Throughout history artists have lent their creative expression to the ideas and issues that shape life in our communities, our country and our world. The MANIFESTEQUALITY Gallery gathers together a diverse array of hundreds of the nation’s most talented visual artists under one roof to celebrate that role and join with our gay (LGBT) friends, family members and co-workers to demand full and equal rights for all Americans.
You May be Surprised at What You Grow to Love 
WEIRD!
My Grandpa Ed loved chickens. I have scrap books he made as a child filled with cut-out pictures of chickens (and peaches; chickens and peaches and a really elaborate cake thrown in here and there, but mostly chickens). This photo is from the late 1980’s (nice glasses, right?) and is of Grandpa, me and Chicken Alfredo, just another in a long line of chickens that thought they were a cat. Plus a detail of a new painting, "She Thought She Was A Cat", for my upcoming solo show:
I designed and then had multiples of three different shapes laser cut from oak to paint on for my upcoming solo exhibition at The Soo Visual Arts Center in Minneapolis. I love how they turned out but I am having such a difficult time photographing them. I like how this photograph looks but it’s not what the gallery needs from me in terms of documentation. I might need to invest in some lighting equipment.
My Uncle Don recently brought me gifts of old barn boards and an antique book of maps. I wanted to make a piece using both together.
