Hey Friends, 

I hope you have been having a good summer and staying cool wherever you are. 

As usual it’s been a wild adventure and in a surprising turn of events I got hired for a new gig and get to keep my studio space at the Journal Building Artist Residency as a result of that which is really exciting for me. Since that turn of events was a surprise, I did my best with the help of some awesome friends (thank you, thank you, thank you!) in SF to get moved into a new studio space before heading to Texas to spend early July with my parents and celebrate life with them. 

Coquito Games who I do Production and Community work with, are playtesting a new project Where the Chips Fall and if you want to playtest our blackjack inspired roguelike you can join the discord or check it out on Itch.io.

I had the opportunity to head back to London to visit friends (new and old) and check out some of the shows and museums there this time. Here’s a cheesy tourism photo:

I found some really inspiring crystals and natural formations with a friend as my guide through her favorite museum, the Natural History Museum. Even the building itself is so cool, and the collection is beautifully curated and displayed. Here’s some photos: 

I also got the chance to spend the day at the Tate Modern Art Museum that has come highly recommended to me. It was great to wander around the place and really take everything they were presenting at my own pace. Here’s some photos:

The Virtual Exchange program with the IGDA Foundation has kicked off again and we are welcoming a new batch of awesome global game developers to the community. This program has taught me so much about playing and community.

Staying with the Journal Building Means I will be participating in the Art Span SF Open Studios event in the fall and the JB is Weekend 3 October 4th and 5th. I hope to see you there if you’re in the bay area! 

Oh, also I got my inventory sorted out so no matter where I am I can hook you up with cute art stickers or if you want to support my studio work and get happy mail monthly you can join the new Post Card BFF Club.  

Peace and love, 

Kenna

Still in the bay area till the end of June right now and wrapping up project work here with the Journal Building ArtSpan Artist Residency. I’m also really excited about the new Grateful Dead anniversary celebration that will kick off in the Haight this summer Haight Street Daydream. 

 

I have a new body of work that is cooking in my studio as I power through blanks and try to focus on my solo work during this era of my life. I don’t want to ship any blanks back so now is the time to get at my commissions if you have wanted one! 

 

I have also started working on some solo developer interactive fiction projects which I may choose to share broadly at some point but right now if you are interested in playtesting my dark little stories please reach out about it.

 

I got to catch my first ever Mask Monday show at Standard Deviant Brewery which was such a fun event to check out, and it’s free to attend so look for that awesome works in progress event. Those kinds of shows are always where you can see someone doing an amazing act before they really make the big time. 

 

Next up is my bigger Texas adventure where I check in with family and old friends, make as much art as I can and try to find the most delicious pecan pie in Texas, among other things. As I go into this chapter I find myself extremely grateful for the teachers and mentors I have had, particularly in Clown Conservatory. The work of becoming a clown was the best thing I could have done to learn how to hold onto hope and a light soul even in the darkness of health challenges and our own human mortality. 

 

I will be back in California soon because the fresh bay air is good for my soul.

 

Kenna, Matt, and Jeff in front of Kenna and Jeff’s work at Superfine San Francisco 2025.

I had an amazing time at Superfine San Francisco! Thanks to everyone who came out, and those of you who sent me sweet messages from far away or from being sick on your couch I loved them all. When the going gets tough your kindness keeps me going. I’m not crying you’re crying.
<3 <3 <3

Jeff Bostic my incredible studio mate, artist, DJ, educator and more was a dream to work with on this project and I couldn’t have done it without his help. Thank you for being my team mate, man! Also thank you to ArtSpanSF and the Superfine team!

Kenna and Jeff in front of Kenna’s work Rainbow Baptism at Superfine SF 2025.

SAVE THE DATE 
Journal Building Artist Residency invites you to:

Spring Art Bazaar and Space Party

ART!
PARTY!
SPACE!
FUN!

Saturday May 3rd
11 pm – 4 pm ish

1540 Market Street
San Francisco, CA

RSVP HERE
(or just show up but this tells us how many drinks to get)

If you missed Superfine and want to check out my Instagram there are some fun highlights posted there.

