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10/13/2025

✨ CALL TO COMMUNITY: A Collaborative Counter-Monument Project ✨

I’m beginning the first phase of a new project — a counter-monument that’s built collaboratively with my community.

This project invites friends, family, and anyone who feels connected to contribute to a large-scale sewn assemblage made from meaningful materials. The goal is to create something together that reflects the strength, care, and creativity of the people around me.

Here’s what I’m asking:

If you’re local: come into my studio (Sunshine Daydream Productions in Plymouth, MA) during designated sessions to sew, connect, and contribute.

If you’re not nearby: you can mail your contribution, and I’ll add it to the collective piece.

What to contribute: anything that can be sewn on a home sewing machine — fabric, paper, a lived-in garment, lace, ribbon, or a handwritten note on sturdy paper or cloth. You can bring your own materials or use what I provide. Be creative and choose something that feels meaningful to you.

Each contribution will become part of a large, sewn-together piece — a collective creation made from the materials, memories, and stories of my community. For those participating from afar, this can also be seen as a symbolic pilgrimage — a gesture of connection and care.

This project is about shifting the focus away from isolation and exhaustion, and toward creativity, gratitude, and community. Together, we’ll build something that reminds us what it means to create — and live — collectively.

If you’d like to participate, comment below, message me, or email me at [email protected]
Let’s make something together.

Today Bodies and Borders opened, and I am feeling OVERWHELMED with gratitude to be part of this show. Before we got to t...
10/02/2025

Today Bodies and Borders opened, and I am feeling OVERWHELMED with gratitude to be part of this show. Before we got to today/the opening, each of the people involved made big choices and moves in order to make it happen. The first including .artists (the whole team), and . Along with the artists on this list, shipping and sharing from 4 countries and over 30 states in the US. The show is brilliant. To be included in this show alongside these incredible minds and makers truly makes me feel grateful beyond belief, so to you all — humbly, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Additionally, if you are in the area (Chickamauga, GA) please do yourself a favor and check out this incredible show!

Being able to find a tribe of folks who are making work aligned with the core values that I have been working with and advocating for feels rare in the unprecedented times that we are living in nowadays. Thinking about the crushing weight of capitalism, colonialism, land reform, etc. through community, through art making and through the body, alongside others, empowers us as individuals and as a working human force to hope for better, do better and advocate/demand for better.

“Do you hear that thunder? That’s the sound of strength in numbers” -Idles

A little bit of what life has been like lately, we bought the house we have been searching for (and it even came with ch...
08/21/2025

A little bit of what life has been like lately, we bought the house we have been searching for (and it even came with chickens!) took a lil business trip to Ptown and spent the day with Georgie experiencing the best of what Ptown has to offer, have been given so many amazing signs that I am divinely protected and loved from the other side, have some upcoming exciting art stuff happening with the quilt 👀, still working on my book, leaning into the domesticity that comes with homeownership but also excited to dig my heals into what’s next for the art part of my life and feeling (as always) overwhelmed by gratitude xx

2/2 🥰
07/14/2025

2/2 🥰

Post 1/2: a little bit of life before and a little bit of life after residency. Surrounded by love and light and some ve...
07/14/2025

Post 1/2: a little bit of life before and a little bit of life after residency. Surrounded by love and light and some very cherished peeps 😍

Residency 3/5: post 2/2 ft. My favorite bookends (first and last slide) that’s all for now! xx
07/14/2025

Residency 3/5: post 2/2 ft. My favorite bookends (first and last slide) that’s all for now! xx

Residency 3/5: post 1/2… Oh man this was a gooooood one for sure. We were all able to experience This Must Be The Place ...
07/14/2025

Residency 3/5: post 1/2… Oh man this was a gooooood one for sure. We were all able to experience This Must Be The Place the incredible culmination of years of work by my brilliant friend . Celebrating this work and Diana was so special. I got to reconnect with and see what my cohort (whom I love and admire so dearly) members were up to all semester. We also got to meet some amazing artists who participated in this residency through the fellowship program. (If you were a fellow — first of all THANK YOU and second of all ilyall). We all were able to take an amazing books and zines class by which was SO inspiring and I am working on a book which is inclusive of some of my writings and photographs of the monument and monument site as well as a subsequent series called “book of scraps” (in collaboration with Caleb), which are small books made with the scraps from making the original book….so keep those eyes peeled for some upcoming book stuff! Additionally, I got to learn how to print Riso thanks to the talented and generous .pyn . S/o to .oatt and Bo (someone send me Bo’s insta plz) for all their helps with computing and general moral support. We aren’t going to talk about how I destroyed my computer 3 days into residency with an actual SIP of coffee, even for a second but without literally everyone’s moral support including those at home I would have had a way harder time. We took an amazing professional development class where we learned how to be real artists in the world 😆 and apply to grants and stuff, we got to workshop our resumes/cv’s/bio’s/statements in a group which was INVALUABLE thank you a million (hoping there’s a part 2 to this class next residency). Another part of Greer’s class was our field trip to check out some of the public works at the naval yard that are part of the Triennial which was superrrrr cool, .c.xyz was so kind and gracious with her time. S/o to Christine Collins for making such an amazing residency for us I literally have no idea how she did it but she put together an absolute banger!!!!!

