As an emerging independent creative professional with over 10 years demonstrated history as a visual communications designer, art director, and marketing & communications professional in the higher education industry, I am driven to use my knowledge of design and branding for the support and promotion of independent businesses, creative entrepreneurs & artists, educational & cultural institutions, and non-profit or cause-related organizations.

When not focused on design projects, I can usually be found nurturing and expressing my more artistic side in the painting and ceramics studio, or curating my growing collection of random artifacts found while filling the creative well with nature, culture, and history from various travels, arranging them in conversation with sculpted objects to reveal a visual narrative.

Especially interested in the creative process, and the development of the creative mind and psyche over time, I merge art making and design processes/practices while exploring the intersection of art & design as a hands-on experience, inviting play, experimentation, and discovery to an otherwise controlled and disciplined design process.

And when Oklahoma weather permits, I spend as much time possible outside riding a bike, roller skating, or playing in my home garden while hosting pollinators and developing a reliable waystation for Monarch butterflies.

Miranda Sowell
BFA, Visual Communication, University of Oklahoma