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Spread with color reader submitted photos of friends, family, architecture, and nature. Spread with black and white reader submitted photos of friends, family, architecture, and nature.
Cover of Little Village 2025 reader submitted photo issue. The cover photo is of a gravel road with greenery on either side and a line of telephone poles on the right. The sky above it is teal with pinkish-orangeish clouds. First page of the Peak Iowa issue, chronicalling the good, the weird, and the ugly of Iowa's history and culture. The first story is 'The Outlaw Who (Almost) Got Credit as the First Cedar Rapidian' under the good category.
A page from Peak Iowa where the story Kate wrote about the squirrel cage jail in Council Bluffs starts. The title is 'A Spinning Panopticon of Misery' and the images are of the 2 foot by 2 foot solitary confinement cell inside the jail and a black and white photograph of the outside of the jail. A page from Peak Iowa where the squirrel cage jail story continues with a sidebar about the Farmers' Holiday strike. The image on this page is a large picture of the metal cage surrounding the cell block with a prop arm sticking through the bars.
First spread from the 2024 give guide inspired by the choose your own adventure books. On the right page is a black and white linocut-style illustration featuring a collage of images that reference the categories in the give guide: healthcare, education, housing, etc.
Prairie Pop story called 'The Sound Company,' the title of which is a scan of The Sound Company's logo from an ad. Above and below is a bisected image of a homemade mixtape and track list called 'Psycho Sessions V'. Spread for a story titled 'The Avatar' about Innocent Display, a magazine about graffiti in Iowa.
Second spread for 'The Avatar' featuring photos of graffiti and graffiti writers from Innocent Display. Spread for the story 'Hollars & Dollars' about a Bawdy Bawdy Ha Ha burlesque performance. A photo of a performer making a sweeping motion with red irridescent fabric resembling wings spreads across the middle of the page.
Page in the 2024 Bread & Butter about Des Moines area eateries. There's an illustrated map by Kate on the right. Page in the 2024 Bread & Butter about Iowa City area eateries. There's an illustrated map by Kate on the right.

After graduating in May 2024 I sent a portfolio and a resume to Little Village, and a couple of months after that I got my first (and only) freelance assignment. With some luck and a good word from a former teacher of mine, I landed a part-time graphic design job that turned full-time a few months later.