It’s climate month! I’m happy to say I’ll be in another show: A Persistent Nature, curated by @imagineearthcollective The exhibit is hosted by Gallery B , managed by the Bethesda Arts &Entertainment District!

Another great gallery opening! So grateful to live in a place that uplifts local artists! Thanks so much to the amazing people that support me and fellow creatives! #shopmadeindc #shedc #community #womenshistorymonth

Thankful for this crew that joined me at the Georgetown SHE:DC opening! As always, a fun event with great food, fun activities, and amazing art from DC artists! The show will be up all month— stop by if you’re in the area! #grateful #womensupportingwomen #fuckingdainty (it’ll catch on)

I’m so excited to share that I’m an artist in SHE:DC again this year for Women’s History Month 💛💪💃🧘‍♀️🤸‍♀️ You can find my work in TWO locations this month: ✨ Georgetown ✨ She:DC Gallery + Pop-Up (Downtown DC) Join me: 💛 March 5 – SHE Night Out (Sip + Shop) 💛 March 12 – Opening Party Or stop by anytime in March to see the work. Link to events & more info in bio! Also, shout out to @superbluetheband for a great song! The pieces that were accepted are especially close to my heart after the last year. I am proud to have them displayed alongside the work of other DC women! #gallery #shopmadedc #shedc #spoon #paint

Getting closer! #spring #womensupportingwomen Music by @tiapennysings (check her out, she’s amazing!)

Trying desperately to get some images out of my head and bring them into the world… here’s a smattering of inspiration #paint #nature #power #blue #womensupportingwomen

Inspiration haul from the Barnes Museum in #philadelphia What an incredible collection! Particularly love the Cezzane and Matisse representation! @barnesfoundation #sketch #cezanne

Anyone else’s brain work like this? Even in my day job, I always think in color. Happy New Year, all! May you find ways to be true to yourself this year and live vibrantly! #color #visualize #newyear

Congratulations card to the Koo’s! The beautiful mountains of Crested Butte are the perfect backdrop for any day— especially a wedding! #crestedbutte #colorado #wedding #watercolor

Somehow she can get carded twice, get mistaken for an undergrad, and own a HOME all in a day! Love you, @hipposandmangos and thanks for the visit! #watercolor #carproject #paintingonthemove #homeowner

Sometime when someone lives so beautifully, it really is a happy celebration of life! #crest #flowers #celebrationoflife #watercolor

I got asked a few times this week: “when do you find the time to paint?” Keeping in mind I don’t have kids, here’s the answer: Early morning, late night, on-the-go… if there’s one thing my professors and mentors have instilled, it’s dedication to studio time 💪 Limit TV, internet rabbit holes, social media doom scrolling, and get addicted to your creative pursuits! Fun fact: after this morning of painting before work, I spent the day (at a roundtable with external stakeholders!) with green paint on my legs without noticing. 😅 #earlybirds #earlymorning #grind #passion #creativity #selfcare #nightowl #oilpaint #whateverittakes

“Peek of Lake George” — what a fun time! Hanging out with this crew always feels like going home 💛 #lakegeorge #cards #cardplayers #watercolor

For the win: a community with no cars, live music, and salty air! #watercolor #bike

So proud of my dad @jessemichaelnewman , for his marvelous work on the Cowboy Carter tour! My soul feels so full— evocative visuals, moving words, and So much dancing. #america #cowboycarter #beyonce #vfx #jessenewman #proud #ai @jesse_michael_newman @jessenewman2 (Dad, why do you have so many Instagram accounts? Love you 😉)

Who wants to commission Zahren-Newman Group to paint a mural? Itching for a big canvas, especially after getting inspired by DC murals today! #mural #inspired Also, find yourself a partner who’s perfectly okay with you turning your date time into a painting session 💛 @matthewproegler #relationshipgoals #support #love

An experimental day… #yellow #alcohol #paint #color #sunshine

Incredible trip to Georgia! My kind of golf: actually just watercoloring and cheering on people I love 😄 #acuarela #watercolor #georgia #reynolds #greensboro #atlanta #summer #family

Mural on a budget to uplift the community!

