The pride
The things we are most proud of having accomplished, made, or survived
The Marriage of Ruiz & Knott (a live show), Ten Years Later (a live show), Summit Material (an audio documentary), Paperwork (a newsletter), The Company (a dream)
Various “Guestbook Data Projects”, eventually leading to a hand woven tapestry visualizing how many people were in our home each day of our first year of marriage.
Our wedding in 2014, and our anniversary in 2024.
A reader’s theater production I put on in college.
I'm very pleased with 5510, a bite sized spelling game. Did some cool drip paintings. Proud of a few songs.
Started a creative coding meetup group and organized two installments of our annual art show. Put together Denver's best screening of Gary Hustwit's Eno
I'm proud to make a living using my creativity.
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I co-founded The GrowHaus, an indoor farm and food justice nonprofit in 2009. I published the social permaculture book “Change Here Now” in 2017. In the last few years, I’ve facilitated a lot of high-stakes conversations and helped set strategy between national players in the sustainable food movement.
Stole the mass-produced art off my office breakroom wall on a Friday evening, painted all weekend, and then re-hung a piece made custom for the space. Collaborated with a local furniture designer to create 6 beautiful booths for a family-owned restaurant in the Avon (I painted the backs of the booths). Several years of regularly hosting art nites in my living room, re-creating one of the most dearly missed facets of art school: creative parallel play.
Founded a board game company that published five games and an apparel company that later sold.
designing a book called "Unflubbify Your Writing," designing the Red Rocks website, learning to code, and maintaining two years of sobriety (so far!).
Using paper marbling techniques in steel, having a great time failing to refine ore into steel.
Hosting and co-creating Creatives and Coffee at Art Club Coffee
Dumbphone Finder
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Coded a lot of mildly buggy websites in a world before AI.
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I ran an underground venue for 2 years in Portland, Oregon that helped put musicians on the map and into real roles that made it viable for them to be full-time artists.
Songs I've written and recorded, kumiko creative coding project
I’m super proud of a recent summer tank top I knitted
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Published an article that I am really proud of
Taught myself to code on the internet, and now get paid for it. Drew Emma Watson.
“The Breast Series Project”, a painting project with a friend that got into a gallery at UCLA. The project raised awareness about sexual assault.
Longlisted for the 2023 Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction. A pretty scary podcast fiction audiodrama about super-intelligent rats ("Rat King"). My six-year-long Dungeons and Dragons campaign. (Nearly) two master's degrees.
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My period accurate renaissance garb
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I’ve crafted and hosted 8 salons: gatherings curated to dive deeply into matters of the heart and mind. I was a part of a queer and women’s artist collective that met weekly for 10 years, rotating facilitators who would lead us through a creative activity. I went to business school on an island in the woods and had the best educational experience of my life.
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Ran a series of events & talks in Miami around the importance of tapping into your creativity. Hosted a virtual creative book club for the last 2 years with a group of thoughtful humans. Left the corporate advertising & design world after 10+ years and started a successful design studio with my close friend and business partner. Currently enjoying highlighting all the little details I love about my friends in the form of custom designed zines.
Ran a game developer training group that made a lot of (low quality but fun) indie games.
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Painted a portrait of my cat
I created a paleoclimatology unit that led students to discover the vast "hidden" history of their home state. Also pretty jazzed about my annual tradition of painting personalized classroom signs for fellow teachers.
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Planned and executed a fundraising bike packing trip. Dinners synced up with solar cycles. Created a comics archive.
I started an "Adulting" group for getting projects done, formed a Horror Film Club with friends, painted a mural on the wall of my condo, threw a Life Milestone event for myself (that was like a wedding or baby shower, but to celebrate a different life path), and am starting my next entrepreneurial adventure of Cuppa which is HUGE and EXCITING and SCARY and WONDERFUL and I'm so proud of it.
Built a one-of-a-kind super espresso machine
Started Creatives Club: a weekly meetup for creatives to work on projects alongside one another with chapters in four cities
My friend and I hosted a Prince themed adult prom. We made signature cocktails named after songs, found a secret space to host, speakeasy style, where you had to walk through a salon to get to the venue, and raised money for Black Lives Matter.