Overall, a big transitional year. Following a slow 2024, it felt great that work picked up right away and kept me surprisingly busy straight through the fall. I’m so thankful to have made some quality time spent with my parents, sister, and brother in law on an amazing spring trip to Amsterdam. In July, my wife Jessica and I went to Barcelona and Ibiza for her 40th birthday. My sister gave birth to her son Emerson in August— yes, I’m now an Uncle Craig!
The year kicked off with some Portland Winter Light Festival opening night projections, and a new Light Capsule on the Blitz-Weinhard Brewery Blocks.
Our pals at Kamp Grizzly kept us busy this year, bringing us on for a handful of projection projects for adidas that took us to SF, Boston, Nebraska, and Texas. One in particular, I was able to bring a dream of mine to life, a 4-sided holoscrim activation at NBA All Star Weekend.
This year I also got way more into cycling, which has felt like a great outlet and benefit to my mental health. I biked the Portland Bridge Pedal, and Ride The Rim, a full lap around breathtaking Crater Lake, and hope to do a century ride next year.
I spoke at Creative Mornings PDX about the theme Nomad! I’ve been attending these events for 10 years, ever since just before my Adobe Creative Residency in 2016, and it was such a proud moment for myself to look back on many years of creative ambition, carving my own path, making annual maps, and figuratively mapping out how all of my projects track back to one passion project: Projecting West. Watch it here!
Photo by Christie Goshe
My alma mater, Champlain College, invited me to do an artist residency, which was a delightful 5-week sprint, engaging with students and guiding them to create an immersive exhibition they’d be excited about. We ended up calling it Aeroscape: The Promise of Frutiger Aero, which focused on an early 2000’s aesthetic of all things vibrant green, shiny bubbles, and hopeful futurism, but contained an undercurrent corporate-driven nightmare message. It was a thrill to come back to my college and teach, as well as give a talk with Champlain’s President Hernandez at Alumni Weekend.
Looking forward to 2026, I have a lot of things to be excited about. We’re rapidly making progress on finishing our basement, which will give us a big living room, a lounge/wet bar, laundry room, and big new studio space for myself as we shift the house around. Work wise, this year is looking like a strong one. We have multiple projections in the Evel Knievel Museum Las Vegas opening this spring, new Light Capsules installations brewing for the Route 66 Centennial, and we’re leading the creation of a new permanent immersive exhibit in Indiana at the Vigo County History Center in Terre Haute that’s set to launch early 2027.
I write this annual recap from NYC where I’ve been traveling to recently, working as a projection director on the Survivor 50 Premiere in Feb at the Hall des Lumières. Their location in Paris, Atelier des Lumières, debuted around the time I launched ‘Brilliant!’ and felt like such a monumental inspiration to me as I saw it as affirmation in my creative efforts toward immersive work. It feels so gratifying to now be composing a huge experience across their incredible historical bank canvas. I can’t wait to share more on this one.
Photo by Christie Goshe
These days spent in NYC felt extra special to me, looking back on all the times I visited, a place that has been a catalyst of encouragement to keep moving forward through the uncertainty of my ambitious 20’s. Now in this moment, I suddenly find myself 37, pretty dang proud of what I’ve accomplished over the years. A bookend as I stand on the threshold of transformative new life chapters.
In 2025, Jessica and I started down the path of IVF which has been a humbling scientific process that has challenged us to relieve any sense of control, and has ultimately brought us closer together. We’ve always said if this process works, or if it doesn’t, we’ll be happy with the outcome. That’s also a difficult place to be, feeling stuck in limbo between two very different futures. The key is staying positive and making the most of all the surprises that come along the way.
One thing is for sure: 2026 is going to be a year of ends and beginnings, which I’ll navigate with confidence in my growth.
—Craig
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