Such a wholesome beach trip! 💛 #family #memorialday #shells #obx #friends #watercolor #campfire #campfiresongs

SOLD! To the badass lady who has been such a great friend and inspiration! @maddydru I’m so honored to have you be the person to take this piece home! Too bad this is the only photo we took today #debitirarmasfotos

#keepgoing

In case you needed even More reasons to show up to the DC Climate Week National Job Fair today… come interact with my visual love letter to the fed family! #mural #interactive

Move visitors while my piece, “Women Supporting Women” was in the She:DC gallery— including the OG Woman, my mom! #thankful #gallery #femaleempowerment

Architecture in Spain! Such a fun week learning about history and enjoying the best vegetarian food around! #Spain #Sevilla #Cadiz #cádiz #españa #architecture #adventura #adventure

Having so much fun with the flowers in Spain! #cadiz #playa #flores #acuarela #beach #flowers #watercolor

What a phenomenal group of ladies (and gentlemen, not pictured) to spend the evening with at the She:DC gallery! It was so special to be a part of this DC moment and to bring together so many inspiring women! Thank you! #shedc #shopmadeindc #womensupportwomen #womenshistorymonth #internationalwomensday #galleryopening #inspiration

The last few months have been…crazy. My usual rule of, “no oil painting in this tiny apartment” has officially been replaced with, “fuck it, I need to paint”. I’m happy to say that my painting, “Women Supporting Women” has been accepted to this year’s She:DC Art show! Come hang out with us at the sip&shop fundraiser! (Info below) About this painting: since starting my work with the Department Of Energy, I have been so fortunate to come across incredible, bad ass women we’ve gone out of their way to lift me up in my personal and professional development. I am eternally grateful for their support, wisdom, and guidance. I feel very fortunate to have been supported by strong, incredible women throughout my life. This piece speaks to that gratitude, and to the importance of passing it on. SHE NIGHT OUT: SIP+SHOP FUNDRAISER LOCATION: SMIDC Georgetown - 1304 Wisconsin Ave NW Washington D.C. DATE AND TIME: Thursday March 6th 5pm-8pm COST: $30 donation, includes 15% discount storewide, cocktails + cake and a SHE:DC Tote filled with goods from women makers Link to tickets in my bio! #she:dc #shedc #madeindc #women #girlpower #oilpaint #gallery #passiton #fed

Been doing lots of art for myself lately— here are some studies for a larger painting! #charcoal #study #goldenrod

So happy for Hannah and Lukas! Of course, very talented Hannah did her own hair and makeup, so I had to capture the moment! I love you so much, @hipposandmangos 💍✨ #watercolor #coloredpencil #happilyeverafter #earlymountainvineyards

Arecibo, Puerto Rico #acuarela #puertorico #arecibo #cactu #watercolor #100

Now summer can start! After much searching for the perfect travel watercolor setup… @lisazahren gave me the perfect thing for my birthday! Thank you, Lisa!!! 💛 Now to paint the Chicago skyline #chicago #watercolor #travel #mini #acuarela #summer

Happy Graduation @evnclvs

I’m sure there are other ways to use AI… this is my favorite so far. #aicactus #creative #bookillustration #cactus #ai

Every day we are faced with decisions. They come at us from all angles: work, family, community. Great people do great things one little decision at a time. This painting encapsulates the process of channeling divine inner light to use those decisions as a chance to share that light. Be the sun. Together we can make the world a better place— and when our positivity goes out into the world, what comes back to us is a little bit better. #sun #acrylic #painting #darma #karma #landscape

Impending totality #watercolor #watercolorpencils #eclipse #totality #burlington #vermont

Making a big painting… but here’s a small detail 😄 #texture

Houseplants in a north-facing window. This has been a nice little weekend study of light and color. Painted with oil paint and a pallet knife— no brushes. #oilpainting #oil #oilpaint #houseplant #houseplantsofinstagram #texture #paletteknifepainting #paletteknife #color #light

