for an upcoming solo show.
I love seeing other artist’s progress shots, so thought I might share one of my own!
Category Archives: meat sections
drywell + food banks. totally obvious partnership
dave eggers’s brilliant drawing, via serial optimistAs most folks know, I am an attorney. (I knooooow, right?). While much has been made in the press* of the fact that I gave up a “government attorney” position to be an artist, I haven’t really discussed what that job was.
I was an Asylum Officer, which meant I spent my days interviewing foreign nationals who were applying for asylum here in the United States. It was, as you might imagine, an intense job. It required me to listen to unbelievably atrocious stories of persecution and violence, but on the up side, I was able to help hundreds of people escape their countries and possibly death.
From the get go, my decision to go to law school was motivated by a desire to help others and enter into a public service career. My decision to quit my job (which was unsustainable for oh so many reasons) and then become an artist has been amazing and fulfilling in many ways, but I have felt that some sort of public interest activities have been lacking in my life.
Given that, I am SO excited and proud to announce that starting this year, I’ll be donating 10% of the sale price from each of my “Meat My City” map posters to a local food bank in the corresponding city!!!!
One of the major goals for Drywell Art this year is to expand the line of neighborhood posters, so I’m hoping that lots of money gets donated, nationwide. I’ll donate on a quarterly basis, and share the donations here on the blog.
Right now I have three city maps and I’m proud to announce the corresponding food banks for each one:
San Francisco: All donations will go to the San Francisco Food Bank, where every $1 donated allows them to distribute $6 worth of food! So, buying a SF is for Carnivores posters means that $2.50 of your purchase price will transform into $15 of food for the needy in SF. nice, right?
Brooklyn: All donations will go to St. John’s Bread and Life, located in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. Their innovative digital food pantry was recently featured in the NY Times.
Seattle: For now, all donations will go to Northwest Harvest, which is an umbrella organization for all of Washington food donation programs. Over 93% of their budget goes to food distribution, and for 67 cents, they can feed a family of three a nutritious meal. (If any Seattlites have a rec for a local Seattle food bank in need of some monies, let me know!)
Meat eaters for the greater good!!!
* By press I of course mostly mean Thrillist and the SF Chronicle. I can use the term “press” right? I don’t sound like an a-hole?
more indie marting!
Wow. It’s apparently been a month since I’ve posted. Which means I’ve been busy, which is good, but I’m going to make an effort to post here a bit more regularly.
Part of the business has been prepping for my second Indie-Mart, this Sunday July 18th in San Francisco. I’m adding a fair number of new prints, mostly from my daily art project MEAT SECTIONS. The project has been getting a lot of good attention lately, including a big feature over at Serious Eats, one of my favorite food blogs.
So I’ve been busy posting there every day, and I feel like little Blocky might be feeling neglected. But he always feels kind of bad….
Any who, if you are in the San Francisco area, come by and say hello at Indie Mart! I’ll be right by the entrance, at 17th and Wisconsin. It’s a great event, with really tasty food (including tater tots!) and some amazing vendors.
IndieMart Street Fair
Sunday July 18th
Thee Parkside : Wisconsin, between 16th and 17th
San Francisco
12pm to 6pm
$3
San Francisco is for Carnivores — available!!!
Just a quick note to let you know that my “San Francisco is for Carnivores” poster is now available in my esty shop for $25.
I’m super proud of this design. I drew a map of all the San Francisco neighborhoods and fit that within the shape of a pig, making it into a butchery diagram (complete with labels for ham, hock, and jowl)!
It was super well received at Indie Mart and I’m really happy that it’s now up in the shop! I’ll be posting the grey version later today.
The supplies are limited for now, because I’m printing them at home with my super serious archival pigment ink Epson R2400 printer. The ink requires a 24 hour drying time, and for now I don’t have the physical space to make tons of them. I’m in the process of finding a local printer (offset or screen printer) to make them in slightly larger quantities.
**** UPDATE – as of December 2010, posters are offset print by Pinball, using soy inks on 100% recycled paper. They are AMAZING. The only difference in the new prints is that I got rid of the white border. And because they are offset print, some slight imperfections occur .. like a teeny tiny dot here and there, which is par for the course with offset printing, and make the posters look even more awesome.****
yeah for posting!
Indie Mart wrap-up
hello! I feel like I’ve been away for awhile, with all the IndieMart prep (and subsequent recovery!) This was my first craft show ever as a vendor, and it was ridiculously fun and a huge success.
Thanks to all my friends who came out to support me, the friends that they brought along, and all the attendees at the Indie Mart. A special thanks to Kelly and Monica, the organizers behind IndieMart, who recruited me and made the Indie Mart so awesome! The event went by so fast, mostly I think because our booth was busy almost the whole time.
I was excited to do an event like this but didn’t anticipate how fun it would be to actually interact with folks and see their reactions to my art. There was a lot of laughing and expressions of meat love. It was pretty gratifying, especially since I work in a bubble, and mostly just make things that get me or Steve to laugh. It was nice that other folks found me funny too.
It was also interesting to see which were the big sellers (“really fucking good pig“, “rainbow vomit“, and my brand spankin’ new “SF is for Carnivores” poster) and which ones surprisingly weren’t (the hot dog and artichoke heart, two of my favorites!)
And…. good news everyone! I’ll be participating in next month’s Indie Mart too – Sunday July 18th, same location!
next post …. lessons learned at my first craft show.
super pig!
print available!
I really liked today’s MEAT SECTIONS illustration, so thought I would post it over here too. You can check out MEAT SECTIONS to see the whole post. You know, if you want to.
please excuse the inattention….
…but there has been a lot of butchery going on.
I’ve been somewhat quiet over here, mostly because of some great things happening with my daily drawing blog, MEAT SECTIONS.
I received a commission to do several more painting for an awesome company (to be revealed as the painting come out. I’m excited!), a request to get one of my drawings as a tattoo(!!) and some requests for prints. So it has been actually pretty busy, which is odd, but good.
I have some cool things to post over here in the next few weeks though, including a step-by-step tutorial on making a Mega Daruma and my post on what inspires me as part of SFgirlbybay‘s clever Blog It Forward mashup.
In the meantime, I invite you to take a gander at my 55 days* of MEAT SECTIONS here or at my flickr site.
*technically there are only 53. I skipped drawing on a beautiful sunny weekend. I’m ok with that.
