creative
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creative design & multi-media projects
Creative design is integral to most projects I work within; however, some exist outside the scope of traditional written work or community campaigns. While the intention remains the same, the medium is less defined in these projects that pull from my love for words and found objects captured by an iPhone camera or tucked away in a dusty file.
WORK vol. 1 release
WORK Vol. 1 is a found sound album from Audio Library of the West (ALoW). Creative design features album artwork, made from collaged archived pieces, and images from across Wyoming’s rural towns, including Laramie, Wheatland, and Sunrise, a former company mining town.
audio library of the west found-sound album collection
Album covers for ALoW’s four-part release were constructed with found objects from the Laramie Plains Civic Center’s archive, including marketing materials and vinyl letters from the late 1970s.
at peace, for helen
jess brauer & john wilhelm
Lifting its text directly from the 1911 James Oppenheim poem “Bread and Roses” — a phrase he lifted from the speeches of Chicago suffragette and labor activist Helen Todd — At Peace, for Helen is made of found objects and relief-printed forms.
This piece is about sustaining the body and soul through differing, but intertwined practices. The symbols and text in this work have been continually reused, borrowed, and stolen from artist to artist and historical actors past and present.
As creative partners, we both borrowed, influenced, and expanded each other's contributions to this final creation, much like the silent and unacknowledged iterations of this rallying cry in the words from Oppenheim, Todd, and others.
In the proud tradition of art as resistance, At Peace, for Helen asks us to call on our collaborators and remember the continued need to fight for equity, along all lines of division.
Building a New World from the Shell of the Old
Summer 2026, Gorgon Gallery
Presented by Alces Community Works, supported by Wyoming Humanities, in partnership with the Working-Class Studies Association Conference
Civic Service Report
a found text reflection on the labor of community builders [1983/2026]
