The Mangroves of Masters Bayou
Jay Youngdahl
2023
Jay and I worked together on turning motifs on pottery shards found in the area into vibrant colorful abstract drawings. We used the car sun-visor (a nod to Florida’s sun) and the tables within the reading room of the library as a format for Jay’s photographs of life in the bayou. To document the exhibition we created an artists’ book that worked as an exhibition catalog and a work of art in and of itself.
Communications, Office of Marketing and. “Exploring Mangroves and the Human Existence.” Ringling College, 17 Mar. 2023, www.ringling.edu/news/031723-spcollections-mangroves/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2024.
Kline, Wes. “Jay Youngdahl: The Mangroves of Masters Bayou.” Cultbytes, 10 May 2023, cultbytes.com/jay-youngdahl-the-mangroves-of-masters-bayou/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2024.
I’m a designer with a background in photography, publishing, and librarianship.
Most recently, I was an in-house Designer at Harvard Innovation Labs. Freelance clients include Hindman Auctions (Freeman’s | Hindman), Pillar VC, First to Knock, Jay Youngdahl, and more.
Before my career in design I was an academic librarian at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
In my spare time I maintain a personal art practice that is based in photography. Since 2017, I have published and edited Challenger, a BMX magazine that takes multiple forms. Its current form is a monthly subscriber only newsletter.
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