Craft in the Valley

I designed the brand and marketing materials for Craft in the Valley, an exhibit curated by Simon Blattner and Barbara Wells at the Sonoma Community Center. Craft in the Valley honored the enduring value of handmade craft and the artisans who keep these traditions alive. In a world increasingly shaped by mass production and digital speed, this exhibition invited viewers to slow down and consider the meaning, beauty, and depth that come from work made by hand. The pieces in this show embody craft as art, where aesthetics and utility are inseparable—objects that are not only beautiful, but made to be lived with. They reveal craft as story and tradition, carrying within them histories of technique, culture, and personal legacy. Each maker brings a voice shaped by experience, community, and connection to place. This exhibition also championed unconstrained, hands-on creativity, where the act of making is both expressive and liberating. Without the limits of commercial replication, these works emerge from intuition, experimentation, and material curiosity. Underpinning it all is a reverence for craft as process and mastery—a quiet devotion to skill honed over time, to the rhythms of repetition and refinement, and to the maker’s intimate relationship with their tools and materials. Craft in the Valley was not just a showcase of finely made objects—it was a celebration of human presence, imagination, and the tactile intelligence that links past, present, and future through the act of making. 

In addition to my design work, two of my artist books, Entanglement and Water, Calling were included in the exhibit.