This painting of mine, "Fresh Peace", will be on display and up for auction this Friday at the brand new Over-the-Rhine Kroger building (located on Central Pkwy near Walnut & Court Sts). Of course, the OTR Kroger is not yet open, so you take the elevator up to the 9th floor, which is serving as a sort of makeship gallery and exhibit space for this show.

The auction benefits Cincinnati's largest urban soup kitchen: Our Daily Bread Soup Kitchen & Social Center. This gallery show, "One in Eight", attempts to combat the global/local epidemic of hunger (while processing that 40% of American food goes uneaten). Show is from 5:30-10 PM! Thank you for organizing this event, AGAR Agency.

Myself and my pal/partner Jon Flannery (Cryptogram Ink) were recently guests on "Art Palace", the podcast of the Cincinnati Art Museum. Thank to so much to Russell Ihrig and the CAM for having us to discuss our special project ... it was an absolute blast.

Direct link to podcast here // it is also available via Spotify, Apple/iTunes, Stitcher and most other podcast subscription services.

We discuss the story of our current project, creating a tribute paper based on the visual artwork of the "Independent Eye", a recently unearthed underground, free press local newspaper (published 1968-1975).

This is part of a broader project involving the "Eye" that I have been heading in conjunction with the Public Library of Cincinnati dating back to last November. This is my first mention of it here on my website, but if you are a personal friend on social media networks (or follow me on Instagram), you may have seen my ongoing updates on this project. It has been an incredibly exciting and rewarding project, and one that has been very atypical for me, in that it has involved conducting long phone conversations, organizing and attending several meetings, submitting formal funding proposals, and things like that. Ultimately, though, we are now just a few short months away from the exhibition/panel discussion taking place at the library in the fall, the publishing of the library's digital archive, and the creation of the tribute paper. Many, many more details to come, but if you are interested, just about everything is explained in the podcast.

Now available in the shop: Postcards (in 4 seasons).

A set of eight (8) matte postcards representing the imagery of the four seasons. Packaged in kraft paper wrap with hand inked seasonal imagery (while supplies last)!

... upcoming US tour in support of brand new album "Pang!"

Here is the collaborative film that we made last month at a live Floating Shape Workshop event. We set up at the annual Good People Festival in Covington, and any children or families who stopped by our area were welcome to contribute to the film. Using three simple small drawings, everyone created a cycle of their own eye blinking. We then filmed them sequentially in the span of about four hours. I later added the little intro. Ilove how this one came out. Thanks again to the GPF and the Baker Hunt Art & Cultural Center for hosting us. Also thank you to my wife Jaclyn for hand-stitching the beautiful new FSW felt banner (picture below).

Thank you to the seven young animators who spent 15 hours writing, storyboarding, and animating at last week's week-long summer animation workshop. This was definitely one of the greatest Floating Shape Workshop events to date. With the help of my pal Tara Heilman, a few animators even sewed their names (for their film's ending credits) into animation paper. Three small groups each created a unique collaborative film (which will shortly be uploaded to FSW's YT channel).

A few of my favorite shots ...

Excited to have just gotten word that next week's week-long animation workshop at Robot Inside is full! It should be another great week making a collaborative film.