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 Exhibits & speaking 

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2024

Washington University, John M. Olin Library
Put together a little exhibit of The Grocery List Collection for the Collect O’Rama Case at Wash U.

2022

TEDxVienna
Got invited to speak at TEDxVienna on “How to Find Attention, Mindfulness, and Creativity in the Ordinary”. October 8, 2022, Vienna, Austria

Famous Fictional 15: Second Bananas
TK (themed invitational exhibit organized by Dan Zettwoch and Ron Weaver), St. Louis, Missouri, USA

I AM HERE: Home Movies and Everyday Masterpieces
Was asked by the Art Gallery of Ontario to share from my grocery list collection. The exhibit was postponed in 2021 due to the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. April 11–August 17, 2022, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2020

Famous Fictional 14: Famous Digital
TK (themed invitational pandemic online-only exhibit organized by Ron Weaver), St. Louis, Missouri, USA

2019

Famous Fictional the 13th: Horror!
TK (themed invitational exhibit organized by Ron Weaver) at Mad Art Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

AIGA Design Show 24
Some work I did at Tremendousness was selected for this annual awards show. We don’t always enter, but when we do…, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

“Design for a Cause”
Benefit art auction for Forward Through Ferguson, organized by AIGA STL, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

2018

“Arfs & Crafts”
Benefit art auction for local dog shelters, organized by AIGA STL, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

“Attention Is Hard”
Presentation for “The Art of Push Notifications and Newsletters” organized by the Online News Association at TechArtista, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

2017

Famous Fictional: Goes to 11
TK (themed invitational exhibit organized by Ron Weaver) at Mad Art Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

2016

Famous Fictional 10: Versus!
TK (themed invitational exhibit organized by Ron Weaver) at Mad Art Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

2015

The Building: Soulard Fine Arts 25th Anniversary Exhibit
TK, The Gallery at Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis, Missouri USA

Famous Fictional 9: Friends & Foes
TK (themed invitational exhibit organized by Ron Weaver) at Mad Art Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Rock and Roll Craft Show #12
TK, The Luminary, St. Louis, Missouri USA

2014

Famous Fictional 8: From the Womb to the Tomb
TK (themed invitational exhibit organized by Ron Weaver & Dan Zettwoch) (MORE)

  • What: copper and oil paint on wood
  • Why: group invitational exhibit
  • Where: Mad Art Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

The DOT Show
TK (benefit art auction by STL AIGA for Design Week) (MORE)

  • What: found objects, assemblage
  • Why: invitational exhibit and auction to benefit design scholarships—part of STL Design Week
  • Where: Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis, Missouri USA

2013

Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity
“The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is the world’s biggest celebration of creativity in communications. As the most prestigious international creative communications awards, more than 34,000 entries from all over the world are showcased and judged at the Festival, held during the third week of June in Cannes, France, every year. Winners receive the highly-coveted Lion trophy, presented at four award ceremonies throughout the week.” (MORE)

Famous Fictional 7: On the Famous Fictional Payroll
“They are trying to sell you pizza, beer, breakfast cereal, and cheap electricity. They are your avatars and enemies when moving moving across tabletop worlds. They have an agenda, and often googly eyes. You root for them or against them. They are lovable, but live on the bottom line. They are mascots. Mad Art Gallery is proud to present the sixth installment of the annual Famous Fictional art show, which opens on the evening of Friday, November 1, 2013. Over 30 artists will once again be making pieces based in the realms of popular culture. This time the walls will be crawing with characters pulled from advertising, boardgames, and sports. On The FAMOUS FICTIONAL Payroll assembles a diverse group of St. Louis-based artists from the fields of illustration, comics, craft art, photography, printmaking, woodworking, graphic design and tattoo art. Artists include Matt Reedy, Amanda Mueller, Andrea Taylor, Vidhya Nagarajan , Jessica Robtoy, Jeff Robtoy, Erika Wardlaw, Darrick Hays, David Vordtriede, Katie O’Malley, Thomas Plunk, Sharlene Kindt, Ryan Doggendorf, Jon Baker, Scott Matthews, Chris Roettger, Bill Keaggy, Drew Crowley, Dan Madrigal, Katie Marshall, Brian Cummings, Ron Weaver, Anchovy and more!” The show is once again being curated by cartoonish, sweet-talking pitchman Dan Zettwoch.” (MORE)

  • What: watercolor & ink on book pages and wood
  • Why: group invitational exhibit
  • Where: Mad Art Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

AIGA “Discovered”
“An Art Party with a Cause as part of this year’s STL Design Week. With the theme of children’s literacy in mind, AIGA Saint Louis’ Design-for-a-Cause event partners with the newly renovated downtown St. Louis Public Library to present 40 selected artists and designers who will exhibit and auction their donated artwork reinterpreting and repurposing used books, to benefit the St. Louis Public Library Foundation.” (MORE & MORE)

  • What: assemblage
  • Why: juried exhibit and auction to benefit the St. Louis Public Library Foundation—part of STL Design Week
  • Where: St. Louis Central Library, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

AIGA 18 Show
American Institute for Graphics Arts awards show. (MORE)

  • What: animated short film: “The 12 Days of Keefmas“
  • Why: design industry awards show
  • Where: COCA, The Center of Creative Arts, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