I’m probably missing a million other thank you’s but this is what I got for rn 🙂

The last installment/post before residency (which starts tomorrow)….this is probably the most important post yet because...
06/20/2025

The last installment/post before residency (which starts tomorrow)….this is probably the most important post yet because this is where we put the whole thang together! It was a challenge figuring out how to get it through the machine, for that part we can thank ~pink pool noodles~….basically we put the bottom half and the top half together and then had to attach the center piece and the left and right weavings and accompanying “stripes” (connecting pieces of creme fabric with a green stripe down the middle)….we hand bound the center square to the rest to hold it in place so we could actually stitch it using the machine. We then pinned the black “border”/binder together and made the backing which is made of a blue wool US Merchant Marine Corps blanket with maroon trim to custom fit the front (dimensionally). We then hand bound the wool backing to the front using long needles and embroidery floss….after that we attached the black border/binder to both the backing and the front using the sewing machine once again!

This was a true labor of love, filled with ~anything but~ straight stitches, lines, hems you name it. The last week and a half or so I battled some nasty illness and would not have been able to push through without Mary’s guidance, help, sewing knowledge, adaptive nature, aptitude, ginger juice that was probably the only thing that made me feel better, resilience, pep talks, willingness to be around a sick person and literal sheer will. HUGE shout out to Mary. I would not have been able to do any of this without her.

This is “Guilt Quilt” or as Mary and I nicknamed it/ fondly spoke as we were putting it together : “Franken-Quilt”.

Will update when my studio at residency is all set up — and with some writing about this piece and future plans, as this is just the beginning…Thanks for following me along on this journey! xx

More process videos and some updates, evolution on the collages, figuring out where everything goes, putting stuff toget...
06/11/2025

More process videos and some updates, evolution on the collages, figuring out where everything goes, putting stuff together and adding detail….now that all of the components are complete it’s time to see them all together (strategically of course), put the border on and attach the backing. Updates to come! xx

More process from todays session. You will see various elements of collage which I basically did all day today….we are t...
05/30/2025

More process from todays session. You will see various elements of collage which I basically did all day today….we are testing materials with the printer, we are printing on circular coffee filters, cold brew 50 gallon coffee filters, a fabric like material called “banner” (basically the material that all banners are made of, duh!), another polyester fabric, paper, and more….with the filters the point is to have a form of opacity in order to layer in ways, we have found that it works best to have bolder images in the background and softer images or text on the opaque material in the foreground. These materials are a challenge to learn (how they react to ink, oils, printer ink, paint, gesso/matte medium, etc….a lot of this materiality is a first time thing for me so processing/learning while we is happening most of the time-HUGE shout-out to Mary Taylor-my counterpart in this video and throughout this project who is guiding me through this-she is a printing and fabrication expert)…

What you see at the end of the time lapse studio video is us beginning to cut and format strips of sourced/thrifted fabric that will act not only as a binder and squares/strips that will be part of the quilt itself but also as the frame of the piece…the next steps are 1. Securing all of the collage squares and 2. cutting and assembling/sewing the fabric together to then assembling it to the rest of the laid out (planned/projected) “quilt”

As promised, the first slide is the weaving that I finished from the process video yesterday, and then from there the or...
05/29/2025

As promised, the first slide is the weaving that I finished from the process video yesterday, and then from there the order is the most recent ——> to the beginning of where I started with this weaving concept. These are being used now to make “quilt” blocks (I put quilt in parentheses because it’s not going to be a traditional functional quilt but will resemble a quilt and act as a quilt but for specific purposes). Bonus points if you know what a “hair shirt” is….if you don’t, look it up at your own risk.

A lot of this project for me has been research as well as trying to figure out why I am interested in this monument and how I truly feel about it….this “quilt” will address exactly that; it will be inclusive and indicative of the research, the writings, the feelings, the rage, the guilt, the inquiry, the history and act as a shroud of how this process has been making me feel and how I am processing the work and the feelings through making and researching….sitting in uncomfortable places and really leaning into something that you are deeply interested in simultaneously even if it’s hard, is still worth it.

Basically it will be (well, really is in the process of becoming) assemblage/mixed media/collage/sewing/fiber arts stuff/may be inclusive of dried plants? It’s a process and sometimes it comes out different than you expected but that’s part of it all. As always, I will keep updating as things evolve but for now, enjoy the weavings ✨😁 xx

Life has been wonderful since my last post. As things evolve ~art wise~ I am aiming to be more present on here…but hones...
04/07/2025

Life has been wonderful since my last post. As things evolve ~art wise~ I am aiming to be more present on here…but honestly I’ve been a busy bee, writing, making, thinking about making, conceptualizing for new work, enjoying time with people that I love, and practicing gratitude. I’m finding lots of symbolism in the world around me like that of old thought patterns or learned cultural pedagogy cycling to the surface though imagery or situational happenings. I’m diving deep into family archives. I’m learning a ton. I’m researching daily to keep myself informed and I’m thinking a lot about “the art of facism”, the art that becomes art because of resistance to facism, the art that becomes art because of facism….and about monuments as aestheticized large scale tangible and memorialized propaganda. Although life brings uncertainties, we have a lot to be thankful for, everyday is a gift. xx

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The Owner: Meet Katie, Owner and Creator of Sunshine Daydream Productions. Katie is a graduate of Saint Michael’s College in Vermont. There she double majored, graduating with a Bachelor’s of Fine Art Degree and an Environmental Studies degree. Katie’s love for nature and vibrant colors drive her aesthetically pleasing creations.

The Studio: Katie recently opened a studio above Pirate Girl Smoke Shop in Plymouth, MA, where she will create, exhibit, teach and collaborate with other local artists. In her words, “the studio is meant to be an open place, I want people to feel like they can come and feel comfortable while creating.” Some of Katie’s future plans for her new found space include:


  • Gallery Events featuring local artists

  • Paint Parties