about me

 I am a freelance artist, designer, astrologer, and voice actor. I hold a Masters of Landscape Architecture from Colorado State University and a Bachelors of Fine Arts from California College of the Arts.

The years since 2020 have shifted my focus away from traditional design spaces and academic pursuits and towards a flexible freelance space of creative, intellectual, and spiritual inquiry. While I maintain and am primarily focused on an active art making practice, both in the studio and through direct client service, I am also deeply engaged in other forms of work and service. 

My interests and influences are broad and, on the surface, seemingly disparate. They include postmodern and post-internet frames, surrealism, expressionism, animism, Gnosticism, and mythology, quantum theory, Jungian psychoanalysis, dream work, and shadow work, alchemy, ceremonial and practical magick, permaculture and biodynamic farming, food systems, urbanism, stoicism, and many others. The breadth of my current professional engagement is, in practice, that of a working artist, consulting astrologer, freelance designer, and voice actor. 

If you are interested in working with me, please visit the corresponding tab above. I look forward to hearing from you!

Cattle Creek Gardens | Master Planning and Charette Facilitation 

• Master planning, charette design, planting plans, and logo design for a 5-acre biodynamic farm on Colorado's Western Slope

The Fort Collins Urban Renewal Authority | North Fort Collins Community Engagement 

• Design and facilitation of community engagement process focused on the North College Ave. corridor in Fort Collins

Ouro Mobility | Graphic Renderings

• Graphic design of marketing materials for a car share start-up

Bike Fort Collins | Active Living Program 

• Collaborative project management for the Active Living program for community engagement in Poudre Valley Mobile Home Park and north Fort Collins

The CSU Office of the Vice President for Research | The Fort Collins EcoDistrict Initiative  

• Urban Scale Program Development & Management: Program development, grant writing, research, partner management, projects development

Colorado Health Foundation | Community Health Hub 

• Community engaged design process and CSU Honors Course in Community Design for the development of a Community Health Hub conceptual master plan for a low-income health clinic

Colorado Health Foundation | Youth Creating Places 

• Leadership of cohort of low-income youth in a free summer camp that focused on design thinking, civic engagement, and bike skills. Youth created pop-up presentations and held finale block party

City of Fort Collins, CO | Fort Collins Climate Action Plan

• Citizen’s Advisory Committee and Authorship: Co-authorship of chapters of the City of Fort Collins Climate Action Plan (Land Use & Carbon Sequestration and District Scale Sustainability)

City of Fort Collins, CO, Planning Dept. | Nature in the City Design Guidelines

• Authorship of design guidelines for the Nature in the City design application guidebook

City of Fort Collins, CO, Natural Areas Dept. | The Living Wall 

• Project Management and Design: Design and management of the first perennial outdoor green wall in Colorado

The City of Pierre, South Dakota, Dept. of Parks and Rec | Walkability Analysis and Report

• Survey, Auditing & Authorship: Contracted by the City of Pierre, South Dakota to analyze walkability and green connections for master planning recommendations

Aramark | The Garden at Coors Field

• Design and project management of the first urban garden in Major League Baseball 

Day, C.., Choi, J., Ex, L., & Dunbar, B.H. (2015). Urban Biodiversity Systems: A Literature Review. Institute for the Built Environment, Colorado State University. Fort Collins, CO.

Lammers, R. & Day, C. (2018). Urban Water Restoration: Bringing Nature Back to Cities. Institute for the Built Environment, Colorado State University. Fort Collins, CO.

Plaut, J., Day, C., Haggard, B., & Jones, D. (2019). A Story of Place: Fort Collins, CO. Institute for the Built Environment, Colorado State University. Fort Collins, CO.

Manager | Community Vitality 

Institute for the Built Environment, 2015-2019

Regenerative Practitioner

CityCraft Foundation, 2017 - Present

Sustainable Building Associate

Institute for the Built Environment, 2012 - 2014

Coordinator + Core Team Member

The Fort Collins Urban Lab, 2013 - Present

Freelance Artist and Designer, 2004 - Present

The City of Fort Collins | Planning Department, Urban Design Working Group

The City of Fort Collins | Environmental Services Department, Climate Action Plan Innovations Pilot Projects Subgroup

Larimer County Department of Health and the Environment | Built Environment Working Group 

Volunteer Arts Instructor | Compass Community Collaborative School , Fort Collins, CO