BLACK ELK

Image of the Lakota holy man Black Elk to promote a portrait workshop (Symbolic Storytelling)

Client: PNCA Illustration

OSPREY 1

18x30'“ screen print drawn back into with ink, colored pencil and pastel.

Private commission.

WES 100

Poster commemorating the centennial of Jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery.

ILLUSTRATION WEST 62

Call for Entries Poster for the Illustration West 62 Exhibition

Client: Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles / Art Director: Jon Messer

HARLEM ROOTS + RHYTHM URBAN DANCE FESTIVAL 2022

Client: Harlem Swing Dance Society

CHERITH

Private Commission. Mixed Media + Digital / 20x30”

MINGUS 100

Poster designs commemorating the centennial of Jazz bassist, composer and innovator Charles Mingus.

HARISH RAGHAVAN

Album cover art for IN TENSE, the second record by Jazz composer and bassist Harish Raghavan.

Client: Whilwind Recordings

JACKIE ROBINSON DAY 2022

An image to promote Jackie Robinson Day 2022, commemorating the day Jackie Robinson made his major league debut, breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier and becoming its first Black player.

LOS OLVIDADOS 2

Secondary poster design for Los Olvidados, or "The Forgotten Ones," an audio documentary on the history of Afro-Latin Jazz.

Client: 33third.org.

MLK DAY 2022

A portrait of Martin Luther King promoting events celebrating MLK Day.

LOS OLVIDADOS

Poster design for Los Olvidados, or "The Forgotten Ones," an audio documentary on the history of Afro-Latin Jazz.

Client: 33third.org.

WOODSTOCK 50

A poster of Alvin Lee, the front man and lead guitarist for the British rock band Ten Years After, for the exhibition Woodstock 50: A Piece Of My Heart (50th anniversary of Woodstock)

Client: The Bienal Internacional del Cartel en México

The following images are conceptual design sketches created during the development of the mural.

FLORA + FAUNA MURAL

A 26 ft. x 12 ft. mural for the courtyard entrance to the 220 Building in the Old Town neighborhood of Portland, Oregon.

Client: Specht Development, Think Joule / Art Director: Jennifer Bryan

220 BUILDING PDX

A series of images installed in the lobby of the 220 Building in the Old Town neighborhood of Portland, Oregon.

Client: Specht Development, Think Joule / Art Director: Jennifer Bryan

HARP HOUSE

Promotional image for the proposal of a new Blues club in the San Francisco Bay Area.

PSALM 23

An image of a homeless street musician reimagining Psalm 23 from the Hebrew Bible.

PAUL ROBESON

Illustration of Paul Robeson for the Athlete + Activist Project, illustrating 24 US athletes from the past 75 years who took activist stances or represented socially/politically important issues through their sports achievements.

COLTRANE LIVES

Poster celebrating the previously unheard album "Blue World" recorded by John Coltrane in 1964, released by Impulse! Records in September 2019.

40 MILLION SERIES

An estimated 40 million people world wide are trapped in forced labor or human trafficking. In the US 7.5 million people are under correctional control with over 2 million in prison. Immigrant Detention Centers hold as many as 400,000 immigrants each year.

Each image in this series is a reflection on the complex and fragile nature of freedom - a call for change and a visual prayer of hope for those who are enslaved, degraded, and exiled.

HARLEM ROOTS + RHYTHM

Poster for the Harlem Roots + Rhythm Urban Dance Festival 2019.

Client: Harlem Swing Dance Society

ESPERANCA

An image of a street musician in Sao Paulo, Brazil for an organization that provides residential care and vocational training for children and teens living on the streets, equipping them to transition into a safe and sustainable way of life.

Client: Hope Unlimited (Brazil)

DANCE 21

Promotional mailer/poster for Martin French Studio.

MALCOLM X

Portrait of the great human rights leader and activist.

EUROLEAGUE 2021

Luca Vildoza of the Spanish basketball team Kirolbet Baskonia for the official visual guide of the EuroLeague Finals.

Client: The EuroLeague Art Director: Simone Colongo

BIRD 100

A poster celebrating the centennial of Jazz saxophonist and innovator Charlie Parker.

HARLEM ROOTS + RHYTHM

Poster for the Harlem Roots + Rhythm Urban Dance Festival 2018.

