‘United Plates’ Talk

National Geographic

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

National Geographic contacted me requesting a feature of my work on the travel portion of their website. I offered a few new insights to the project. Check it out here: National Geographic. This is definitely one of my favorite features so far, I’ve thumbed through National Geographic magazines for as long as I can remember. [...]

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The Smithsonian

Monday, November 29th, 2010

The Smithsonian was doing a feature display on the work of Wayne Thiebaud over the Thanksgiving holiday. When I was in school I was introduced to Thiebaud’s work and I was instantly hooked. He has definitely been an inspiration. What meant the most to me in this post, beside being mentioned along a great artist, [...]

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DCist.com Feature

Sunday, November 14th, 2010

The United Plates was recently featured on DCist.com. I am always appreciative of the exposure, but this one in particular turned out to be a huge deal. More info on that to come, but for now check out the post here: http://dcist.com/2010/11/dc_pop-tart.php Thanks D.C. fans!

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The United Plates 2: Back to the Buffet

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Welcome to the new United Plates! I jokingly call it “The United Plates 2: Back to the Buffet.” Go ahead and check it out! Here’s the idea: commercialize. At first, that may sound like an anti-artist notion. I felt that with some polish and my newfound style, this project could reach a broader audience. Each [...]

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Food Network Page

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

I feel I’m safe in posting a scan of the page I had in the December issue of Food Network magazine. I wanted to be sure it was well off the shelves before posting it. I was truly blessed to be given a full page, page 185 to be exact, and from that little page [...]

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Topeka Capital-Journal Article

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

This excellent article on my United Plates series appeared in the Topeka Capital Journal on December 12, 2009. It was written by Jan Biles. The original post can be viewed on the Capital Journal’s website. Artist creates ‘tasteful’ depictions of 50 states MAYETTA — A Mayetta-based artist is finding out Americans have a hunger for [...]

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2009 Sales Review

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

I’m currently well behind, trying to keep up with the business side of things, thus that is the reason no new president was posted this weekend. For that I apologize. To hold you over, however, I will be posting up some other new work until I can get back into the president series. I also [...]

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Sunday Celebrity

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

Friends in the greater Topeka area, I have a job for you all… tomorrow 12-13! First thing, pick up a Topeka Capital-Journal and find the Midway. There’s going to be an article on me in the news-rag! Not only was I stoked that they sought me out and came up for the interview, but they [...]

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News & Notes November

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Well well well… I’ve been a bad blogger haven’t I? I don’t lack a great reason! If you haven’t noticed, I have begun to upload second editions of many of the United Plates prints whilst still working on the US Presidents series. I redesigned the site, added Google Checkout (the best service ever!) to my [...]

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Without Further Ado… The United Plates

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Note: This article refers to the first version of the United Plates, a series of screen prints I created. That series sold out so I reworked the series. The United Plates is a series of posters I created based on the 50 states and how a different food is represented in each of their outlines. [...]

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