Yesterday I wrote a post about how much I like On Island Time…
This morning I Googled the author and illustrator to show the book to a friend, only to be shocked by the word “obituary.” Chandler O’Leary died unexpectedly last April from a sudden and vigorous case of pneumonia. My heart sank.
Today I’ve been looking at all of her work online, and gosh, is it prolific. I decided to share it with you, too. I love getting a window into someone’s life through their art, and Chandler had two websites where she showed the things she was working on in detail: chandleroleary.com and drawntheroadagain.com.
First, here is her life in her words from her About page on the first site:
I am an illustrator, letterer(erer) and entrepreneur living and working in the Pacific Northwest. I graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and I started my one-woman business in 2004. I was born 50 miles west of Wall Drug, grew up on Cape Cod, spent a year in Rome, and have crept more or less westward ever since. Now I’ve settled in Washington State with my husband and son, in a century-old Craftsman house overlooking the Salish Sea. It sits within the traditional homelands of the Puyallup people, who have lived and worked here for millennia—they know this area as caləłali in the txwəlšucid (Twulshootseed) language. On summer nights the light from a pair of lighthouses blinks through my bedroom window, and from my studio I can hear gulls crying and sea lions barking—my favorite sounds in the world. I spend my days drawing pictures and every free moment criss-crossing the continent on winding back roads.
In addition to doing illustration and lettering for clients, I spend a lot of my time on personal side projects, like the prints and stationery I create under my house brand, Anagram Press. I also post my sketchbook drawings and road-trip-themed artwork on my illustrated travel blog, Drawn the Road Again. And I am one half of the team behind the Dead Feminists series, and our first book, published in 2016 by Sasquatch Books, won a Pacific Northwest Book Award. My second book, The Best Coast: A Road Trip Atlas, was published 2019 with a companion book of postcards that followed in 2020. My newest book, On Island Time, arrives in February 2023 from Sasquatch Books, and an illustrated compendium of the Salish Sea is coming in 2025.
Still have questions about who the heck I am or what I do? Try my FAQ.
Now for some beautiful samples of her art from the sites above. I’ve spent all day feasting on it; I can’t get enough. I even put her pen recommendations in my Amazon cart.
Here is an article published in the Seattle Times about her:
Chandler O’Leary, Tacoma illustrator, author, dies at 41
Spend just a little time with the illustrations of Tacoma artist and author Chandler O’Leary, and two strong qualities immediately emerge from the page: curiosity and care.
Those are evident in the tenderness of her renderings — there’s no strictness or harshness in her lines, and even brick walls and steel hulls look a little fluid — as well as the intense attention to details, even when most people might never see them.
O’Leary, 41, died unexpectedly on April 2 from a sudden, acute case of pneumonia.
Behind the inside flaps of her most recent book, “On Island Time: A Traveler’s Atlas” (excerpted in the Feb. 5 issue of Pacific NW magazine in The Seattle Times), O’Leary included small, notable road signs and mailboxes she’d seen on her travels around Vashon, Orcas, Salt Spring and other islands in the Salish Sea.
“She would’ve sketched everything she ever saw every day of her life if she’d had time,” said her husband, Donald Sidman. “She had an eye for the unique, the bizarre and all that was beautiful.”
Jessica Spring, a Tacoma letterpress printer, was O’Leary’s longtime neighbor, collaborator and friend. “I can’t even describe how this city is grieving,” she said. O’Leary, Spring explained, “moved in so many circles” — not only as an illustrator, but in public art, textiles, hand-lettered sign painting for small businesses and more.
“You can see her influence all over,” Spring said. “During studio-tour days in Tacoma each year, people would wait on the street to get in. She was beloved.”
That quality of care also translated into holding — and acting on — strong convictions.
A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, O’Leary moved to Tacoma with Sidman in 2008 and met Spring shortly thereafter. During the 2008 presidential campaign, with Barack Obama and Joe Biden running against John McCain and Sarah Palin, the two artists were staunch Obama supporters but were struck by how relentlessly commentators focused on Palin’s appearance: her clothes, her lipstick, her glasses.
Spring had found a quote from 19th-century writer and activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (“Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles and see the world is moving”) and asked O’Leary if she could draw Palin’s glasses to go with it, for a print.
