I grew up in West Valley City and after high school, attended Dixie Sate College in Southern Utah. I returned to Salt Lake City and began working with SLUG Magazine in 1999, working on journalist’s pieces and concert photography. I also co- founded the Summer of Death Skate series and founded the SLUG Games amateur snowboard contest series. Collectively I have hosted +30 amateur events, each unique and open to all ages and abilities. I believe that by hosting events I learned valuable lessons of networking and production that allowed me a wide range technical skills.
In the fall of 2006, I also co-founded THREE Magazine, a monthly free publication that focused on my passions, which included sports, music and art. I was responsible for print production and overall creative direction. The magazine distribution surpassed 10,000 issues a month covering all major metropolitan areas in Utah and surrounding states including Colorado, Wyoming, and Idaho. After a year of production and events, the magazine joined forces with 9350, another local magazine, which became Arkade Magazine. At this point I decided to leave the print world and pursue my own art interests.
Since 2008 I have been focused on honing my own art skills in the graphic field and visual representation of my ideas. I have had three solo art shows featuring my original acrylic and my designs appear routinely in 5 local publications. I also founded, Art Adoption, an art show I’ve organized for the past 5 years which features 20+ local artists and allows them the opportunity to show their work to friends and acquaintances and hopefully, ‘get art out of their house and into another loving house.”
In the spring of 2013 I undertook the largest project to date with Four Corners project entered to bring awareness to the liter and waste cycle in Utah. The ‘Four Corners’ reached its goal of visiting the four ‘corners’ of our state, picking up litter and documenting the effort along the way. From Utah’s smallest cities to its largest municipalities, canyons, state and national parks, I’ve traveled highways, freeways, scenic routes and rural roads, stopping intermittently to fill UDOT trash bags and remove what I can physically travel with over a 3-week period. My efforts have seen a total of 427.3 lbs. of trash thus far — a nauseating sum. From beer cans that oxidize in our environment to plastic bottles and bags that photo-degrade into our surface water…plastic is fast becoming the future generation’s ‘downwinders’. Now my future efforts will continue to push for the elimination of single-use plastic bags along with laws to help regulate the production and containment of future waste.