More watercolor pencils! 🟡🔴🔵 #watercolorpencils #sketch #sunflower

Playing with watercolor pencils #travel #acuarela #watercolor

Watercolor from bed 🛌 — inspired by my #georgiaokeeffe playing cards. #watercolor #houseplant #purple #acuarela #pintura

Playing with my new travel watercolors— snowy day, 10 min sketch. Happy MLK day! #watercolor #stilllife #mlkday #snow #acuarela

Travel watercolors 😍 #dcmetro #5minpainting #watercolor #acuarela

Happy Thanksgiving! This is a picture of the progression of a painting I’m working on— the piece centers around my gratitude for the women in my life who intentionally uplift other women. It’s final form will look Nothing like this, but enjoying the process! #thankful

Trying out #collage with old #sierraclub and #williamandmary alumni magazines. Another “who am I” piece. #planet #magazine #art

Burlington,VT #watercolor #acuarela #vermont #fallcolors

Summer 💛#sunset #goldenhour #landscape #watercolor #acuarela #enpleinair

Beach in Barcelona ☀️ #beach #summer #barcelona #watercolor #acuarela #family #mediterranean #mediterraneansea #enpleinair #painting

#sagradafamilia #gaudi #light #watercolor #acuarela #color #space

Park Güell in Barcelona has such a beautiful combination of structure, nature, light, and space! #watercolor #barcelona #gaudi #parkguell #catalunya

Stretching Canvas! #sisters #canvas #paintingprep #paint #gesso #spring

Early Spring on the 9th hole… #framed #spring #gold #golf #backyardgolf #oilpaint #enpleinair #enpleinairpainting

Public speaking is not my forte, but this one came from the heart. Thank you to everyone who helped make this mural possible. From friends keeping me company during late nights to advocates who encouraged the project at every stage— thank you! ¡Se lo agradezco mucho! See @emma.anne.art for pictures and videos of the making-of this piece! https://www.dailypress.com/virginiagazette/va-vg-silver-hand-meadery-mural-20220819-ij7p5kxvizcijp26nlrr6gi33u-story.html #mural #pollinators #painting #savethebees #publicart #williamsburgva @luximinajewels

Saturday August 20 @ noon…. Come by the @silverhandmeadery to celebrate Williamsburg’s FIRST PUBLIC MURAL!!! It has been so much fun making this ~270 sq. ft. painting. It’s title is “Flight of the Honeybee, circa. 1622”. Imagine you are the first European Honeybee to fly around Jamestown/Williamsburg in 1622. These are the plants and pollinators you might see. Not only is this mural a window to the past, but it’s also a vision of a hopeful future— where we can reclaim our ecosystem with native pollinator plants. Thanks so much to everyone who helped make this dream come true! https://fb.me/e/1Vi4BT3s5 #mural #pollinators #thegoodlife #sustainability #publicart #climatecommunication #wallart #paint #painting #outdoors #bees #savethebees #summer #celebrate #actlocal #thinkglobalactlocal #williamsburg #williamsburgva #virginia #vdot #VA #pollinator #teacher #muralist #garden #plants #butterfly #butterflies #monarch #chickory

Yellow on everything!!! 💛 #nightpainting #yellow #mural #ghostmice #pollinators #bees #savethebees #flower

Spoke N Art ft. My smoothie #acrylic #vangogh #vangoghinspired #impressionism #summer #enpleinair #painting #paint #W&M #clinicalfaculty #sketch

Almost done! #mural #pollinators #nightpainting #happyplace

Insightful trip to Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay today. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/09/02/tangier-island-virginia-congress-funding/ #vga #tangier #watercolor #enpleinair #sketch #chesapeake

Palette knife painting @spokeartprovisions #enpleinair #enpleinairpainting #june #heatwaves #timelapse #timelapsepainting