“Well, she drew the whole damn quote!” Spring said. “I was like, ‘Wow, dude, that’ll work!’” Hand-lettering, it turned out, was an O’Leary specialty.
The pair printed 44 broadsides of the quote — for the election of the 44th president — in Spring’s shop. People snapped them up almost immediately.
They were onto something: The Dead Feminists project was born. From 2008 to 2022, the pair printed 33 broadsides, each in response to some problem or event (gun violence, persistent racism, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill) featuring a quote from a historic feminist (Emma Goldman, Ida B. Wells, Sarojini Naidu).
Besides their exquisite illustrations, coloring and lettering, the broadsides included deeply researched details, some encoded visually: The lettering, for example, would be inspired by lettering and typefaces popular at the time the given feminist was alive. Spring and O’Leary donated a portion of the proceeds from each broadside to a related nonprofit or campaign.
The name “Dead Feminists” was a private joke between the two of them for years, until O’Leary insisted on making it official. “It’s a little hard to be left with that,” Spring said. “Because now she is a dead feminist — and it hurts.”
The broadside series led to a co-authored book with Seattle publisher Sasquatch Books, which led to two travel books O’Leary wrote and illustrated on her own: “The Best Coast: A Road Trip Atlas” (tracing coastal routes in Washington, Oregon and California) and “On Island Time,” which has become a regional bestseller.
“It’s so tragic Chandler is not here to see its continued success,” said Hannah Elnan, O’Leary’s editor at Sasquatch. “She was really a lovely person in addition to being an incredibly talented artist — it’s definitely a shock.”
Born at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota, O’Leary had a peripatetic military childhood and finished high school in Fargo, N.D., before attending RISD. Besides illustrating, she worked in graphic design, embroidery and weaving and had been following a new interest in patterns for textiles and wallpaper. “She was curious about everything,” her husband said. “I find that even people who knew her well are astonished when they see the range of things she did and designed.”
University of Puget Sound will host “Drawn to Tacoma,” an exhibition of O’Leary’s work, at the Collins Memorial Library from May 10-24, with a reception on Friday, May 12, from 4-6 p.m. Friends have set up a GoFundMe campaign in O’Leary’s memory to support her family.
O’Leary is survived by her husband, Sidman; their son; her brother Adrian O’Leary; extended family; and, Sidman said, “many close friends.”
Brendan Kiley is a Pacific NW magazine staff writer. Reach him at bkiley@seattletimes.com or 206-464-2507.
Chandler, you will be missed. Even by those of us who just heard about you, your life, and your art. I was so excited to happen upon your book. Your art lives on for you.
I will end on a note of listing Chandler’s myriad accomplishments, no doubt due to her delight in making art of the world around her. The list is astounding. May you, too, pursue your passions from this minute on. Don’t delay.
Curator Roster: ArtsWA, Seattle, WA, 2022-present
Art in Public Places Public Artist Roster: ArtsWA, Seattle, WA, 2021-present
Wright Artist Fellow Award: Annie Wright Schools, Tacoma, WA, 2022
Visiting Instructor: Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, 2022
Tacoma Artists Initiative Program Award: Tacoma Arts Commission, 2021
MAC Fellowship Award: Robert B. McMillen Foundation, Seattle, WA, 2020
Co-Curator/Exhibit Designer: Washington State History Museum, Tacoma, WA, 2019-2020
Instructor: School of Visual Concepts, Seattle, WA, 2009-present
Guest Curator: Washington State History Museum, Tacoma, WA, 2018-2019
Visiting Artist: Antenna, New Orleans, LA, 2018
Visiting Artist: Whitworth University, Spokane, WA, 2018
Pacific Northwest Book Award: Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, 2018
Foundation of Art Award: Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, 2017
Juror: Rising Together Exhibition, College Book Arts Association, 2017
Visiting Artist: Longwood University, Farmville, VA, 2017
Featured Artist: Mapping the Cosmos, CODEX Foundation letterpress broadside collection, 2016
Featured Artist: The Women on the Mother Road, Assertion Films oral history project, 2016
Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) Award: Artist Trust, Seattle, WA, 2016
Tacoma Artists Initiative Program Award: Tacoma Arts Commission, 2015
Nominee: Foundation of Art Award, Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, 2013
Visiting Instructor: Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, 2012
Bronze Award: Excellence in Design, CASE Awards, 2012
Board Member: Book Arts Guild, Seattle, WA: 2009-2012
Featured Artist: Roadworks, San Francisco Center for the Book, CA, 2011
Featured Speaker: Art & Industry, first-annual Ladies of Letterpress Conference, Asheville, NC, 2011
Selected Artist: Public Art: In Depth, City of Tacoma, WA, 2011
Juror: Senior Art Show Exhibition, Franke Tobey Jones, 2011
Tacoma Artists Initiative Program Award: Tacoma Arts Commission, 2009
Nominee: Foundation of Art Award, Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, 2009
Finalist: Art vs. Design, Artists Wanted, Brooklyn, NY, 2009
Artist-in-Residence: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN, 2007
Minnesota Book Award: Minnesota Humanities Commission, 2005
Visiting Artist: Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN, 2003
Drawing Parallels: A Tacoma Neighborhood Sketchbook, Tacoma Arts Commission (virtual exhibition), 2022
Broadsides: Dead Feminists, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY, 2022
And Then She Said: Voices of Feminists Past & Present, University of Washington Libraries, 2021-22
Wordplay: Daredevils & Dead Feminists, Willis Smith Gallery, Ringling College of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL, 2020
Words of Action, PCAF Gallery, Tacoma, WA, 2018
conTEXT, Antenna, New Orleans, LA, 2018
Re-Sisters, Bryan Oliver Gallery, Whitworth University, Spokane, WA, 2018
She Tells Sea Tales, NW Maritime Center Gallery, Port Townsend, WA, 2017
Broad Words, Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville, VA, 2017
The 50 States, School of Visual Concepts Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2016-2017
Bold Broadsides & Bitsy Books, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, 2016-2017
Farm to Table, Collins Memorial Library, Tacoma, WA, 2016-2017
Make-Ready: Dead Feminists from Print to Page, 23Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR, 2016
Dead Feminists: Broads and Broadsides, School of Visual Concepts Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2016
The 50 States, Ted Sanford Gallery, University Place, WA, 2016
Jaunt + Jot, Feast Arts Center, Tacoma, WA, 2016
Drawn the Road Again, Handforth Gallery, Tacoma, WA, 2014
You’ll Like Tacoma, Brooks Dental Studio, Tacoma, WA, 2014
Hillside Sketchbook, Woolworth Windows, Tacoma, WA, 2012
Local Conditions, Collins Memorial Library, Tacoma, WA, 2010-2011
Feminist Wiles, Ted Sanford Gallery, University Place, WA, 2010
Mnemonic Sampler, The Tempest, Tacoma, WA, 2010
In Her Element, Tacoma Contemporary, Tacoma, WA, 2009
Flock, Rosewood Cafe, Tacoma, WA, 2009
Mnemonic Sampler, Pacific Lutheran University Gallery, Parkland, WA, 2009
To the Letter, Collins Memorial Library, Tacoma, WA, 2009
The Faery Gardener, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN, 2007
Collected, Gallery 4, Fargo, ND, 2003
Art Center College of Design (Archetype Press Collection), Pasadena, CA
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (Cynthia Sears Collection), Bainbridge Island, WA
The Baldwin School (Anne Frank Library), Bryn Mawr, PA
Baylor University (Crouch Fine Arts Library), Waco, TX
Baylor University (Moody Memorial Library), Waco, TX
Brigham Young University (Harold B. Lee Library), Provo, UT
Brown University (Harris Collection of American Poetry & Plays), Providence, RI
California College of the Arts (Artists’ Book Collection), San Francisco, CA
Carleton College (Gould Library), Northfield, MN
Carnegie Mellon University (Hunt Library), Pittsburgh, PA
City of Kitakyushu (Mayor’s Office Collection), Kitakyushu, Japan
City of Tacoma (Portable Works Collection), Tacoma, WA
City of Tacoma (Public Art Collection), Tacoma, WA
College of Charleston (Department of Women and Gender Studies, Special Collections), Charleston, SC
Dartmouth College (Book Arts Workshop), Hanover, NH
Denison University (Doane Library Special Collections), Granville, OH
Duluth Public Library (Duluth Collection), Duluth, MN
Emory University (Woodruff Library), Atlanta, GA
Frances Perkins Center (Perkins Homestead National Historic Landmark), Newcastle, ME
