Theo Nakagawa-Reed
Marit Engebretsen
career contact of Theodore
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2linked records
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2021–2026saved
What the account says about Marit
11 records, oldest first2021
Apr 17
2025
Feb 27
for inking: the shipwrecks one, the bird call quiz (Marit), old radio dramas
nothing w/ a plot twist
Mar 11
COLDWATER BLUFFS trail signs, from the call w/ Marit Engebretsen
9 signs for the new marsh loop, opening june 14
each sign 24 x 18 in landscape, printed on that outdoor laminate stuff, so: flat color, strong shapes, nothing that dies if it fades 20% in the sun
one main illustration per sign + 2-3 small ones. she writes the text. kids' eye level, the posts are 30" tall
the nine:
1.…
Mar 27
site visit notes, things Marit said that have to be RIGHT in the drawings
- herons nest in colonies, the rookery has ~40 nests in dead cottonwoods. they come back late march, "about when the ice goes out, they need open water to fish." saw 6 on the nests today
- heron neck is an S in flight, folded back. cranes fly w/ the neck straight out. if I draw a straight neck she will send it back
-…
Mar 30
I'm under the ice at the marsh, sitting on the bottom with the turtles. it's no…
…t cold. the light comes through green. the turtles are all facing the same way and one of them has Marit's voice and is explaining to a class how we breathe. above us something walks across the ice, two feet, slow, and I count the steps.
Apr 19
sent the nine Coldwater sketches yesterday, on the day they were due, not after…
…. Marit wrote back in an hour: "the beaver is perfect. the heron's neck is right. the wood duck is facing the wrong way for the nest box but I love him." one out of nine facing the wrong way is the best ratio of my career.
spent today on the beaver for no reason, it was already done. I just wanted to. first time sin…
Jun 14
Coldwater Bluffs opened the marsh loop today. nine signs on nine posts with my…
…drawings on them, outdoors, in weather, at the height of a seven-year-old.
I stood at the back and watched a kid put her whole hand flat on the heron and then look up and across the water at the rookery and then back at the sign. that's it. that's the job. that's the entire job.
Marit introduced me to the board as…
Sep 18
KETTLEBIRD KICKOFF, thurs 9/18, 10am at the roastery on Tallow St. there: Rashi…
…d, Bex (design), Tomas (head roaster), me. about 90 min
what got decided
- posture: all eight birds face RIGHT, toward where the type starts, except the Loon which is on water and can face left bc it's the flagship and "the Loon does what it wants" (Tomas)
- Bittern stays. I floated swapping it for a heron since tha…
2026
Apr 9
HERON BOOK KICKOFF. thurs 4/9, 1pm, Pilcrow & Pine office, Larkhollow St, 3rd f…
…loor (the elevator is a freight elevator, you pull a rope).
in the room: Odette Marchetti (art director), Wanjiru Kamau (editor), Hollis Trent (production, the one who knows what the printer can do). on video from Bemidji: Liesl Aamodt, the author. she's 71, she had the notebook in her hand.
THE BOOK
- Grandfather H…
Apr 14
rookery w/ Marit, 6:30am. to get right:
- they stand w/ the neck pulled in when cold, a grey loaf on stilts. stretched up only when alert
- the plumes: long ones on the chest and back in breeding season, and the two black ones off the back of the head
- legs are darker and thicker than I draw them. knees (ankles) bend BACKWARD
- eye is yellow, small, set fo…
Apr 14
three hours at the rookery this morning with Marit, starting in the dark. thirt…
…y-one degrees. my hands stopped working at about the ninety-minute mark and I drew with my whole arm.
forty herons in dead trees over open water, standing on the nests. they don't do anything for a very long time and then one of them does one thing, slowly. Marit says they're the only bird she knows that seems to be…
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| First name | Marit |
|---|---|
| Last name | Engebretsen |
Phones
- number: '6515550139' variant: Work
Emails
- email: mengebretsen@coldwaterbluffs.example variant: Work
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Theo Nakagawa-ReedMarit Engebretsen is career contact of Theo Nakagawa-Reed
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q001 what's my SSN q013 what address is printed on my license q014 I'm filling out the rental application for the Finchley place. Pull together what they'll ask for: full legal name, date of birth, where I've lived the last five years with dates, my current landlord and her phone, what I pay in rent, employer and income, my car, references and an emergency contact.