If you couldn’t make it, for real, please either write me back so we can get coffee or something soon, or schedule a virtual studio visit and chat here.

If you are having window shoppers remorse and wish you had an original artwork, print or sticker you can get one in the mail from my shop! If you don’t see what you were looking for write to me about it, I might have them or be able to order one for you.

 

Here’s some of my favorite moments from the fair:

• Saw so many old friends from my life in the circus and beyond
• A young persons mom asked if their kid could take a picture with me for their memory book.
• I made so many new friends who love bright colors and mail as much as I do.

all the love I got to drop in the mail after super fine weekend.

Other places to find my work:

• Ethereal – Counter Pulse Theater, San Francisco. Till April 28th 2025
• Haight Street Voice – Local Merchants and Business Column
• Game Developers Conference Speaker 2025
• Sign up to playtest my interactive work.
• Your Shop or Resturant? Contact me for more info.

Kenna’s studio mates Cody and Jan at the Counter Pulse Theater Gala with our group show Ethereal.

Hi Friends!! 

This weekend I am going to be showing at Super Fine Art Fair!!!

March 6–9 Gateway Pavilion, Pier 2
Fort Mason, San Francisco

Since getting back into town I’ve been hard at work in the studio getting everything ready for my first art fair!

You can grab tickets if you want to come for 30% off with code ARTIST30 on the ticket page.

AND
I just got a fresh order of stickers including holographic stickers that look so beautiful. I’m obsessed with them. If you aren’t in SF but want to snag a sticker you can check out my shop page or DM me on any platform about the new holographic stickers.

I hope I get to see you!
<3 <3
Kenna

P.S.

I am also gonna be at GDC later this month if you will be there let me know so we can grab a coffee or boba! If you’re interested in playtesting the things I am working on you can tell me here. 

When you go back there

Remember to breath in

Deep

Fresh

Air

 

Coming from the

Healthy

Strong

Trees

 

The trees are bigger now.

When you ambulate

Through those spaces

Be sure to

Notice the

Big

Thick

Roots

 

Since you were here last

Sinking deep

Sucking down

 

Nutrient hungry

Tendrils

 

The trees are bigger now.

Look up

At those

 

Stout

Long

Branches

 

Each with many fingers

Long enough to caress.

Your shoulders

And

The sky

 

Watch the clouds float by

And

Listen

To the leaves

Sing.

 

Sometimes things die.

To

Become

Something new.

 

Be sure to notice how,

The trees are bigger now.

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Original Poem by Kenna M. Lindsay 2023

I really am still amazed that I went to GDC. Me.

We don’t have to unpack everything behind why I feel that way, but it is safe to say it was an incredible experience full of old doors closing and new ones opening.

 

I met a lot of really fun people and worked on a team again during the IGDA Foundation training sessions in preparation for next year’s GDC event and Virtual Exchange Program. I have missed having a consistent team a lot as I have been doing consulting work solo for a while now.

 

I am so grateful for the history lesson about the IGDA Foundation and the team building exercises we did. Not to mention the opportunity to stand up in front of a room and talk about the history of San Francisco. They gave me so many opportunities for growth in such a short time.

On Thursday we had a well attended alumni picnic in Yerba Beuna. It was so awesome to meet these cool people in person.

 

I Also got to meet Ricardo from Team Gainz Productions and IGDA Foundation Velociteer from 2021 in person and play our first round of “We’re not really strangers” which was absolutely a highlight of my week.

At the conference itself I went to a lot of great talks and have a long list of things to catch on the GDC vault with my discord Vault watch group (like a book club but with GDC videos) we pick a video and talk about it each week. Pictured is a great slide from Kellen Malone and Pablo Schwilden Diaz’s talk on how to release 15 skins a month without losing your mind.

 

I attended my first ever speed networking session and made a friend to play Stardew Valley with. There were so many powerful moments where I felt seen and held in ways I haven’t before or in ages.

I am left noodling on the concept of whole person time instead of just face time. Time where you feel each other in space and how that kind of experience meets different needs and objectives than what we can accomplish online.

I look forward to attending again next year and preparing to bring more of myself, more to play with, and more constructive ideas about accessibility and DEI in the industry.