Florida Atlantic University Libraries, Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Boca Raton, FL
George Mason University (Fenwick Library), Fairfax, VA
Grinnell College (Grinnell Libraries Special Collections), Grinnell, IA
Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, Two Rivers, WI
Harvard University (Widener Library), Cambridge, MA
Hennepin County Library (Hosmer Special Collections), Minneapolis, MN
Hennepin County Library (Ridgedale Library), Minnetonka, MN
Idaho State University (Eli M. Oboler Library), Pocatello, ID
Indiana University (Herman B. Wells Library), Bloomington, IN
International Printing Museum (Prints Collection), Carson, CA
Lafayette College (Skillman Library Special Collections), Easton, PA
Library of Congress (Rare Book & Special Collections Division), Washington, DC
Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville, VA
Louisiana State University (Hill Memorial Library Special Collections), Baton Rouge, LA
Miami University Library (Havighurst Special Collections), Oxford, OH
Mills College (Olin Library Special Collections), Oakland, CA
Minneapolis College of Art & Design Library, Minneapolis, MN
Minnesota Center for Book Arts (Alcott Library), Minneapolis, MN
Minnesota History Center (Library Special Collections), Saint Paul, MN
Multnomah County Library (Wilson Special Collections), Portland, OR
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Newberry Library (Americana Collection), Chicago, IL
Newberry Library (John M. Wing History of Printing Collection), Chicago, IL
Northwestern University (Deering Library Special Collections), Evanston, IL
Nova Southeastern University (Farquhar College of Arts & Sciences), Fort Lauderdale, FL
Occidental College (Mary Norton Clapp Library), Los Angeles, CA
Phoenix Public Library (Rare Book Room), Phoenix, AZ
Pierce County Art Bank (Portable Works Collection), Tacoma, WA
Radcliffe Institute (Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America), Cambridge, MA
Rhode Island School of Design (Fleet Library), Providence, RI
Ringling College of Art & Design (Goldstein Library), Sarasota, FL
Robert Russa Moton Museum, Farmville, VA
Rochester Institute of Technology (Cary Graphic Arts Collection), Rochester, NY
Saint Olaf College (Rolvaag Memorial Library), Northfield, MN
San Diego State University (Special Collections), San Diego, CA
San Francisco Center for the Book (Prints Collection), San Francisco, CA
San Jose State University (King Library), San Jose, CA
Savannah College of Art & Design (ACA Library), Atlanta, GA
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Flaxman Library), Chicago, IL
Scripps College (Ella Strong Denison Library), Claremont, CA
Seattle Art Museum (Bullitt Library), Seattle, WA
Smith College (Young Library), Northampton, MA
South Berwick Public Library (Special Collections), South Berwick, ME
Stanford University (Bowes Art & Architecture Library), Palo Alto, CA
Stanford University (Green Library American History Collection), Palo Alto, CA
State Library of New South Wales (Mitchell Library), Sydney, Australia
Tauber Holocaust Library, San Francisco, CA
Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library (Special Collections), Topeka, KS
Tulane University (Newcomb Archives & Vorhoff Collection), New Orleans, LA
University of Alberta (Rutherford Library, Bruce Peel Special Collections), Edmonton, AB, Canada
University of Arizona Libraries (Special Collections), Tucson, AZ
University of California Berkeley (Bancroft Library Special Collections), Berkeley, CA
University of California Davis (Shields Library Special Collections), Davis, CA
University of California Los Angeles (Darling BioMedical Library Special Collections), Los Angeles, CA
University of California Los Angeles (Young Research Library Special Collections), Los Angeles, CA
University of California Riverside (UCR Library Special Collections), Riverside, CA
University of California San Diego (Geisel Library Special Collections), San Diego, CA
University of California Santa Barbara (Davidson Library Special Collections), Santa Barbara, CA
University of California Santa Cruz (McHenry Library Special Collections), Santa Cruz, CA
University of Chicago (Special Collections Research Center), Chicago, IL
University of Connecticut (Dodd Research Center), Storrs, CT
University of Delaware (Morris Library Special Collections), Newark, DE
