events
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workshop proposals
workshops:
 

2018, The Altered Book
San Francisco Center for the Book• San Francisco, CA

2016–Present, Introduction to Artists' Books
San Francisco Center for the Book • San Francisco, CA

2018, Artists’ Books, Zines, Wordless Books & Comics (with Julie Leonard)
Penland School of Crafts • Bakersville, NC

2016–2018, Exploring Collage: Tools & Techniques
San Francisco Center for the Book• San Francisco, CA

2016–2018, Building a Case for a Perfect-Bound Text Block
University of San Francisco • San Francisco, CA

2015, Writing the Visual: For Writers (and Non-Writers) Who 'Can't Draw' But Wish They Could
Southwestern College • Chula Vista, CA

2015, Free Generative Workshop: Writing the Visual
Public Space One • Iowa City, IA

presentations & panels:
 

April 2017, Queers + Comics Conference • San Francisco, CA
Artist talk presented as part of a panel titled Expanding Comics: New Ways to Use Words & Pictures

June 2016, Adobe Books Backroom Gallery • San Francisco, CA
Transcend|Constrain: Collective Book Dimensions
Artist talk presented as part of an exhibition titled Mesocosm

January 2016, CBAA Biennial Conference • Nashville, TN
How Many Muses: Writing Text + Image from Guide Letters to Non-photo Blue
Scholarly artist talk presented as part of a panel titled Confabulated Histories

April 2014, PCA/ACA National Conference • Chicago, IL
Narrative Disrepute: The Serial & the Extra-Textual Search for Resolution
Paper presented as part of a panel titled Material Culture in Print: Graphics, Books & Ephemera (Panel Chair)

January 2014, CBAA Biennial Conference • Salt Lake City, UT
Framed by Thumbs: Reading Raymond Pettibon
Paper presented as part of a panel titled Out of the Copy Machine, Into the Streets: Where Zines Confront Artist Books

November 2009, Mills College • Oakland, CA
Panel discussion titled Looking BOOKward and led by Julie Chen

readings & performances:

2018, Green-Eyed Monsters Zine Launch
Guest slideshow given at the Octopus Literary Salon • Oakland, CA

2015, Mission Creek Lit Crawl
Reading at NoDo Downtown featuring writers from Brooklyn Arts Press and Poetry magazine • Iowa City, IA

2015, Live from Prairie Lights
Solo reading of excerpts from The Story of How All Animals Are Equal & Other Tales • Iowa City, IA

2014, The Story of How All Animals Are Equal & Other Tales Release Party
Reading given at the Paper Nest • Iowa City, IA

2014, August Readers in Transit Series
Reading given with C.S. Ward & Sara Majka • Iowa City, IA

2013, Dia de los Halloweenes Chili Cook-off
Guest chili bard reading given with Dave Morice & Lisa Roberts at Public Space One • Iowa City, IA

2012, Why There Are Words Reading Series
Reading given at Studio 333 • Sausalito, CA

2011, Gathering the Embers: A Dia de los Muertos Tribute Show
Reading given at SOMArts • San Francisco, CA

2011, Put This In Your Gun Tour
Guest reading given at Unnameable Books • Brooklyn, NY

2011, Breaking Ranks Reading & Exhibition
Performance given at Headlands Center for the Arts • Sausalito, CA

2009, Smack Dab
Slideshow given at Kirk Read’s and Larry-bob Roberts’ monthly reading event • San Francisco, CA