Visual Narrative Showcase

Visual Narrative Showcase

Visual Narrative Showcase

I create visual stories that transform and heal, blending my expertise in relational-cultural trauma-informed art therapy, graphic design, studio art, and illustration.

My work empowers individuals and brands to embrace their full story, turning moments in the crucible into wisdom and silence into vibrant expression.

Discover how I can help you step into your unique power with purpose and authenticity.

Photo of a framed poster advertising the Making Waves Therapeutic Community Songwriting Series, over a piano with sheet music on it, with a guitar next to it and on top of teal patterned wallpaper. Painting by artist Allison Heistand of a siren/mermaid rising from a raging ocean tide, singing and playing guitar against a full moon; rendered in cyan and blue watercolor and ink.

Making Waves

Amplifying the Liberation of Song
Event Visual Identity
Photo of a framed poster advertising the Making Waves Therapeutic Community Songwriting Series, over a piano with sheet music on it, with a guitar next to it and on top of teal patterned wallpaper. Painting by artist Allison Heistand of a siren/mermaid rising from a raging ocean tide, singing and playing guitar against a full moon; rendered in cyan and blue watercolor and ink.

Making Waves

Amplifying the Liberation of Song
Event Visual Identity
Photo of a framed poster advertising the Making Waves Therapeutic Community Songwriting Series, over a piano with sheet music on it, with a guitar next to it and on top of teal patterned wallpaper. Painting by artist Allison Heistand of a siren/mermaid rising from a raging ocean tide, singing and playing guitar against a full moon; rendered in cyan and blue watercolor and ink.

Making Waves

Amplifying the Liberation of Song
Event Visual Identity
Photo of a framed poster advertising the Making Waves Therapeutic Community Songwriting Series, over a piano with sheet music on it, with a guitar next to it and on top of teal patterned wallpaper. Painting by artist Allison Heistand of a siren/mermaid rising from a raging ocean tide, singing and playing guitar against a full moon; rendered in cyan and blue watercolor and ink.

Making Waves

Amplifying the Liberation of Song
Event Visual Identity
Photo of a night scene in front of a movie theater marquee reading "Women + Film Festival" which is lit up; beside it is a framed poster reading "Women+Film Festival", rendered in purples and orange watercolor textures, with a glowing orange home on a purple hill, a woman's silhouette in the window, and from the chimney there is "smoke" made up out of journal pages, flowers, and film strips. Art and design by Allison Heistand.

Women+Film Festival 2024

Kindling the Sacred Hearth of Women's Art
Visual Brand Identity
Photo of a night scene in front of a movie theater marquee reading "Women + Film Festival" which is lit up; beside it is a framed poster reading "Women+Film Festival", rendered in purples and orange watercolor textures, with a glowing orange home on a purple hill, a woman's silhouette in the window, and from the chimney there is "smoke" made up out of journal pages, flowers, and film strips. Art and design by Allison Heistand.

Women+Film Festival 2024

Kindling the Sacred Hearth of Women's Art
Visual Brand Identity
Photo of a night scene in front of a movie theater marquee reading "Women + Film Festival" which is lit up; beside it is a framed poster reading "Women+Film Festival", rendered in purples and orange watercolor textures, with a glowing orange home on a purple hill, a woman's silhouette in the window, and from the chimney there is "smoke" made up out of journal pages, flowers, and film strips. Art and design by Allison Heistand.

Women+Film Festival 2024

Kindling the Sacred Hearth of Women's Art
Visual Brand Identity
Photo of a night scene in front of a movie theater marquee reading "Women + Film Festival" which is lit up; beside it is a framed poster reading "Women+Film Festival", rendered in purples and orange watercolor textures, with a glowing orange home on a purple hill, a woman's silhouette in the window, and from the chimney there is "smoke" made up out of journal pages, flowers, and film strips. Art and design by Allison Heistand.