University of Denver (Penrose Library Special Collections), Denver, CO
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Ricker Fine Art Library), Urbana, IL
University of Indianapolis (Krannert Memorial Library), Indianapolis, IN
University of Iowa Center for the Book, Iowa City, IA
University of Iowa Libraries (Special Collections), Iowa City, IA
University of Miami (Richter Library, Artists’ Books Collection), Coral Gables, FL
University of Nevada, Reno (Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center), Reno, NV
University of Puget Sound (Collins Memorial Library), Tacoma, WA
University of Southern California (Doheny Library), Los Angeles, CA
University of Utah (Marriott Library), Salt Lake City, UT
University of Vermont (Billings Library Special Collections), Burlington, VT
University of Vermont (Silver Library Special Collections), Burlington, VT
University of Virginia (Small Special Collections Library), Charlottesville, VA
University of Washington Libraries (Book Arts Collection), Seattle, WA
University of Wisconsin (Kohler Art Library), Madison, WI
Virginia Commonwealth University (Cabell Library Special Collections), Richmond, VA
Walker Art Center (Furtak Collection), Minneapolis, MN
Washington State Historical Society (WA State History Research Center Collections), Tacoma, WA
Washington State Library (Special Collections), Tumwater, WA
Wellesley College (Clapp Library Special Collections), Wellesley, MA
Wesleyan University (Olin Library Special Collections), Middletown, CT
Whitworth University (Cowles Memorial Library), Spokane, WA
Yale University (Haas Arts Library Special Collections), New Haven, CT
Scripts, Scribes and Scribbles, Collins Memorial Library, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, 2023
Every Day & Special Days, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA, 2021
Voices Across Her/Story (virtual exhibition), College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, 2021
Rising Together: Artists’ Books & Prints with a Social Conscience, 2018-2021
Traveling exhibition:
– Spring 2021: San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
– Spring 2020: Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA
– Fall 2019: University of Iowa Center for the Book, Iowa City, IA
– Spring 2019: Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
– Fall 2018: University of Utah Marriott Library, Salt Lake City, UT
Votes for Women: 100 Years & Counting, Washington State History Museum, Tacoma, WA, 2020-2021
Hindsight 20/20, Brooks Dental Studio, Tacoma, WA, 2021
Make Ready for the Revolution (virtual exhibition), Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH, 2020
Craftmanship at its Finest: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Modern Day Tacoma, Collins Memorial Library, Tacoma, WA, 2020
Frozen Warnings, Bushel Collective, Delhi, NY, 2020
The Book as Art: The Page and Beyond, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2019
A Thousand Words’ Worth, Washington State History Museum, Tacoma, WA, 2019
Open Sesame: The Magic of Artist’s Books Revealed, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA, 2019
Letterpress: Making Impressions, The Art Project, Bainbridge Island, WA, 2019
Seed the Vote, Kohler Art Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 2018
A Seat at the Table, Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, Boston, MA, 2018
Book, Art, Object, Penrose Library, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, 2018
Decade, Brooks Dental Studio, Tacoma, WA, 2018
Wonder Women, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, 2017
The Girl in the Diary: Searching for Rywka from the Łódź Ghetto, Galicia Jewish Museum, Kraków, Poland, 2017
GTCF Foundation of Art Award, Spaceworks Gallery, Tacoma, WA, 2017
Wayzgoose, Woolworth Windows, Tacoma, WA, 2017
Northwest Musings, Collins Memorial Library, Tacoma, WA, 2017
The Illustrated Accordion, Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, Kalamazoo, MI, 2017
Letterpress Hullaballoo, Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center Gallery, Indianapolis, IN, 2017
Slinging Ink, Chartreuse Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, 2016
Type, Paper, Scissors: A Broadside Exhibit, Transition Gallery, Pocatello, ID, 2016
Heavy Metal, Berkeley Art Works, Martinsburg, WV, 2016
Bridging the Waters, Centre for Fine Print Research, University of West England, Bristol, UK, 2016