Client: Harlem Swing Dance Society

JUNETEENTH 2020

Poster celebrating and honoring the fight for freedom.

HUACA

Private Commission

WILMA RUDOLPH

Portrait of Wilma Rudolph for the Athlete + Activist project illustrating 20 US athletes from the past 75 years who took activist stances or represented socially/politically important issues through their sports achievements.

BILLIE JEAN KING

Illustration of Billie Jean King for the Athlete + Activist Project, illustrating 24 US athletes from the past 75 years who took activist stances or represented socially/politically important issues through their sports achievements.

PORTLAND CREATE 2020

A proposed mural design on the theme of the creative spirit of Portland, Oregon.

Client: Think Joule / thinkjoule.com

HARLEM ROOTS + RHYTHM

Poster for the Harlem Roots + Rhythm Urban Dance Festival 2018.

Client: Harlem Swing Dance Society

ARTHUR ASHE

Illustration of tennis legend Arthur Ashe for the Athlete + Activist Project, illustrating 24 US athletes from the past 75 years who took activist stances or represented socially/politically important issues through their sports achievements.

MARK CARDS

A set of cards used to promote Arts+Faith+Culture initiatives

Client: Imago Dei

TRAIL BLAZERS 50

A poster celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Portland Trail Blazers.

Art Director: Rob Macy / Client: First Tech Federal, Portland Trail Blazers

40 MILLION SERIES

An estimated 40 million people world wide are trapped in forced labor or human trafficking. In the US 7.5 million people are under correctional control with over 2 million in prison. Immigrant Detention Centers hold as many as 400,000 immigrants each year.

Each image in this series is a reflection on the complex and fragile nature of freedom - a call for change and a visual prayer of hope for those who are enslaved, degraded, and exiled.

MEGAN RAPINOE

Illustration of Soccer star Megan Rapinoe for the Athlete + Activist Project, illustrating 24 US athletes from the past 75 years who took activist stances or represented socially/politically important issues through their sports achievements.

LEBRON JAMES

Portrait of NBA star LeBron James for the Athlete + Activist project illustrating 24 US athletes from the past 75 years who took activist stances or represented socially/politically important issues through their sports achievements.

JIM THORPE

Portrait of Jim Thorpe for the Athlete + Activist project illustrating 24 US athletes from the past 75 years who took activist stances or represented socially/politically important issues through their sports achievements.

BILQIS ABDUL-QAADIR

Portrait of Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir for the Athlete + Activist project illustrating 24 US athletes from the past 75 years who took activist stances or represented socially/politically important issues through their sports achievements.

SONNY ROLLINS

Poster of Jazz legend Sonny Rollins to promote the Sonny Rollins Bridge Project

MASKED MARVEL

In June of 1929, Blues musician Charlie Patton recorded his first songs for the Paramount record company. 3 months later the recordings were released through an advertising campaign asking listeners to guess the identity of the singer they had dubbed The Masked Marvel. The record went on to reportedly sell more than 5000 copies. Charlie Patton is generally regarded as the defining voice of the Delta Blues, his body of work documenting the intensely troubled times in which he lived as both artist and mystic.

BOBA FETT

Client: Wizards of the Coast / Art Director: Shauna Narciso

MONK 100

A poster to commemorate the centennial of Jazz pianist and innovator Thelonious Monk.

HOLY BLUES

Poster celebrating the legendary Blues artist and street evangelist Blind Willie Johnson.

JAZZ GUITAR

Client: The Atlantic Monthly / Art Director: Amy Swan

MUHAMMAD ALI

Portrait of boxing champion Muhammad Ali for the Athlete + Activist project illustrating 20 US athletes from the past 75 years who took activist stances or represented socially/politically important issues through their sports achievements.

DIVER

Client: Sports Illustrated

BLACK PANTHER

The Black Panther circa 1975 to promote the Marvel Entertainment film.

PROPHET I

Client: Black History Month 2005 / Art Director: Kim DeCarlo

PROPHET II

FIGHTER

Cover art for “Fighter” by Walter Dean Myers.

Client: Scholastic

THE FACE OF THE DEEP

Illustrations for The Face of the Deep: Exploring the Mysterious Person of the Holy Spirit by Paul J. Pastor

Client: David C. Cook Publishers

HARLEM SWING

A set of six posters to promote the work of The Harlem Swing Dance Society in NYC.

