e-mail | send me a message
Family | I live in Rexburg, Idaho, with my beautiful wife and children.
Farm | Over the past two years, we have had a dog, cats, goats, chickens, and rabbits. In the summer of 2009 we shared a trout farm with a neighbor. In the summer of 2010 eight chicks hatched and followed their mothers around the yard eating all of the spiders. It is nice to live outside of town where we can enjoy our little farm.
Favorite things | Teaching, Apple computers, iPod, iPad, books, ant farms, monarch caterpillars, hammocks, receiving packages and Legos.
Transplant | On May 26, 2008, I received a liver transplant. I am alive today because of a caring person willing to be a donor. Please consider being an organ donor.
Hobbies | Amateur Ukulele builder, Monarch caterpillars, Apple computers, Reading Young Adult novels, Digital illustration
Books | Un-Brella, Roaring Brook Press, April 2007.
Brigham Young University–Idaho | Rexburg, Idaho
Professor, Department of Art (1994-present)
The Kuester Group | Minneapolis, Minnesota
Graphic Designer (1992-1994)
Other Employment | Chewbacca costumed character, Doughnut shop attendant, Pineapple picker and planter, Car washing, Library page, Computer lab assistant, Graphic Designer.
Washington Terrace Elementary | K-5 | Ogden, Utah
North Park Elementary | 6, the first half | Roy, Utah
Ammon Elementary | 6, the second half | Ammon, Idaho
Bonneville Jr. High School | Idaho Falls, Idaho
Bonneville High School | Idaho Falls, Idaho | (1984)
Ricks College | AA degree | Rexburg, Idaho | (1989)
Art Center College of Design | BFA | Pasadena, California | (1992)
Utah State University | MFA | Logan, Utah | (1998)
An average of 18 people die each day from the lack of available organs for transplant.
Un-Brella | What if instead of an umbrella you had an UN-brella? Imagine that when this unbrella was opened it suddenly made the world around you change in exciting ways. Open up this book to find out how one little girl's unbrella changes her world.
Digital painting | experimental digital paintings
A-Line | a limited edition series of digital drawings
Life in Lyman | stamps from my wonderfully ordinary life
A doodle-a-day | 100 daily doodles