The Art of the Book, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA, 2016
Wayzgoose, traveling exhibition:
– Woolworth Windows, Tacoma, WA, 2016
– Brooks Dental Studio, Tacoma, WA, 2016
6th Annual Puget Sound Book Artists, Collins Memorial Library, Tacoma, WA, 2016
Just One Look, Special Collections Gallery, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, WA, 2016
Flow, 23Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR, 2016
The Story Depends on the Teller: Book Arts in the Pacific Northwest, Pacific Lutheran University Gallery, Parkland, WA, 2016
Multiple Voices, Multiple Histories: Reimagining the Civil War, Alice C. Sabatini Gallery, Topeka, KS, 2016
Ladies of Letterpress Book Show, Bookworks Gallery, Asheville, NC, 2015
Beyond Brand, Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, 2015
Bakken Boom: Artists Respond to the ND Oil Rush, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND, 2015
The Contained Narrative: Defining the Contemporary Artist Book, MCBA Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, 2015
Carpe Librum 2015, Bainbridge Arts & Crafts Gallery, Bainbridge Island, WA, 2015
Artifacts of Loss: Memorial in Artists’ Books, UW Allen Library Special Collections Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2015
5th Annual Puget Sound Book Artists, Collins Memorial Library, Tacoma, WA, 2015
Curated Collection: Broadsides, 23Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR, 2015
CODEX Finds, 23Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR, 2015
Sacred/Profane, 23Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR, 2014
The Mother Hen Project, Room Gallery, Mill Valley, CA, 2014
Capitolized, TypeCon, Washington, DC, 2014
Grafiikan Mestareita (Masters of Printmaking), Galleria Dix, Helsinki, Finland, 2014
Ink This, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, 2014
The Printed Page, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO, 2014
Book Power Redux, traveling exhibition:
— 23Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR, 2014
— Collins Memorial Library, Tacoma, WA, 2014
Wayzgoose Retrospective, Brooks Dental Studio, Tacoma, WA, 2014
Tacoma Playing Cards, STAR Center, Tacoma, WA, 2014
Steamroller Prints, Ted Sanford Gallery, University Place, WA, 2014
Undercover Stories: the Secret Lives of Books, artEAST Gallery, Issaquah, WA, 2014
Wordplay: The Materiality of Text in the Modern Book Arts, Suzzallo Library, Seattle, WA, 2014
Wayzgoose, Woolworth Windows, Tacoma, WA, 2014
The Art of Wayzgoose, Pacific Lutheran University Gallery, Parkland, WA, 2014
4th Annual Puget Sound Book Artists, Collins Memorial Library, Tacoma, WA, 2014
Feast, 23Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR, 2013
Eläin (Animal), Brooks Dental Studio, Tacoma, WA, 2013
Confluence, Brooks Dental Studio, Tacoma, WA, 2013
Setting Sail: Artists at Sea, Brooks Dental Studio, Tacoma, WA, 2013
Foundation of Art, Brooks Dental Studio, Tacoma, WA, 2013
The Creative World of Book Arts, Brooks Dental Studio, Tacoma, WA, 2013
Steamroller Prints, Ted Sanford Gallery, University Place, WA, 2013
Wayzgoose, Woolworth Windows, Tacoma, WA, 2013
Tacoma Playing Cards II, STAR Center, Tacoma, WA, 2013
3rd Annual Puget Sound Book Artists, Collins Memorial Library, Tacoma, WA, 2013
Tacoma Wayzgoose, Ted Sanford Gallery, University Place, WA, 2013
INKED! Contemporary Northwest Letterpress, 23Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR, 2012
Expanding Communities, BookWorks Gallery, Asheville, NC, 2012
Anniversary Broadside Exhibition, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA, 2012
Posted, Printmaking Center of New Jersey, Branchburg, NJ, 2012
Instructors, Penland Gallery, Penland, NC, 2012
Exploding the Codex, Austin/Burch Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2012
Foundation of Art, B2 Gallery, Tacoma, WA, 2012
2nd Annual Puget Sound Book Artists, Collins Memorial Library, Tacoma, WA, 2012
Abecedaria, Mid-America Print Council Biennial, Gape Girardeau, MO, 2012
Sister Cities, Kitakyushu Cultural Festival, Kitakyushu, Japan, 2012
Tacoma Playing Cards, Amocat Cafe, Tacoma, WA, 2012
Tacomapocalypse, Amocat Cafe, Tacoma, WA, 2012
The Apocalype Calendar, Challengers Comics, Chicago, IL, 2012
National Print Exhibition, Pacific Lutheran University Gallery, Parkland, WA, 2012
Wayzgoose, Woolworth Windows, Tacoma, WA, 2011
Ladies of Letterpress, BookWorks Gallery, Asheville, NC, 2011
