KEEP WRITING no 78 September 2015 May we all... lead many lives. When Travis died, I knew I wanted to print something for him, something to share with friends at the memorial I would be attending in New York. I sifted through letters and zines and finally came upon this wish for our younger selves:

KEEP WRITING no 77 August 2015 What keeps you going when you’re down I love this card but I think the wording was often misleading. You tell me: it is meant to say, you have to take care of yourself first. You can’t be depressed or sick and help others.

KEEP WRITING no 76 July 2015 The best thing in your neighborhood When I lived in Oakland, I struggled to find the kinds of friends and community I had in New Orleans. But sometimes I would find something sweet that reminded me of my favorite city.

KEEP WRITING no 75 June 2015 YOU get better Why no question this month? Because sometimes I want a break. And I wanted to print a gradient like the background, something you can’t do on platen presses with an ink disk.

KEEP WRITING no 74 May 2015 I am a________ having a__________ At this moment, I was in a yoga teacher training. I later quit teaching yoga because of the complicated ties with colonialism and cultural appropriation, and I wasn’t prepared to be go deeper into body and movement study.

KEEP WRITING no 73 April 2015 What will you bring to the collapse of industrialized society? In 2005, in New Orleans, while awaiting Hurricane Katrina, I collected all there perishables our friends bought to the house we would share during the storm.

KEEP WRITING no 72 March 2015 Encourage a friend Another design I liked so much I redesigned it in 2023. When Bear and I briefly shared a lofted 1 bedroom apartment near LSU, I was very unsure about my decision to move to Baton Rouge to be a 31 year old undergrad.

KEEP WRITING no. 71 February 2015 How will you contribute to the fight for racial equality? Six months after the murder of Michael Brown, I was living in Oakland. The immense tragedy, frustration, months of protests, and lack of accountability by cops had me feeling worn down.

KEEP WRITING no. 70 January 2015 Happy New Year I remember printing this one on the Universal 1 again but who can trust memory. Again, with the experimenting. Linocut image, big type, opaque white ink tinted with purple on dark paper. Subtle colors, a not so subtle reference to water.

KEEP WRITING no 69 December 2014 Share a holiday tradition Sometimes you just want to draw palm trees and holiday lights. I was trying out making holiday cards, something I didn’t enjoy. But I like them as Keep Writing cards.

KEEP WRITING no 68 November 2014 Share a forgotten historical fact There was a while where Anita Hill was just a law professor at Yale, before we had to listen to hours of similar testimony and interrogation of Christine Blasey Ford.

KEEP WRITING no 67 October 2014 Knuckle tattoos! I told you I was on a roll. It was fun to draw hands! It is fun to think about knuckle tattoos. I still don’t have any. Letterpress printed with polymer plates on chipboard and some French Paper with a borrowed Heidelberg Windmill Letterpress.

KEEP WRITING no 66 September 2014 Share an annoying saying That story is long and a bit complicated but one part of it was that I agreed to be a temporary full time manager while a permanent one was found.

KEEP WRITING no 65 August 2014 My goals Again, a month with no question but here’s why: I knew I would be traveling for July and August to the southeast. I planned ahead. I printed cards for both month’s, mailed July’s, probably from the airport post box as I often did when I traveled.

KEEP WRITING no 64 July 2014 Set a few goals The second most popular design. A former co-worker, Sol Weiss illustrated a few cards for me. The tight registration was something I usually avoided, but it looked good. I reprinted this card many, many times, and redesigned it in 2023.

KEEP WRITING no 63 June 2014 New address Ok, I moved into a new place in Oakland, a beautiful old Victorian that charmed me with a sunny front room and a tiny back yard. It soon revealed its own problems but in this first month I set up a studio in the front room which had gold flocked wallpaper.

KEEP WRITING no 62 May 2014 Dump all your worries here I feel like this is where I start hitting my stride. I know, I skipped number 60 and then the month of April, but the next year or two of cards is what I think of when someone asks about this project. Maybe it is the press.

KEEP WRITING no 61 March 2014 Tell me about the signs you’ve been listening to. No. You didn’t fall asleep there. I got so excited that I was printing on a Heidelberg Windmill that I skipped number 60.

KEEP WRITING no 59 February 2014 Tell me how you met one of your good friends The sweetest response I received to this questions from two friends I had introduced, who sat at a coffee shop in New Orleans and wrote it together. They weren’t dating, just friends.

KEEP WRITING no 58 January 2014 New Year’s Card Ok, as you know, most months I ask a question. Sometimes I skip a month, sometimes I use the wrong number. Sometimes, I don’t ask a question and just send you something to enjoy. I like this especially in January.

KEEP WRITING no 57 December 2013 What is your work? Well, reading the information on the outside of this card, I printed it at home, so I was still gratefully using Ben’s universal one. Thanks Ben. I doubt I thanked him enough.

KEEP WRITING no 56 November 2013 Say thank you How cute was it to celebrate 5 years? Maybe I can say that now that I’ve had a 10 and 15 year anniversary party. I’m glad no one did the math in that it may have been 5 years but I was at least 2 postcards short of 60.

KEEP WRITING no 55 October 2013 What are you reading? It also took me a full year to get an Oakland library card and ten years later I can’t picture any of the libraries I went to. Who was I in 2013? I was trying. (Editors note: these captions are written in July 2024. Summer.

KEEP WRITING no 54 August 2013 Venn diagram This project started as a way to 1)keep in touch with friends and pen pals and 2) challenge myself to try new techniques in printing and design. The second part gets lost sometimes. I was really excited about overlaps and balancing colors.

