You can call me Dusty. I’m the artist behind Dangerdust.

Please don’t try to find me. But if you do, I’ll probably be with my stripy work assistant in my home studio in Charlotte, North Carolina, where I also happen to hail from. Dangerdust began back in college, when I developed a habit of sneaking into an empty campus at night to leave inspirational quotes and images on a chalkboard (see origin story below). More than a decade later, it’s grown into a place where I get to combine my love of graphic design with my love of good old-fashioned hands-on creating.

Whether it’s drawing with pencil or chalk, painting with watercolor, gouache, or oil paint, carving a block to print, cutting paper into collage, or designing a new mobile, making things has always been innate to me. Capturing the small moments and savoring them has become my gratitude practice. It’s how I show and share love and appreciation.

I’m also a long-time bullet journaler, an avid tea drinker, a pretty okay singer and uke player (I wrote two songs for my niece), a lover of home improvement projects and organizing chaos, a habitual “I can fix that and don’t need to throw it away” sewer, a forever-improving yogi, a nature lover and respector, and my nieces’ biggest fan.

I hope my ever-evolving work is a soft place to land and spread joy. I feel so grateful I get to do this for a living. Thank you so much for being here!