Women+Film Festival 2024

Kindling the Sacred Hearth of Women's Art
Visual Brand Identity

Empire Gardens

Nourishing Seeds of Food Sovereignty
Visual Brand Identity

Empire Gardens

Nourishing Seeds of Food Sovereignty
Visual Brand Identity

Empire Gardens

Nourishing Seeds of Food Sovereignty
Visual Brand Identity

Empire Gardens

Nourishing Seeds of Food Sovereignty
Visual Brand Identity

Colorado Dragon Boat Film Festival 2024

Connecting through the Frames
Visual Brand Identity

Colorado Dragon Boat Film Festival 2024

Connecting through the Frames
Visual Brand Identity

Colorado Dragon Boat Film Festival 2024

Connecting through the Frames
Visual Brand Identity

Colorado Dragon Boat Film Festival 2024

Connecting through the Frames
Visual Brand Identity
Photo of a colorful living room with an orange couch, a vase of flowers on the coffee table, and a lava lamp; above the sofa are three framed art prints by artist Allison Heistand. Left to right: The first is depicting an ornamental golden frame with honeysuckle artwork and "Aries" written on a red background with a window with a blue-haired woman with ram horns inside it. The second one is depicting an ornamental golden frame on a yellow background with a window looking onto twins with purple hair and lavender flowers in their looking at each other; Gemini is written on it. The third one is dark blue with a silver ornamental border creating a window with a woman with teal hair with coral in her hair and pearls and a crab as a crown; white roses adorn the frame and it reads “Cancer”.

The Art Nouveau Zodiac

Awakening Astral Archetypes
Art Prints
Photo of a colorful living room with an orange couch, a vase of flowers on the coffee table, and a lava lamp; above the sofa are three framed art prints by artist Allison Heistand. Left to right: The first is depicting an ornamental golden frame with honeysuckle artwork and "Aries" written on a red background with a window with a blue-haired woman with ram horns inside it. The second one is depicting an ornamental golden frame on a yellow background with a window looking onto twins with purple hair and lavender flowers in their looking at each other; Gemini is written on it. The third one is dark blue with a silver ornamental border creating a window with a woman with teal hair with coral in her hair and pearls and a crab as a crown; white roses adorn the frame and it reads “Cancer”.

The Art Nouveau Zodiac

Awakening Astral Archetypes
Art Prints
Photo of a colorful living room with an orange couch, a vase of flowers on the coffee table, and a lava lamp; above the sofa are three framed art prints by artist Allison Heistand. Left to right: The first is depicting an ornamental golden frame with honeysuckle artwork and "Aries" written on a red background with a window with a blue-haired woman with ram horns inside it. The second one is depicting an ornamental golden frame on a yellow background with a window looking onto twins with purple hair and lavender flowers in their looking at each other; Gemini is written on it. The third one is dark blue with a silver ornamental border creating a window with a woman with teal hair with coral in her hair and pearls and a crab as a crown; white roses adorn the frame and it reads “Cancer”.

The Art Nouveau Zodiac

Awakening Astral Archetypes
Art Prints
Photo of a colorful living room with an orange couch, a vase of flowers on the coffee table, and a lava lamp; above the sofa are three framed art prints by artist Allison Heistand. Left to right: The first is depicting an ornamental golden frame with honeysuckle artwork and "Aries" written on a red background with a window with a blue-haired woman with ram horns inside it. The second one is depicting an ornamental golden frame on a yellow background with a window looking onto twins with purple hair and lavender flowers in their looking at each other; Gemini is written on it. The third one is dark blue with a silver ornamental border creating a window with a woman with teal hair with coral in her hair and pearls and a crab as a crown; white roses adorn the frame and it reads “Cancer”.

The Art Nouveau Zodiac

Awakening Astral Archetypes
Art Prints
GIF depicting a living room scene: purple mountain mural on wall behind a wooden TV console with a lamp and plants around; on the TV plays a GIF of a blue, red, and purple graphic reading "Women + Film Festival", it scrolls and reveals a woman in profile behind a movie camera with an embroidered textural quality to the graphics.

