Professional Services
Food Illustration + Hand-Lettering + Writing
I am open for collaborations! My specialty is untangling the hard-to-explain ideas in your brain and displaying them in easy-to-digest visual or written forms. My bread and butter theme is food culture, but digressions include mother/parenthood, anti-racism, and improving higher education.
Email me to see how I can help.
Book Illustration
As I am a person whose brain works with both visual imagery and the written word, we can collaborate back-and-forth to create illustrations that deeply connect to the words on the page.
It would be an honor to help you birth your book!
My books:
Kage ABC / Cake Alphabet: a cake for every letter, published Summer 2020 by Koustrup & Co. I created cover and interior illustrations, as well as full color illustrated endpapers in this cookbook for kids.
God Smag / Good Taste: cooking everyday with the 5 tastes, coming Summer 2021 by Koustrup & Co. I cover and interior illustrations, interior illustrations in this book for adult home cooks.
Storytelling & Content Creation
Do you need help telling a story in a way that resonates? I can lend my writing and/or illustration skills to the task.
Past project highlights:
Send More Spices: Creating a Place at the Table for Immigrant Women in Denmark for Good Food Jobs
A Creative Solution to Dairy’s Hidden Casualty: Selma Jensen’s ‘Young Bulls’ for Good Food Jobs
The Onion: Slow & Steady Brings out Sweetness, an Heirloom Food Story for Smiling Gardener
The Potato: Seek out Many Stories, an Heirloom Food Story for Smiling Gardener
Risalamande: A Dish to Bridge Two Worlds for The International
“Wow. Thank you. Your article on the onion slowed me down; brought me right into the moment...I am looking forward to everything you have to offer.”
– Magi Tomasic
Custom Gifts & Greetings
Sending a special note to your colleagues, employees, or clients? Looking for a meaningful item for a fundraiser? Wanting a party favor that sticks with guests long after the event? I’d embrace the collaboration.
Past project highlights:
Three Custom Illustrated Recipes for Nashville Food Project’s Fundraiser Auction
On-site, time-bound creation of custom artwork for Wayfinding Academy’s student orientation; each piece was presented immediately after completion in front of a live audience.
“I want to thank you for this process – the work was beautiful, the process easy and smooth despite the physical distance, everything was prompt, and most of all, you handled an obviously sentimental and personal subject with great care…Best of luck with your work- it's important stuff.”
– Ben Piñon
Photo: Brighton West
Educational Materials & Classes
I teach about food culture through both stand-alone media and in-person classes. Developing curriculum that provokes new perspective is my jam.
Past project highlights:
Food Culture Explorers, a 12-hour Lab for Wayfinding Academy
The Power of Food, a 12-hour Lab for Wayfinding Academy
‘I Can’t Cook’ and Other Assumptions, a Workshop for Wayfinding Academy
Heirloom Mail, a monthly subscription box in collaboration with The Recipe Hunters
“Her depth of research, her preparation, and her raw passion eloquently expressed and beautifully demonstrated.”
– Food Culture Explorers student