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Click here for the full Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph article (paywalled). Follow this link for details about my inspiration, my process,...

Click here for the full Laramie Boomerang article. Follow this link for details about my inspiration, my process, and the nationwide Her...

Click here for the full press release. Follow this link for details about my inspiration, my process, and the nationwide Her Flag...

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Click here for the full Public Radio story. Follow this link for details about my inspiration, my process, and the nationwide Her Flag...

36 states ratified the 19th amendment. 36 female artists designed stripes for Her Flag, a massive flag to commemorate these states. I was...

In March 2019, Richard Bright of Interalia Magazine interviewed me for the journal’s Drawing Thoughts series. Drawing Thoughts explores...

In Autumn 2017, I led a co-taught graduate seminar course called “The Art of Science Communication.” The first project we assigned to the...

Hares sketched in East Africa – this was the best I ever could do, because they didn’t stick around long enough! (© B.G.Merkle, 2016) Not...

Work in progress: illustration of a Wyoming toad (© B.G. Merkle, 2017) One of my favorite things about being an artist is getting to...

Notes from a training I did in preparation to volunteer for an amphibian monitoring citizen science project in Wyoming. These tips are...

Click image to view full newsletter. Happy summer, dear readers! I trust this finds you enjoying the weather and doing a bit of...

>Click here to subscribe!<< Click image to view newsletter. Table of Contents Sketching tip: Planning for outdoor sketching Artful...

Now more than ever, you may want a sense of calm and rootedness. Of small, simple moments of joy. Of deep connection to place. And, a...