What Still Sings

What Still Sings? is a long-term interdisciplinary project exploring migration, biodiversity, ecological memory, and the relationships that connect species, people, and distant landscapes. Beginning with migratory birds traveling between Alaska and Asia, the project has expanded through field-based research in Mexico, Thailand, Colombia, and the Brazilian Amazon.

Through large-scale drawing, sound, field recordings, original music, mapping, storytelling, and live projection, What Still Sings? transforms migration from a line on a map into a lived and emotionally resonant experience. Each location becomes a connected chapter in a larger inquiry into movement, adaptation, loss, and the fragile systems that allow life to continue across borders.

Fat Bear Week

Fat Bear Week is an annual celebration of Katmai National Park’s brown bears and the Bristol Bay ecosystem that sustains them. I have been involved with the campaign since its early years, first designing individual creative elements and gradually expanding my role to help shape its full visual identity and creative direction. Today, my work spans illustration, branding, campaign strategy, social media, educational graphics, video, merchandise, and public engagement, developed in collaboration with explore.org, the Katmai Conservancy, and Katmai National Park. Each year, I create a distinct visual world that translates the bears’ personalities, behaviors, and seasonal transformations into an accessible conservation story for a global audience. In 2026, the campaign received both a Webby Award and the People’s Voice Award in Sustainability & Environment.

World Migratory Bird Day

In 2021 I was chosen as the World Migratory Bird Day Artist. I was responsible for all graphics, art, and branding for the three international flyways. In 1993, the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center created International Migratory Bird Day (IMBD). This educational campaign focused on the Western Hemisphere celebrated its 25th year in 2018. Since 2007, IMBD has been coordinated by Environment for the Americas (EFTA), a non-profit organization that strives to connect people to bird conservation.

 In 2018, EFTA joined the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) and the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) to create a single, global bird conservation education campaign, World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD).

Arctic Refuge Virtual Bird Fest

Arctic Bird Fest is a digital campaign run by Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in partnership with Audubon Alaska that highlights the amazing birds that migrate and nest there. Since the refuge is so remote, a digital platform is used to connect people with birds from all over the world. In 2020, Bird Fest had a retro “virtual video game” theme to promote the online platform. I designed the visual identity including graphics, animations, banners, posters, video, and stickers.

Culturally Relevant Alphabet Cards for Alaskan School Districts

I was commissioned by various Alaskan School districts under a grant awarded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to create culturally relevant alphabet cards to be used in classrooms across the state. the goal is for children to learn the alphabet with relevant correlations to their lives. This project utilized collaboration between four different school districts, 12 different village councils, and elders across the state.

Animal PSA’s for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

In the beginning of the COVID 19 pandemic, I was asked to create animal related PSA’s for U.S. Fish and Wildlife for use on social media and print. I wrote the copy and created the illustrations for this campaign.

Anchorage Brewery Fat Bear Beer

As a fundraiser for the Katmai Conservancy I partnered up with the Anchorage Brewing Company to design a new beer with proceeds donated to the Katmai Conservancy. I designed the beer label, poster, and social media posts.

National Wildlife Refuge System Rebranding

As part of the National Wildlife Refuge System visual identity rebranding team, I came up with new stylistic animals to represent over 500 refuges in the United States. These illustrations are currently piloted in welcome signs around the country, and will be used in promotional materials for each refuge station.

Katmai National Park and Preserve Junior Ranger Book

In 2015 I was asked to design, illustrate, and write the Katmai National Park and Preserve Jr. Ranger Book.