In 2016, I added ice sculpting to my skill set. I and a fellow, seasoned sculptor represented the United States at the Harbin International Ice Sculpting Competition (China). We were awarded the Creativity Prize.

I returned to the United States to install at American University’s Katzen Museum in the run up to the 2016 elections, 10,752 red and blue paper airplanes folded from a year’s subscription to The Congressional Record.

I created an opportunity for teams of ceramics students from 15 area high schools to create and semi-permanently install their sculptural totems at the Grosvenor-Strathmore Metro station. I’ve been a guest lecturer at George Washington University on drug addiction and drug policy (2018). At the Smithsonian Museum (2015) I gave a talk about using art to defend the dignity of Native Americans. Other artworks have been exhibited in shows from Maryland to California.

While I was the resident artist at the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island, Washington state in 2017, I began a project to decrease the stigma of drug addiction. I travelled thousands of miles and interviewed hundreds of people suffering or recovering from drug addiction. Entitled The Empathy Fix Project, the series of seven large-scale installations suggests why many become addicted to drugs and promotes a more empathetic response.