At Spoke and Art this morning! Come say hi and check out the gallery!! #spokenart #williamsburg #williamsburgva #juneteenth #localart

Flowers and motion! #eukalyptus #babysbreath #hydrangea #baile #dance #wedding #love #amor

Plying with texture and glazes #pottery #ceramics #texture #glaze #shino #pastabowl @luximinajewels

Stop by on Saturday!!! #artshow #spokeandart #gallery #oilpaint #williamsburg

It’s a good day to sip on a #margarita. #watercolor #acuarela #lavender #mead

*attempting* to follow Chromatek watercolor pen tutorials soaking in the sun on the Atlantic coast #chromatek #watercolor #watercolorpens #beach #spring #bestday

#teacherappreciationweek I appreciate these ladies! Thanks for keeping me company at the mural! #milkweed #teacherappreciation #happyteacherappreciation #justaddtequila #wtfismarcopolo #mural #projector #photoshop

Details of texture for the mural! #saturday #saturdaypainting #mural #pollinators #texture #painting #paint #outside #spring #flowers

Is there a better way to spend a Saturday? Oh yeah, listening to good music! Can’t wait till 4pm to hear the talented @jesspencer3 tear it up on the violin! #mural #pollinators #violin #music #Saturday #spring

Second Sunday was a blast! I painted families, couples, and sisters into the Williamsburg street scene. What a cool way to connect with people. Best way to get sunburned, for sure. #secondsunday #williamsburg #painting #enpleinair #sunburn #streetart

This one goes out to @hipposandmangos — The soccer mom of the arts! Yeti Tumblr not included. #soccermom #flipflops #mural #thankyou #support #pollinators #yeti #painting

Hello again, Pumpkin Swamp Rd! Got to do a few studies of the black dirt region on this beautiful spring day 🐥 #blackdirt #oil #oilpainting #enpleinair #painting #spring #april #blackandyellow #farm #happy

Throwback to 2016 when I painted my first mural in Havana, Cuba! I aacquired the paint and supplies through shady, slang-filled, back-alley deals. These pictures are from the second to last day, when the kids of the Pocitos neighborhood came out to leave their mark. This design was inspired by Santeria, showing a colorful, bright version of reality. The colors represent childhood and innocence. The meaning was tied together as the children picked up brushes to paint their own versions of a beautiful world. #mural #muralist #cuba #havana #pocitos #community #santeria #niñez

Destroying crayons with @maddydru at the Van Gogh exhibit in Washington, DC. What a life, if you haven’t been— go! We highly recommend the VR experience and the extended coloring time 😄 #crayons #vangogh #vangoghart #color #texture #painting #exhibit

This drawing has always really intrigued me. #foreshortening #selfportrait #twisting #charcoal #oldsketchbook #sketch #figure #foot #2minutesketch

Sunset ocean painting in the OBX 💛 Bye, summer, thanks for sticking around so long #acrylic #enpleinair #obx #fall #beach #sunset #pizza #sunburned

Thanks you to my lovely @tboss218 for commissioning a painting of Air🔹and🔹Water. And thanks to amazing friends who put up with my incessant painting 😅🥰 #elements #air #water #friends #enpleinair #acrylic #chicago #63rd #reggiesbar #commission

Grant Park Orchestra ft. @rukminibhugra this was sketched during the amazing singing of Memory from Cats by @mamieparrisofficial and painted during an incredible performance of Defying Gravity. It’s unfinished, but it sold anyway! Thanks, lovers of the artistic process! #chicago #milleniumpark #grantpark #concert #broadway #classicbroadway #gouache #memory #cats #MamieParris

Happy Birthday, Abu! Thanks for inviting @evnclvs and I to the impromptu jam-session 😄 #birthday #yonkers #rushingriver #gouache #impromptu #ladygaga #leo #nightpainting #family

30 min sketch of west Yellowstone #gouache #yellowstonenationalpark #nopleinnogain #pleinair #enpleinair #montanaart #paintingoftheday #outdoorpainting #outdoorart #summer

