Portfolio

This portfolio is an archive of projects and ideas.

Projects:

Creative Drawing Class (2022 – present)

Creative Drawing is a curriculum that I teach with at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center’s Studio School. In Creative Drawing, you learn contemporary drawing techniques using Radical Drawing foundations: (1) Drawing is a verb! (2) Everyone can draw, and (3) Drawing is not “good” or “bad

Radical Drawing (2018 – 2022)

Handmade apple-wood charcoal sticks drawing burnt lines on the surface of a delicate rice paper.

Radical Drawing is an array of ideas and practices that can support you as you cultivate your creative intuition. I focus on drawing because it is accessible, adaptable, and meets a variety different of needs.

Sea of Clouds (2019 – 2021)

Sea of Clouds is an photography project which documents my celestial experiences.


Drawing:

Abundances/Bodega Drawings (2022)

Abundances/Bodega Drawings is a collection of drawings and collages created in 2022 when I worked part-time at a local bodega. I used paper scraps and pieces of previous drawings to create the individual parts. Later they are assembled into dreamy still-life pieces.

Moon Drawing Magic (2021)

A hand holds a book open to the title page, which reads: Moon Drawing Magic, A Drawing Magic Workbook. Copyright 2021 Isa Be, Altars Studio.

Moon Drawing Magic is a experimental drawing workbook that supports you through a whole lunar cycle. It contains 10 drawing rituals and taps into the energies of 9 unique lunar phases.

Drawings (2018 – 2021)

I drew these pieces between 2018 and 2021. Many of these drawings were created with my partner and collaborator Dylan Cale Jones.


Ceramics:

Nerikomi Fruit Bowls (2023)

Banana Bowl 01 is a soda-fired ceramic fruit bowl with a sunshine yellow glaze over a warm brown nerikomi checker pattern.

Nerikomi Fruit Bowls is a collection of ceramic bowls made with real fruit!

Big Nerikomi (2023)

A large ceramic vase sits on the table. The vases surface is covered in a contrasting pattern of smooth, pale clay and rough, dark clay.

Big nerikomi is a collection of large, soda-fired nerikomi vases.

Nerikomi Vessels (2022)

My hand holds a patterned ceramic cup above a dense cloud of marigold flowers in early autumn.

Nerikomi Vessels is a collection of ceramic pieces for ceremony. I layer clay bodies with different colors and textures to form intricate patterns. These works are fired in atmospheric kilns. Each piece is one-of-a-kind!