If I could do something better or differently next year it would be sleep more, right?

If we traded contact information, I will reach out so soon, the week took more out of me than I expect but in the most joyous possible way.

– Kenna

Awes I am delighted to be designing props for this production with Awesome Theatre. I spent my afternoon collecting Manic Panic Jars and Deciding which Joy Division shirt is the most iconic. I hope to see you at our opening night for this essential original story. BUY TICKETS

A New Play by Claire RicenDirected by Neil Higgins

April 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, and 29

Bindlestiff Studion185, 6th St. SF

BUY TICKETS

Hey, don’t write yourself off… yet.

Awesome Theatre is thrilled to be working with Bindlestiff Studios to present a hauntingly hilarious new gothic romance / dark comedy by national treasure, Claire Rice.nnWhat would you do if you fell in love with a hot older man and were haunted by the ghost of his past lover all while working at a minimum-wage summer job at the mall? Would you let the gothic romance of it all take you down, or would you fight against fate? nnDo you have what it takes to be goth enough to handle the haunting romance, the fiery passion, and the ultimate act of rebellion? Come find out as we challenge fate and explore what happens when we dare to write ourselves off.

Featuring: Janelle Aguirre, Max Seijas, Sindey McNulty, Alex Trono, and Nikki Nutterfield

Artistic Staff: Natalie Ashodian, Erica Andracchio, Neil Higgins, Colin Johnson, Kenna Lindsay, Nikki Meñez, Anthony R. Miller, Matt Owens, Dave Ragaza, Claire Rice, Puja Tolton, Olivia Vazquez, and Kelli Westad.

y’all I’m so overjoyed to announce that I’ve moved into the Journal Building Artist Studios and despite still being in the “eat pizza on a still packed box” stage of the move I am itching to paint. These are due for an installation the artists here are collaborating on in June. Follow along to see what develops while I get to know my new art community, everyone has been awesome already. So happy and honored to be here.

I applied for the space and was accepted last fall but with the holidays, and then the flash flooding, and general unpredictable life, I was finally able to move in last week.

xoxo,

Kenna

Mama’s Sunnyside Garden (gx.games) is currently available to play in the Opera.Gx browser as that is the platform the game jam it was created for required submission to however our development team has been hard at work to bring you a free to download Window’s version on itch.io

Mama’s Sunnyside Garden was inspired by New Year – New Jam (gx.games) the new year new jam game jam theme, Relax. We decided to stay within the world of Teddy Gainz and expand the known universe of the Sunnyside Island chain.

Stop by Mama’s garden anytime to take a break from your daily grind, her love and the lo-fi are always there for you.

Please let me know if you check it out and what you think!

Developers:

Amber N. Williams – Artist

@Ambrowskii

~ Home (ambrowskii.com)

Kenna M. Lindsay – Writer and Artist

@Kenna_Lindsay

www.kennamlindsay.com

Ricardo Aviles – Gameplay Designer and Programmer

@Ricky_games20

Ricardo A – itch.io

Rika Watanabe – Writer

@riki_0ntherocks itch.io/profile/riki-0ntherocks

– Kenna

I’m looking forward to this opportunity to work as a stage manager with The Left Coast Theater Company. Getting the email from this shows producer about the recommendation they got to work with me absolutely set my year off on the right foot.

I love all of these stories, they are cute, poignant, touching. If you are local to me and looking for something to touch your little gay heart this Valentine’s season Between the Sheets is the show for you.

“After a fabulous reading at Strut in the Castro last year, we are going to be mounting a full production of the anthology “Between the Sheets.”

This anthology of 6 original short plays is about the trials and tribulations of queer sex. How hard do you have to work to bag that daddy? Is it always going to be this awkward talking to your grandma about sex, even when she’s a liberal lesbian?”

Titles and Playwrights

“44 Hours” by Chuck Ziton“Generation Sex” by Kristy Lin Billunin“I Do, Do You?” by Leland Frankeln“No Regrets” by Neil Higginsn“Not Without my Lichtenstein” by Chris Maltbyn“The Internet is a Place” by Gina Young

Get your tickets here Upcoming Performances – Left Coast Theatre Co. (lctc-sf.org)