20 min sketch of Yellowstone Lake #yellowstone #wyoming #montana #summer #gouache #nomad #electriclove #nopleinnogain #pleinair #enpleinair #montanaart #paintingoftheday #outdoorpainting #outdoorart #summer

Thanks, Suzanne and Ted, for buying my painting!! @suzannesmithcharacters #serendipity #goshen #enpleinair #thankyou #organic

Back home in Goshen, NY… it was an honor to paint the beautiful black dirt fields with talented Lee 😄 Experience made complete by a very social farmer and a roadside water bottle shower! #enpleinair #pumpkinswamprd #pineisland #goshenny #goshen #oil #acrylic #blackdirt #onions

Tortilla painting 😋 Thanks for the candid pic, DiDi! #acrylic #outdoors #tortilla #homemadetorilla #summer #artoutside #nongmo #organicmoments

“Eat Local” featuring my veggies from Dayspring Farms! Come see it in person tomorrow at Second Sunday! As always, drawing inspiration from the masters 🐉 #degas #monet #manet #eatlocal #acrylic #local #ethicallysourced #sexyvegetables #secondsunday #williamsburgva

I miss the ocean already. #sea #acrylic #paintdrip #gravity #wet #landscape

Playing around with forms inspired by #jewelry I’ve interacted with recently — definitely out of my comfort zone using #acrylics and painting #abstractly 😂 do you see your pendant, @mantawave ?

Charlie flying the kite we affectionately named “Myrphy”. We’ve decided Murphy speaks in a muppet voice and is a bit neurotic. #gouache #obx #ducknc #kite #beach #sand #legpainting

Ocean gouache and the woman who got me into watercolor/gouache. Something so fun using her paints/brushes. I love my gramma 💛 #family #grandma #watercolor #gouache #obx #ducknc #oceanpainting

Nina deep in thought ft. her sunburn @ninacalves #obx #ducknc #gouache #sister #abstraction #colors #beachpainting #outdoors

Outer Banks 2021 (hopefully part 1 of several) —Gouache on the beach! Thanks to my brave family members who have volunteered to be my models! #gouache #colors #abstraction #meditation #corona #beach #obx #duck #ducknc #colores #playa #acuarela

So much depends On a white pickup truck Covered in sunshine Besides the crepe myrtle. Another Second Sunday gouache painting ☺️ #gouache #enpleinair #williamscarloswilliams #redwheelbarrow #poetry #williamsburg #williamsburgva #pickuptruck

Second Sunday was a blast! I painted this during the event and it sold within a few minutes of being done 😄 #crayons #gouache #gouachepainting #secondsunday #williamsburgva #enpleinair

This is one of the first times I’ve showed my art in public… what a thrill! I decided that I made my art to start a conversation, so I should show it instead of letting it sit in my garage. Come by and say “hi” at Second Sunday if you’re local! #williamsburgva #secondsunday #artshow

Shadows 😍 making some nut bowls because hand thrown pots are the best gifts 😁 #pottery #nut #nutbowl #flower #pot #rim #handthrown #center #🌼

My first wood burning project... thanks for the suggestion, @cidmendez 💛 looking forward to more unforgiving, smoke-filled experiences! 🪵 🔥 #mandala #woodburning #vanillabean #vine #furniture #diyfurniture #diy #woodstain

It feels so good to throw after over a year! #fullyvaccinated #backinthestudio #bowl #clay #getmyhandsdirty

Still a work in progress... Spring time at the Lake Murky Country Club is coming along. Thank you to the Back Yard Golf Association for letting me paint the view from hole 9! #🏌️‍♀️ #oilpainting #paletteknifepainting #paletteknife #enpleinair #enpleinairpainting

“Portrait of a Forest Shadow” #colonialparkway #bikinipainting #oilpaint #spring

Dreaming of the next glaze combinations... we’ve been having so much fun making colors drip together (something I’ve always been afraid of trying with shino glazes) #glaze #pottery #tiles #quarentineart #spring