The Harlem Swing Dance Society is a non-profit organization promoting, propagating, preserving, and protecting Swing Dance and Lindy Hop culture in its Harlem home - back to its Harlem roots. In addition, this group seeks to restore Harlem youth to their cultural identity by connecting them with one of the most dynamic and important art movements in history, the Harlem Renaissance.

Client: Harlem Swing Dance Society

40 MILLION SERIES

An estimated 40 million people world wide are trapped in forced labor or human trafficking. In the US 7.5 million people are under correctional control with over 2 million in prison. Immigrant Detention Centers hold as many as 400,000 immigrants each year.

Each image in this series is a reflection on the complex and fragile nature of freedom - a call for change and a visual prayer of hope for those who are enslaved, degraded, and exiled.

BIRDS

A series used as promotional mailers for Martin French Studio.

Heron

Tern

Shrike

Nighthawk

Swallow

Pelican

Yellow-headed Blackbird

RAIN INTERNATIONAL

Illustration for the 2016 RainMaker Awards.

Each year Rain International selects individuals who are achieving extraordinary things in the fields of health & nutrition.

Client: Rain International / Art Director: Dylan Burt

CALIN MATEI / STREET CONCERT 1

Gig poster for Romani multi-instramentalist Calin Matei.

Client: Calin Matei

EXILE POSTER PROJECT 2013

Poster for the 2013 Exile Poster Project Exhibition based on the theme of Incarceration.

WHERE THE SPIRIT

A wordless graphic novel inspired by the origins and lives of Martin’s two children, while serving as an homage to orphaned street children around the world. In this symbolic visual narrative, a scarecrow finds itself outcast in a foreign environment, useless and unneeded. When a spirit-wind invades the scene, it invites the Scarecrow to come explore a new reality.

Where the Spirit tells a universal story: Everywhere, always, there are children who are exiled and abandoned, thrown away, dropped in the cracks, lost, forgotten. Today, like the scarecrow, as many as 150 million children are living on the streets. Like the Scarecrow, they remain largely unseen and ignored.

The prayer infused in Where the Spirit is that more and more of us would be moved by a spirit of love and seek out these children, lift them, pry them, love them out of despair, and show them that where the spirit of love is, there is freedom and goodness and life.

ZAPORA

Private Commission

WRESTLING WITH GOD

A series of images based on the narrative of Jacob from the Hebrew Bible. The first image serves as a symbolic representation of Jacob's encounter with the angel of god. The icons create a graphic timeline of events in Jacob's life.

Client: Imago Dei / Art Director: Paul Ramey

ASH WEDNESDAY 2018

A series of icons used during the Ash Wednesday services in 2018.

Client: Imago Dei / Art Director: Paul Ramey

JVC JAZZ FESTIVAL POSTERS

Client: JVC Jazz Festival

ASH WEDNESDAY 2017

A series of icons used during Ash Wednesday services.

Client: Imago Dei / Art Director: Paul Ramey

OUTCAST

Luke 7:36-50

Client: International Bible Society / Art Director: Jennifer Phillips

CALIN MATEI / STREET CONCERT 2

Gig poster for Romani multi-instramentalist Calin Matei.

Client: Calin Matei

SURF

Advertising illustration.

Client: Pepsi

INSCAPE

Cover art for Cultural Encounters: A Journal for the Theology of Culture.

Client: The Institute for the Theology of Culture / Art Director: Steve Mitchell

STOMPIN' AT THE SAVOY

Cover art for the biography of the great Norma Miller - "The Queen of Swing", and one of the true pioneers of Swing Dance.

Edited by Alan Govenar, and based on interviews with Norma, the biography chronicles her rise to fame as one of the original Lindy Hop dancers in the Savoy Theater in NYC, evoking memories of the early years of the Jazz Age in America and the Harlem Renaissance.

This illustration developed from listening to Norma tell the story of how as a young girl she danced on the street for spare change in front of the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem.

Client: Candlewick Press / Art Director: Sheri Fatla

GOOD FRIDAY

A freedom icon for all who journey through the darkness, danger, and violence of our complex world.