Women+Film Festival 2023

Stitching Stories of Women's Resistance
Visual Brand Identity
GIF depicting a living room scene: purple mountain mural on wall behind a wooden TV console with a lamp and plants around; on the TV plays a GIF of a blue, red, and purple graphic reading "Women + Film Festival", it scrolls and reveals a woman in profile behind a movie camera with an embroidered textural quality to the graphics.

Women+Film Festival 2023

Stitching Stories of Women's Resistance
Visual Brand Identity
GIF depicting a living room scene: purple mountain mural on wall behind a wooden TV console with a lamp and plants around; on the TV plays a GIF of a blue, red, and purple graphic reading "Women + Film Festival", it scrolls and reveals a woman in profile behind a movie camera with an embroidered textural quality to the graphics.

Women+Film Festival 2023

Stitching Stories of Women's Resistance
Visual Brand Identity
GIF depicting a living room scene: purple mountain mural on wall behind a wooden TV console with a lamp and plants around; on the TV plays a GIF of a blue, red, and purple graphic reading "Women + Film Festival", it scrolls and reveals a woman in profile behind a movie camera with an embroidered textural quality to the graphics.

Women+Film Festival 2023

Stitching Stories of Women's Resistance
Visual Brand Identity
Photo of a pink brick wall with Pride flags hanging above; four posters are wheat-pasted to the wall, each depicting an underwater movie theater scene in tropical colors such as teal, pink, orange, and purple, reads “CinemaQ” in a groovy 70s font; design by Allison Heistand.

CinemaQ Film Festival

Celebrating the Radiant Sunlight of Queer Joy
Visual Brand Identity
Photo of a pink brick wall with Pride flags hanging above; four posters are wheat-pasted to the wall, each depicting an underwater movie theater scene in tropical colors such as teal, pink, orange, and purple, reads “CinemaQ” in a groovy 70s font; design by Allison Heistand.

CinemaQ Film Festival

Celebrating the Radiant Sunlight of Queer Joy
Visual Brand Identity
Photo of a pink brick wall with Pride flags hanging above; four posters are wheat-pasted to the wall, each depicting an underwater movie theater scene in tropical colors such as teal, pink, orange, and purple, reads “CinemaQ” in a groovy 70s font; design by Allison Heistand.

CinemaQ Film Festival

Celebrating the Radiant Sunlight of Queer Joy
Visual Brand Identity
Photo of a pink brick wall with Pride flags hanging above; four posters are wheat-pasted to the wall, each depicting an underwater movie theater scene in tropical colors such as teal, pink, orange, and purple, reads “CinemaQ” in a groovy 70s font; design by Allison Heistand.

CinemaQ Film Festival

Celebrating the Radiant Sunlight of Queer Joy
Visual Brand Identity
Mockup of watercolor painting of a blue lotus (by artist Allison Heistand) in a wooden frame against light blue wall, with singing bowls, meditation cushions, incense burning, red meditation cushions, and rolled up green yoga mats around it.

Blue Lotus

Invoking Inner Illumination
Art
Mockup of watercolor painting of a blue lotus (by artist Allison Heistand) in a wooden frame against light blue wall, with singing bowls, meditation cushions, incense burning, red meditation cushions, and rolled up green yoga mats around it.

Blue Lotus

Invoking Inner Illumination
Art
Mockup of watercolor painting of a blue lotus (by artist Allison Heistand) in a wooden frame against light blue wall, with singing bowls, meditation cushions, incense burning, red meditation cushions, and rolled up green yoga mats around it.

Blue Lotus

Invoking Inner Illumination
Art
Mockup of watercolor painting of a blue lotus (by artist Allison Heistand) in a wooden frame against light blue wall, with singing bowls, meditation cushions, incense burning, red meditation cushions, and rolled up green yoga mats around it.

Blue Lotus

Invoking Inner Illumination
Art