Bookworks, Lewis-Clark State College Center for Arts & History, Lewiston, ID, 2011
Letterpress for Japan, Books Kubrick Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan, 2011
Parts of a Whole, Minnesota Center for Book Arts Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, 2011
Hand2Hand: The Book as Art, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA, WA, 2010
Page Turner: Contemporary Artist Books, Burien Arts Gallery, Burien, WA, 2010
The Mother Hen Project, Galleria, San Anselmo, CA, 2010
Make No Little Plans, Logical Diagram Gallery, Tacoma, WA, 2009-2010
Wayzgoose, Woolworth Windows, Tacoma, WA, 2009
Feminist Art, Tacoma Community College Gallery, Tacoma, WA, 2009
Front, Back & Between, Minnesota Center for Book Arts Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, 2009
Broadsided!, 23Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR, 2009
The Sketchbook Project, traveling exhibition, selected venues:
— Art House Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 2009
— Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington, DC, 2009
— Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA, 2009
— Antena Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2009
— Chicago Art Source Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2009
— Soulard Art Market, St. Louis, MO 2009
— 3rd Ward Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2009
— Museum of Design, Atlanta, GA, 2009
Wayzgoose, Woolworth Windows, Tacoma, WA, 2009
National Print Exhibition, Pacific Lutheran University Gallery, Parkland, WA, 2009
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Collins Memorial Library, Tacoma, WA, 2008
49th Midwestern, Rourke Art Museum, Moorhead, MN, 2008
48th Midwestern, Rourke Art Museum, Moorhead, MN, 2007
Action/Interaction, Columbia College Center for Book & Paper Arts, Chicago, IL, 2007
Cultivate, Stevens Square Center for the Arts, Minneapolis, MN, 2007
New Work, Minnesota Center for Book Arts Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, 2007
47th Midwestern, Rourke Art Museum, Moorhead, MN, 2006
Books Abound, Metropolitan State University, Minneapolis, MN, 2005
Bookish, Minnesota Center for Book Arts Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, 2005
Spot-On, Minnesota Center for Book Arts Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, 2005
46th Midwestern, Rourke Art Museum, Moorhead, MN, 2005
45th Midwestern, Rourke Art Museum, Moorhead, MN, 2004
Illustration, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI, 2003
Amorous Art, Rourke Gallery, Moorhead, MN, 2003
Show, ISB Gallery, Providence, RI, 2003
44th Midwestern, Rourke Art Museum, Moorhead, MN, 2003
A Woman’s Perspective, Rourke Gallery, Moorhead, MN, 2002
Primavera (Spring), Palazzetto Cenci, Rome, Italy, 2002
I Libri dei Schizzi (Sketchbooks), Palazzetto Cenci, Rome, Italy, 2001
Blank is the New Black, Chicago, IL
Bona Fide Potents, Tacoma, WA
Book Arts Guild, Seattle, WA
Broadway Center for the Performing Arts, Tacoma, WA
City of Tacoma, Tacoma, WA
Dandelion Wishes, Tacoma, WA
Destiny City Brewing, Tacoma, WA
Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA
Encore Media, Seattle, WA
Exit 133, Tacoma, WA
Hooked on Books, Colorado Springs, CO
Igloo Letterpress, Worthington, OH
Irving House, Cambridge, MA
Kafe 421, Minneapolis, MN
Kazoo Magazine, Brooklyn, NY
King’s Books, Tacoma, WA
Lettuce Press, Portland, OR
Madison Park Greetings, Seattle, WA
Meta Books, Tacoma, WA
Metro Parks, Tacoma, WA
Minneapolis Farmers Market, Minneapolis, MN
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Saint Paul, MN
Napa General Store, Napa, CA
Northwest Flower & Garden Show, Seattle, WA
Pacific Fabrics, Seattle, WA
Pint Defiance, Tacoma, WA
Quarto Publishing Group, Minneapolis, MN
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Saint Martin’s University, Lacey, WA
San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
School of Visual Concepts, Seattle, WA
Seven Stars Bakery, Providence, RI
Shelter Corporation, Hopkins, MN
Side x Side Creative, Tacoma, WA
Sonja Silver Apparel, Tacoma, WA
Stages Theatre, Hopkins, MN
Tacoma Community House, Tacoma, WA
Tacoma Food Coop, Tacoma, WA
Tacoma Makes, Tacoma, WA
Tacoma Public Utilities, Tacoma, WA
Trollwood Performing Arts School, Moorhead, MN
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
Washington State Historical Society, Tacoma, WA
Weatherly Inn, Tacoma, WA
Zerr Berg Architects, Fargo, ND
