Beautiful Trouble

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Community projects and collaborative troublemaking. Name from the book Beautiful Trouble, which I turn to often.

Coup des Déesses

This collaborative mural was organized by an amazing collective of BIPOC youth. It’s on the side of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria for one year. The design was a collaboration with the youth, mentor “aunties”, Sarah Jim, and me. […]

President Hall: Time to Divest

Photos by the extraordinary Colin Smith! Divest UVic, my o.g. organizing home, asked me to come back to design and paint this mural. We used it to welcome UVic’s new president Dr. Kevin Hall, and let him know that […]

Wasteland

In November 2019, Kay Gallivan and Kate Brooks-Heinimann curated Wasteland Climate Anxiety Haunted House in an old house slated for demolition. A week before the house was going to open, Hannah, Caitlin, and I were sitting around at a […]

11 Years to Change Everything

Photos by the incredible Mike Graeme (photo 1 and 2) and Colton Hash (3). We painted this street mural for the September 27 Global Climate Strike. An ad-hoc mural team started the design process at a Greenpeace training. I designed […]

Break Free

Claris Figueira, Anna Gerrard, and I painted a mural on Wildfire Bakery to advertise the Break Free march and flotilla at the Westridge tanker terminal in 2016. Then I was recruited to design and facilitate a street mural on a […]

The People’s Spark

In 2015 two exchange students from Europe, Marilou and Anna, assembled a scrappy group of UVic students to plan a rally on the eve of COP 21 in Paris. We spent weeks cutting out hundreds of cardboard flames and invited […]

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