STORY OF GOD

Poster art promoting a series of 5 sermons titled the Story of God. The 5 icons are symbolic representations of the sermon topics - Creation, Covenant, Christ, New Creation and Community.

Client: Imago Dei

ROAR!

Chapter Illustrations for Roar! A Family Guide to the Chronicles of Narnia by Heather and David Kopp.

Images in order:

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

The Magician's Nephew

The Horse and His Boy

Prince Caspian

The Silver Chair

The Last Battle

Client: Multnomah Publishers / Art Director: David Carlson

JUMP 33

Poster for a Blues Club

MARATHON

Illustrations for an article on the historical roots of the marathon, tracing back to ancient cultures such as the Tarahumara of Mexico and the Incas of Peru.

Client: Nexos Magazine

JAZZ DIVAS

Sophisticated Ladies: The Great Women of Jazz, written by Jazz historian Leslie Gourse, contains biographies of some of the great female Jazz vocalist's from the past 100 years. It received a Carter G. Woodson Book Award for the most distinguished books appropriate for young readers that depict ethnicity in the United States. This award is intended to “encourage the writing, publishing, and dissemination of outstanding social studies books for young readers that treat topics related to ethnic minorities and race relations sensitively and accurately.”

The portraits included here, in order, are: Bessie Smith, Dinah Washington, Ethel Waters, Mabel Mercer, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Anita O’Day, Betty Carter, Cassandra Wilson, Ella Fitzgerald and Rosemary Clooney.

Client: Dutton Children's Books / Art Director: Sarah Reynolds

ACROBAT

Promotional mailer/poster for Martin French Studio.

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS

Client: The Grammy Awards / Art Director: Rikki Polous

NIKE TRAINING

Client: Nike / Art Director: Ken Black

SALT LAKE CITY WINTER OLYMPICS

Client: United States Olympic Committee / Bank of America / Art Director: Michele Ronsen

HEAD DEAD WEST

Head Dead West is a suite of symbols meant to simultaneously honor and haunt the roots of American culture as we know it. HDW parodies our longstanding Apocalyptic tradition while also shamelessly tapping it. It evokes our love of the wild while decrying our destruction of the environment. Most of all, the HDW symbols serve as modern totems to our undying spiritual instincts, and to the unavoidable doom set before us all to choose the images and stories through which we will come to know each other and our world.

HOLY WILD

My piece for the Earth: Fragile Planet Exhibit at the Society of Illustrators in NYC. 100 illustrators addressing the current environmental issues that we face in contemporary society.

Artist Statement: The Raven has a mythic reputation in ancient and modern culture. I’m most fascinated by it’s connection to wilderness and solitude. This image seeks to catch the energy, beauty, and spiritual qualities of the wild spaces, and wild creatures we share our planet with. The Raven then becomes a symbolic reminder to not only protect and care for the natural world, but also a reminder to become more connected to it in our day-to-day lives.

AMERICA

This illustration and typography was commissioned by the San Antonio based agency Market Vision. With offices in San Francisco, NYC, and Mexico City, Market Vision services a culturally diverse clientele. This project was used as a promotional poster/mailer for the agency based on the theme of multiculturalism and the changing face of America.

Client: Market Vision / Art Director: Robert Sosa

ROLLER GIRL

An illustration for an article on the growing popularity of Roller Derby in the US.

Client: Bostonia Magazine / Boston University

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER

Client: Jazz at Lincoln Center / Art Director: Brad Epstein

BEN HOGAN

Image of golf legend Ben Hogan for the Hershey Country Club.

Client: The Hershey Company / Art Director: Bill Dussinger

MARCH MADNESS

Illustration promoting the NCAA Mens Basketball Regional Tournament in St. Louis.

Client: Edward Jones, NCAA / Art Director: Mark Stagner

PORTLAND FESTIVAL BALLET

Poster for the 2011 season.

EXILE POSTER PROJECT 2011

My poster for the 2011 Exile Poster Project which focused on raising awareness against the sexual exploitation of children.

Sexual exploitation breaks the bodies of children in the here and now. And that is terrible enough. But it also rips apart their futures. Their ability to connect with people emotionally is often fractured. Their ability to connect with a loved one during adulthood in healthy sexual relationship is often numbed. We all need eyes to see that the violence that happens to our children today is also happening to them -- and to us -- tomorrow.