a city initiative called Design for Distancing --- Developed in the summer of 2020 in response to COVID-19 and the challenges faced by local businesses, the Design for Distancing program called on Baltimore’s world class design and public health communities to develop innovative approaches to safe, physically distant gathering.

10' x 10' x 10'

Exterior/horizontal murals 

2020

Park Heights Ave. NW Baltimore, MD

Large Scale Placemaking, Collaborative Horizontal Murals, Fence weaving, Semi- Permanent Abstract Steel Sculpture  

Unsafe routes for students to travel to local school, % of homeowners declining, desire for beautification, need a place for kids to peacefully play and interact 

Partnership with city planning and local Elementary/Middle School, design workshops with youth, door knocking, community art events that engaged residents in the painting process, worked with Department of Transportation for road closures and approval, special events permits  

 20+ volunteers from Park Heights neighborhood and other areas of Baltimore City contributed to painting and beautification of the Pimlico triangle park, 12 middle school students engaged in design workshops and implementation of project, parents and residents asking “What’s next? We want more!”, additional slots money funds 100k allocated to next phase of wayfinding project for 2020

Starting in the spring of 2016, the Darley Park community collaborated with BUILD, NDC and myself to fund a mural at the Darley Park Gateway Park, offering a welcoming entrance to the neighborhood. The park is the heart of this community, a place to gather, play, exist together, and the community has worked hard for years to create what was once vacant lots into a thriving park.  In 2018, with further support from the BOPA Transformative Art Grant, in collaboration with TT the Artist and local students we created the Sun Stage Sails project, as part of the Neighborhood Lights Event. Later that year, I was able to return and contribute a second mural flanking the gateway with the help of BOPA, NDC, and a team of community members. 

http://www.ndc-md.org/photo-story-darley-park-mural-installation/

While working on a mural West Baltimore, I was approached by a representative from Bon Secours Hospital and employed to design the Bon Secours Centennial mural on 2000 W. Baltimore St, involving the help of local residents and volunteers from Grace Lutheran Church in the painting process. Since the completion of the mural in July 2018, I was invited back to design and paint two murals on shipping containers on the Bon Secours Urban Farm, and two food delivery trucks. 

http://baltimoretimes-online.com/news/2018/aug/17/mural-project-helps-beautiful-corner-west-baltimor/#.W3sQriB2gsw.facebook

Refridgerated food trucks serve 10,000lbs. of food a week to residents in Riverdale Park Maryland / Prince George's County. Worked with local non profits, artists and Kaiser Permanente to design and execute the visual branding of the food access project. 

Commission works at T. Rowe Price, Fayetteville AR and personal residents' home in SW Baltimore.

The Cover Up Series reflects on our ability to "cover up" the truth with white lies or white guilt or white supremacy. Each work has a complex lines and colors that become defaced or covered by the whiteness. Works are done in a variety of materials and mediums. 

This is a series of portrait photos incorporated into abstract paintings and murals in order to connect the viewer to a narrative. Some of the works are commissioned murals and others are studio explorations. 

Cycles is an arts and social justice project addressing women’s health issues in neighborhoods in East Baltimore. I collaborate with women and girls to create an illustrated resource book about women’s health topics. After creating the book, female participants will distribute the book to their community members and host their own visual storytelling workshops.

The large graffiti drawings document my memories and discoveries about my body through my own experiences and stories told to me by other women. I use drawing to vent about the western medical system and reveal alternative options to women’s health issues.

The interactive bathroom installations are a part of my research for the Cycles book project to gather additional stories and concerns to address in the book. I initiate the conversation with a drawing and written prompt. Viewers are asked to contribute anonymously when visiting the public restrooms.

An interactive PDF training manual called “Implementing Physical Rehabilitation Services into Comprehensive Fistula and Maternity Care: A Training Guide for Health Care Workers” including over 50 original illustrations and posters. Created in 2019 with physical therapists working in clinics and in the field of women’s health. Supported by larger international organizations like Engendered Health,
Conducted research on medical drawings and design layout options for low literacy patients. 

Increasingly high rates of women with fistula, stigma of women living with fistula, lack of resource materials for health care workers treating women with fistula and other reproductive health issues, out of date visuals and information.

***Digital download available for free on Mama, LLC website and Engendered Health, additional funding of 5k secured for translation into french, swahili, and portuguese. Physiotherapists and health care workers are saying, “The illustrations are stunning!”