2012

Famous Fictional 6: People/Places/Things | “Bedrock is empty, all prehistoric humans extinct. Jack Torrance’s axe sits alone at an abandoned Overlook Hotel. The Borrowers have no Big People stomping above the floorboards. Nakatomi Plaza is absent of everyone—terrorists, hostages, limousine drivers—everyone. Scrooge McDuck’s piles of gold are placid, with no divers in sight. All fictional worlds have been deserted! Mad Art Gallery is proud to present the sixth installment of the annual Famous Fictional art show opening on Friday, November 2, 2012. Over 30 artists will once again be making pieces based in the realms of popular culture: movies, novels, television, comics, mythology, children’s literature, poetry and beyond. For the first time, portraits of people are strictly forbidden! Instead we’ll get up close and personal with famous fictional landscapes, vehicles, pets, still lifes, weapons, furniture, machinery, totems, ideas and anything else without a human pulse. Famous Fictional: Places & Things assembles a diverse group of St. Louis-based artists from the fields of illustration, comics, craft art, photography, printmaking, woodworking, graphic design and tattoo art. Famous Fictional is once again being curated and depopulated by Dan Zettwoch.” (MORE)

  • What: digital manipulation, light, audio
  • Why: group invitational exhibit
  • Where: Mad Art Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

NICAR 2012: Best Visualization Practices | TK (at St. Louis Union Station, St. Louis, Missouri, USA)

The Facebook Class: Social Networking and the Self | TK (at SIUE, Edwardsville, Illinois, USA)

DART STL | TK (at HK Photography, St. Louis, Missouri, USA)

StudioSTL Writer’s Workshop | TK (at StudioSTL, St. Louis, Missouri, USA)

Rock & Roll Craft Show #9 | TK (at 3rd Degree Glass Factory, St. Louis, Missouri, USA)

2011

Sidekicks and Soulmates | “Friends. Pals. Buddies. Homies. Sidekicks. We’ve got a lot of names for the people that star in our everyday lives, from the special few who know us better than we know ourselves, to the co-workers who help us sludge through our weekly grind, to the strangers we only virtually know online. This show also poses the question of how well we really know those 500 plus friends we have on Facebook, while celebrating those we hold dear through a collaborative showcase of artistic expression.” (MORE)

  • What: photography
  • Why: group invitational exhibit
  • Where: Mad Art Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Foodstock Art Party | “A charity auction from AIGA St. Louis featuring artists’ work from across the country and around St. Louis. Prints, paintings, mixed media, cartoons, photography & collage. Proceeds will go to Operation Food Search” (MORE)

SND STL / The Society for News Design Annual Conference: From Milk Eggs Vodka to stealing bricks: learn about bootstrapping your passion and entrepreneurship for creative media (at the St. Louis Convention Center)

DART STL | TK (at HK Photography, St. Louis, Missouri, USA)

Pecha Kucha #5: “Because” | TK (at Bridge, St. Louis, Missouri, USA)

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2010

Lovecrush Art Party | “C’mon out and join AIGA St Louis for a one-of-a-kind Charity Art Auction on Friday March 12. Proceeds will go to the American Heart Association. Sponsored by Computer Solutions. We’ll be auctioning illustration and design works from nationally known artists in St Louis and around the U.S.  All of the show’s artwork will be themed around “LOVE” and however artists interpret that, good, bad or other, is up to them!” (MORE)

Jimmy Kimmel Live | More TK, but this one time I was on the Jimmy Kimmel Show (at the El Capitan Theatre, Hollywood, California, USA) (MORE)

2009

Found/As/Art/As/Found | Solo show {photography, found objects} at the John D. MacArthur Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, Florida, USA

Rock & Roll Craft Show #6 | TK (at 3rd Degree Glass Factory, St. Louis, Missouri, USA)

2008

He Said, She Said | Solo exhibition/event {found objects} at He Said, She Said, Chicago, Illinois, USA

imPOSTERS | Group show of “Real Posters for Fake Bands” {graphic design} at Gallery Visio, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Other Peoples’ Photos | TK (at the Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, USA)

2007

Say Cheese! Kids & Photography | TK (at the Center for Creative Arts, St. Louis, Missouri, USA)

Exploring Digital Photography | TK (at the Center for Creative Arts, St. Louis, Missouri, USA)

10 Things I’ve Learned from Other Peoples’ Grocery Lists | TK (at Left Bank Books, St. Louis, Missouri, USA)

2006

Junk Science: Found objects, trash photography, strange collections and accidental art | Solo show {photography, found objects} at COCA, The Center of Creative Arts, St. Louis, Missouri, USA (MORE)

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Fine Objects / Found Art | TK (at Washington University School of Art, St. Louis, Missouri, USA)

Digital Photography Workshop | TK (at the Center for Creative Arts, St. Louis, Missouri, USA)

2005

Beyond the Printed Page | TK (at St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, Missouri, USA)

All About Business Blogs | TK (at IABC: The International Association of Business Communicators, St. Louis, Missouri, USA)

2004

The Wondrous, the Whimsical and the Weird | Invitational show {found objects} at the St. Louis Artists’ Guild, St. Louis, Missouri, USA (MORE)

2003

20 Things Retrospective | Invitational project show {photography} at 1777 Yosemite, San Francisco, California, USA (MORE)

Prior to 2000

Web Design 101 | TK (at St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, Missouri, USA (1999)

always every now & then | Two-person show {photography} at Casa Nueva, Athens, Ohio, USA (1997) (MORE)

Trisolini Undergraduate Photography Exhibit | Juried group show {photography} at Trisolini Gallery, Athens, Ohio, USA (1995) (MORE)

Spring Arts Festival | Group show {graphic design} at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA (1995)

random disruptive sequence | Solo show {multiple media} at the Dungeon Gallery, Athens, Ohio, USA (1994)

The Book Arts | Group show {handmade books} at Another Fool’s Cafe, Athens, Ohio, USA (1994)

56th Annual Student Art Exhibit | Juried group show {photography} at the McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, Ohio, USA (1992)

ICPA Winners’ Show | Judged group show {graphic design} at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA (1991)