What Doing 🍂 Fall 2026

Dear Friends, 

The newest issue of Paper Choir is coming out on the autumn equinox (Sept. 22nd). Community Chaos, features recipes designed for casual weeknight gatherings sourced from the Paper Choir reader community. In it is an essay by Margaret Demment — on considering how to expand the table when you’re already stretched thin — and another by Sarah McColl, about succumbing to the mayhem of having people over as a way to deepen friendships. 

If shared soup nights with friends and neighbors is on your fall wish list, or you want to break bread with folks more often in an unfussy way, Community Chaos offers ten humble, cozy ideas for extra seats at the table. Subscribe by September 30 to receive this collection as your first issue. Purchase back issues of Paper Choir here.

Sarah and I print each issue of Paper Choir on the Risograph here in my studio (more about Riso printing).

This publication project reflects our intention and ambition to promote real-world, off-line connection by offering subscribers tangible, tactile, unexpected reading experiences. 

In October, I will be showing some new monotypes, drawings, and ceramic work along side Gabe Babcock and Roberta Monte James at Salmon Bend Art Studios during our annual show.

Salmon Bend, if you haven’t been, is an artist-run gallery at the end of persimmon-tree-lined country road—a true labor of love for the three of us (and our families) since 2021.

You are cordially invited to the opening reception on October 9th (Friday) at 4:00pm. We’d love to see you there, catch up, and share our new work with you. The gallery will be open to the public for two weekends through October 18th.  Learn more at salmonbendartstudios.com.

Speaking of family, I have the great fortune to be wedded to Mark Leidner, a treasure among our generation’s many poets. His latest collection, Elegy for Pangaea, will be published this month by Fonograf Editions. 

Reading poetry can be an effective antidote to existential dread, which is easy to find creeping around many unexpected corners these days, and this book of poems is particularly potent.

It was a joy to design.

Finally, I was recently awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship by the California Arts Council, in partnership with Nevada County Arts & Culture, for the Upstate Region — which is a very exciting honor.  This fellowship will allow me to push the above branches of my artist practice forward and outward in growth. My goal is to use this opportunity to deepen my knowledge and skills, and expand the ways I offer them to my direct community.

In other news:  

• If you’re within driving distance of Sacramento and want to learn about this Risograph printing process I’m always talking about, I’ll be teaching Intro to Risograph Basics at Verge Center for the Arts on October 1st.

• And, as always, you can find my latest prints, cards, zines, and unique home goods for purchase on in my shop.

Very best,

WINTER SHOW at Salmon Bend

I’ll be showing some new work at Salmon Bend Art Studios in November.

Salmon Bend is an artist-run gallery space in an old prune drying barn in the Sacramento Valley managed by Gabe Babcock (wood/stone/ceramic), my mom Roberta James (fiber arts), and me.

Opening Reception:
November 3rd @ 5:30pm

On view
November 4th-5th & 11th-12th
12:00pm-4:00pm

If you’re near, I hope to see you there.

WINTER SHOW at Salmon Bend

My mom is also an artist (textile/fiber arts/quilting). Last year, she and I, and our friend Gabe Babcock (ceramic/stone/wood) put on a show out at the end of Brown Road (out in the sticks) in an old prune processing barn that Gabe built-out into this beautiful gallery space. I installed some of my drawings and prints. We had a big party and opened the gallery for a few weekends in December. It was a lot of work and a lot of fun.

We’re doing it again this year, the first two weekends of December. I hope you can make it!

I will be exhibiting new artwork and some new GOODS at the Salmon Bend Art Studios’ Winter Show next month.

Happening the first two weekends in December (3-4th & 10-11th), open Noon-4:00pm.

If you’re local to Colusa, CA come out for the opening reception on Saturday
December 3rd, 2022 • 4:00-6:00pm

Featured artist:
Gabe Babcock
Roberta James
LK James