4 panel comic panning across towards a cat on a lawn with fur flying off of her and someone singing lyrics from The Carpenters \

Singing to my cat

Created during Sarah Leavitt’s keynote in which we were invited to reflect on various prompts to give us ideas for our 4-panel comics. The prompt I reflected on…

image with four hand drawn cartoon horses, labelled \

Lumpy Horse Stampede

Small stampede of lumpy horses inspired by Sarah Leavitt’s TRU talk on May 5, 2020

A line drawing of a horse

My Lumpy Horse

ink and pen on plain white paper

My first 4 pane Comic memoir

From the keynote by Sarah Leavitt in OITO May 5, 2022

horse in inked outline

Lumpy Horse

A Lumpy Horse for the Sarah Leavitt OITO keynote

a dialog as poetry

Jamboard process

For our jamboard I wrote an imaginary conversation with a reluctant writer.  This had a hard time becoming a collaboration, because I mainly think alone. But together we…

Creative Disruption – Spoken Word and Music

This music and image was used as a visual/musical canvas upon which to add spoken words.  These words were vocalizations of participants’  hopes and fears in decolonizing their…

My Comic Memoir

I was ten years old and wanted to fly like a bird.  I had a brilliant idea of how to do it with an inflatable lifeboat and some…

Post-it notes on a Jamboard screen with hopes and fears about decolonizing academia

Collaborative Spoken Word Poetry

We shared our hopes and fears about decolonizing our our work, our practice, our minds. What resulted was a bit chaotic, but a powerful spoken word poem by…

My Lumpy Horse from Sarah Leavitt’s Session

My lumpy horse from Sarah Leavitt’s session.  It has been my companion throughout Creativity in the Open.  Maybe it will join me for a drive later?

Music and Drawing: Experience the Fusion

This is how Naomi’s music moved my marker today :). Thank you for a deeply relaxing and inspirational moment in time, Naomi!

Roughly drawn horse comic

Lumpy horse from Sarah Leavitt’s session

Sarah Leavitt showed us a few amazing “lumpy horses” and then gave us a short time to draw our own. A lovely way to start the series of…