KEEP WRITING no 53 July 2013 Never Get Old/Never Get Young I am not sure what I meant by this and if I re-printed it I might reconsider the phrase “never get young.” A better example of a pair of phrases that I carry despite their oppositional meanings would be: never give up//quit everything.

KEEP WRITING no 52 June 2013 Prince prints son of prince. The first place I lived in Oakland was this weird little compound. My roommate Ben brought a Vandercook Universal one and a bunch of type from North Carolina and was kind enough to share. It lived in a beautiful garage.

KEEP WRITING no 51 May 2013 Never bring____________into your home I love a fill in the blank. Once in a while I like to turn a messy sketch into a card, especially when inspired by a fortune from my favorite vegan restaurant in Oakland’s Chinatown.

KEEP WRITING no 50 April 2013 What do you want to tell yourself? So cute that I was excited to make it to 50 cards! One of the most popular designs I’ve made. I redesigned it later, with a better question but the design remained similar.

KEEP WRITING no 49 March 2013 Say hi to your neighbor. It’s almost like the guilt of skipping a month propels more complicated designs. Not the first 3 part card, but one of my favorite designs. Once card for saying hi to a neighbor, one for telling me about it.

KEEP WRITING no 48 February 2013 Sometimes I get too upset for a question. This month, an experiment in layering metallic ink over a base of rubber ink. Letterpress printed with polymer plates on chipboard salvaged from packaged stamps.

KEEP WRITING no 46 again January 2013 What do you do to get out of the rut of regularity. An experiment in process and numbering. Yes, last month’s card was also 46. I am not my own best proofreader.

KEEP WRITING no 46 December 2012 Where are you from? I love gold ink and handset type. Sharing the love for my new home in Oakland. What a wild time. It barely rained, my best friend lived a train ride away, my roommate let me use his printshop. I missed LA but I was doing my best to acclimate.

KEEP WRITING no 45 October 2012 Asking what are your assumptions about the south? Was moving to the Bay Area for an internship and a very low paying part time job a good idea? Maybe not. But my internship at the SFCB taught me so much about printing and lead to me teaching there!

WRITING no 44 September 2012 Send me a memory of your first home Letterpress printed on chipboard and sewn There are a few instances of Keep Writing being printed by someone else. Some gracious collaborators offered. I sometimes think about a final card being printed by someone else if I can’t.

KEEP WRITING no 43 August 2012 Letterpress printed on vintage postcards In the first few years of Keep Writing, I occasionally skipped a month. Sometimes, I was too behind with school work, sometimes I was traveling. For this card, I collected 100 postcards in my six months in Europe.

KEEP WRITING no 42 May 2012 mailed from Milan Send Walker a word to be used in a story part 5 of 5 posts about printing in italy If you missed it, the letterpress part of the card was printed before I left Lousiana, at Blackbird Letterpress.

KEEP WRITING no 41 May 2012 mailed from Milan Write about what you’re appreciating 4 of 5 posts about printing in italy Still in Milan, I printed this in my apartment. I was drawing a bit now, after buying a few watercolor pencils at an art store near my school.

KEEP WRITING no 40 April 2012 mailed from Milan send to someone you miss 3 of 5 posts about printing in italy I could’ve graduated. I had that big show, I passed all my classes. But I wanted to return to Italy. I signed up for a study abroad program based in Milan, packed my bags and left.

KEEP WRITING no 39 March 2012 mailed from Milan responses sent to Ella! 2 of 5 posts about printing in italy Now the fun question: how did I print these while I was in Milan?

KEEP WRITING no 38 February 2012 mailed from Milan 1 of 5 posts about printing in italy I could’ve graduated. I had that big show, I passed all my classes. But I wanted to return to Italy. I signed up for a study abroad program based in Milan, packed my bags and left.

KEEP WRITING no 37 January 2012 subscriber check in With my senior show behind me and 6 months in Milan ahead, I was making plans for how to continue this project abroad, again.

KEEP WRITING no 36 December 2011 BFA show artist statement Woo-ee! The first show of postcards and responses and a lot more work than I needed to do as an undergrad. The artist statements were printed on handmade paper made with stuff subscribers sent me (see #29). Printed with a polymer plate.

KEEP WRITING no 35 November 2011 BFA chow invitation Another step in preparation for my BFA show and graduation from LSU—my show invites were sent to subscribers and requested that they draw a self portrait. I hung all the portraits at the show, as a way to bring my subscribers to the event.

KEEP WRITING no. 34 October 2011 i had designed this card to print custom stationery for a friend as they finished law school. That never happened but I did make recipe cards. I chose 10 recipes and made them for my show in December 2011, featuring the Keep Writing project.

KEEP WRITING no. 33 September 201 Inspired by a dramatic haircut and then I accidentally made tiny polymer plates to print it , and needed up silkscreen printing the blue and brown. And added white in letterpress.

KEEP WRITING no. 32 Aug 2011 While preparing for my senior show and my last semester LSU, the Post Office moved out of the student union and gave me a new address! As I was relying on mailed responses to fill out my show! It was the second change of address for this project.

finally finished my SQUATCH postcard for the @specialagentcollagecollective.com collab with @keepwritingproject.bsky.social . If you’ve been waiting, here’s your reminder they are due Friday! #postcard #collage #spring #enbyartist #pnw

KEEP WRITING no. 31 July 2011 The drawing I used for this was also used in a very beautiful artist book by Alluvium Press.

KEEP WRITING no. 30 June 2011 I learned this one page zine format from Purgatory Pie Press and still teach it as an instant zine project!

KEEP WRITING no. 29 May 2011 At this point I knew my BFA shout in December 2011 would include the Kep Writing postcards so in May I asked for folks to send things to be included in a batch of paper I would make to print a special Keep Writing.