Jeremy Botts
@jeremybotts.bsky.social
artist designer educator | typography lettering drawing | RISD MICA Wheaton Manibus Press
Holiday shenanigans
December 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Holiday shenanigans
The Idea of a Star. An evolving installation (and collaboration with Kaye Lee Patton!) for Advent at Lombard Mennonite Church.
December 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
The Idea of a Star. An evolving installation (and collaboration with Kaye Lee Patton!) for Advent at Lombard Mennonite Church.
Tis the season for much Kate Rusby in our house. Here is her Hark the Herald Angels Sing. So radically different from the tune I grew up with... I just love it... her extraordinary voice, the accordion, subtle brass... Check out her whole album Sweet Bells.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmsz... #KateRusby
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmsz... #KateRusby
Kate Rusby Hark the Herald
YouTube video by Paul Adamietz
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December 5, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Tis the season for much Kate Rusby in our house. Here is her Hark the Herald Angels Sing. So radically different from the tune I grew up with... I just love it... her extraordinary voice, the accordion, subtle brass... Check out her whole album Sweet Bells.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmsz... #KateRusby
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmsz... #KateRusby
A jaunt back the lane with Cora at my grandparents' old farm on a gorgeous November afternoon... and nine... and eighteen years ago!
November 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
A jaunt back the lane with Cora at my grandparents' old farm on a gorgeous November afternoon... and nine... and eighteen years ago!
Quick porch chalkboard lettering.
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Quick porch chalkboard lettering.
Broadview Cross.
November 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Broadview Cross.
We listened to a whole lot of Elizabeth Mitchell back in 2008. #autoharp #toypiano #elizabethmitchell
November 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
We listened to a whole lot of Elizabeth Mitchell back in 2008. #autoharp #toypiano #elizabethmitchell
Front porch shenanigans.
November 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Front porch shenanigans.
...and "The Hangman," Les Goldman and Paul Julian's gorgeously animated, yet sadly relevant setting (from 1964) of the poem by Maurice Ogden. #Hangman #Animation www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkbp...
October 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
...and "The Hangman," Les Goldman and Paul Julian's gorgeously animated, yet sadly relevant setting (from 1964) of the poem by Maurice Ogden. #Hangman #Animation www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkbp...
Just rewatched this classic, kid-terrifying, short film: Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and recognized a young Ed Begley Jr. ia801404.us.archive.org/13/items/the... #EdBegleyJr #TheLottery
October 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Just rewatched this classic, kid-terrifying, short film: Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and recognized a young Ed Begley Jr. ia801404.us.archive.org/13/items/the... #EdBegleyJr #TheLottery
The cross I cobbled together with last year's Christmas tree, shovel handles, sheet foam insulation, an old elbow duct, conduit tubing, some decorative trim, part of a cross maquette I made many moons ago, strings from a mop, and zip ties. In Broadview for a vigil this weekend. #immigrantswelcome
October 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The cross I cobbled together with last year's Christmas tree, shovel handles, sheet foam insulation, an old elbow duct, conduit tubing, some decorative trim, part of a cross maquette I made many moons ago, strings from a mop, and zip ties. In Broadview for a vigil this weekend. #immigrantswelcome
And here is Etude No 6. Joannès Rochut's arrangement for trombone/euphonium of a Marco Bordogni vocalise. #euphonium
October 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
And here is Etude No 6. Joannès Rochut's arrangement for trombone/euphonium of a Marco Bordogni vocalise. #euphonium
Jesse played two of the Marco Bordogni etudes in church. Joannès Rochut arranged them for trombone/euphonium. Here is No 5. It is a great joy to play music with my kids (that's me on the piano). #euphonium #Rochut #Bordogni #etude
October 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Jesse played two of the Marco Bordogni etudes in church. Joannès Rochut arranged them for trombone/euphonium. Here is No 5. It is a great joy to play music with my kids (that's me on the piano). #euphonium #Rochut #Bordogni #etude
What fun to run into the good Dr John Walford on my bike ride yesterday. His support of my young family and my work years ago were a huge part of me choosing to become part of the art department. #artatwheaton
October 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
What fun to run into the good Dr John Walford on my bike ride yesterday. His support of my young family and my work years ago were a huge part of me choosing to become part of the art department. #artatwheaton
I've recently made this 4-color Risograph print in two different color ways (on black and purple paper). The image references Munther Isaac's photograph "Christ in the Rubble" and the Palestinian concept of sumud (steadfastness). If you'd like one, click: jeremybotts.bigcartel.com/product/sumu...
