I’m Spence. I design, I draw, I write, I dad, I drum.
Designing and drawing out of my Baltimore studio, I have 20 years of experience with projects large and small. Organizations I’ve worked with include The Baltimore Museum of Art, Johns Hopkins University Press, the Maryland Film Festival, Open Works, and University of Maryland. My work has been published in the books DIY: Design it Yourself and Graphic Design: The New Basics, and in Print magazine.
I’ve been a part of the annual design student portfolio reviews at Stevenson University School of Design, Arts, and Communication since 2021, and taught software workshops at Open Works.
In fall 2025, I was in residence at Catwalk in the Hudson Valley, New York, working on Wish I were there, wish I were here, a dialogue of drawings on postcards. I also had two works published in the August 2025 issue of The Light Ekphrastic.
I draw with pens and pencils, and with scissors and X-acto knives. Some pieces are for clients, some are meditative and personal, others are gifts or experiments. Many drawings use plants as a way to explore physical and internal space. Flowers stand as memories and change agents - the images informed but not defined by years of traumas - and as maps of the past to get to the future.
Instagram has more, and I also play drums in the popular band Father of the Year.
