• Over the next couple of weeks the site will be updated with new artwork from 2008, including an updated resume, artwork created as an AmeriCorps volunteer with/for Asian Human Services daycare and after school programs and Chicago's After School Matters program, new plate created for REACH's 5th Annual "REACH for the Stars...Transform a Life" Artist and Celebrity Plate Auction, and artwork created for Community Legal Resources Annual Event. In the meantime, if you would like to see some of my recent projects from the end of last year, you can check out:
  
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• The NEWS section will now be updated through blogspot.

• After living in Chicago for ten years, I have moved back to my hometown of Madison Heights, MI and have begun working on projects in my new work space, which is located in my childhood home.

• My first taste as a Detroit local artist (after ten years) was had at Community Legal Resources Ten Year Anniversary/Annual Event on Tuesday, Dec. 2nd, 2008 in the Guardian Building in downtown Detroit. Community Legal Resources connects lawyers and communities by fostering pro bono legal representation for unfulfilled legal needs of nonprofit community organizations in Michigan that serve low-income individuals and communities, with an emphasis on community economic development activities. In honor of CLR's 10th Anniversary they had commissioned me to create prints to be awarded to the law firms and lawyers who volunteered their services to make a better Detroit.

• Planning to use my AmeriCorps Education Award to enroll myself in the dual certificate program in web design and graphic design at the College for Creative Studies OR to take business management classes at a local college.

• Making long-term goals in starting up my own business painting children's murals.

• Began storyboarding for Morning Star: Comics & Stuff, Issue #4--I am planning to change the name of Morning Star to something else.