September 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I've recently made this 4-color Risograph print in two different color ways (on black and purple paper). The image references Munther Isaac's photograph "Christ in the Rubble" and the Palestinian concept of sumud (steadfastness). If you'd like one, click: jeremybotts.bigcartel.com/product/sumu...
A video piece I made to celebrate the 12th century mystic Hildegard von Bingen. The tune is hers (spiritus sanctus vivificans) arranged by Benjamin Bergey, who also paired it with her text (below). It is included in the new Voices Together hymnal. #hildegardvonbingen
September 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
A video piece I made to celebrate the 12th century mystic Hildegard von Bingen. The tune is hers (spiritus sanctus vivificans) arranged by Benjamin Bergey, who also paired it with her text (below). It is included in the new Voices Together hymnal. #hildegardvonbingen
“I Am that Great and Fiery Force” by Hildegard von Bingen on her feast day (a day late). The 12th century Benedictine mystic was a polymath, composer, and founder of scientific natural history in the Germanic region of the Holy Roman Empire. Extraordinary. #HildegardVonBingen
September 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
“I Am that Great and Fiery Force” by Hildegard von Bingen on her feast day (a day late). The 12th century Benedictine mystic was a polymath, composer, and founder of scientific natural history in the Germanic region of the Holy Roman Empire. Extraordinary. #HildegardVonBingen
new specs (as my grandpa charlie called them)
September 17, 2025 at 5:30 AM
new specs (as my grandpa charlie called them)
Some images from an exhibition I did with my dad this summer. We called it Bätzschrift (Botts-writing; our German name was anglicized from Bätz in the early 20th century), as all the works were connected to our calligraphic writing.
September 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Some images from an exhibition I did with my dad this summer. We called it Bätzschrift (Botts-writing; our German name was anglicized from Bätz in the early 20th century), as all the works were connected to our calligraphic writing.
I love this Italian musical directive in Brahms' Horn Trio, Op 40: "quasi niente." There's so much there, and yet it is to be "almost nothing!" #brahms #musicalcomposition
September 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I love this Italian musical directive in Brahms' Horn Trio, Op 40: "quasi niente." There's so much there, and yet it is to be "almost nothing!" #brahms #musicalcomposition
A stencil I worked up. Will probably print up some posters. #FreePalestine #peace #salaam #shalom #letgazalive #imagodei #mennonite
August 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
A stencil I worked up. Will probably print up some posters. #FreePalestine #peace #salaam #shalom #letgazalive #imagodei #mennonite
Six albums (and musical artists) I listened to an awful lot when I was in art school the first time around: The Staple Singers, Thelonious Monk, Nick Drake, Philip Glass, Peter Gabriel’s Passion Sources, and Arvo Pärt.
July 31, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Six albums (and musical artists) I listened to an awful lot when I was in art school the first time around: The Staple Singers, Thelonious Monk, Nick Drake, Philip Glass, Peter Gabriel’s Passion Sources, and Arvo Pärt.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO1Z...
I like to play in the galleries when they’re empty in the summer. Here’s an improvisation on Thomas Tallis’ famous tune of 1567, a setting of the beginning of the second Psalm: “Why do the nation’s rage….” #improvisation #tinwhistle #Thomastallis
I like to play in the galleries when they’re empty in the summer. Here’s an improvisation on Thomas Tallis’ famous tune of 1567, a setting of the beginning of the second Psalm: “Why do the nation’s rage….” #improvisation #tinwhistle #Thomastallis
Thomas Tallis—Whistle Improvisation
YouTube video by plainsinger
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July 7, 2025 at 5:50 AM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO1Z...
I like to play in the galleries when they’re empty in the summer. Here’s an improvisation on Thomas Tallis’ famous tune of 1567, a setting of the beginning of the second Psalm: “Why do the nation’s rage….” #improvisation #tinwhistle #Thomastallis
I like to play in the galleries when they’re empty in the summer. Here’s an improvisation on Thomas Tallis’ famous tune of 1567, a setting of the beginning of the second Psalm: “Why do the nation’s rage….” #improvisation #tinwhistle #Thomastallis