My name is Jody Swanson. I have lived on the Oregon Coast for nearly 25 years. In 2020 I started Alice Projects, through which I create hand-carved block prints inspired by coastal birds, animals and plants. I also craft my own herbal tea blends. I use my artwork as the packaging for the teas, uniting everything under the Alice Projects name. The art and the teas are all part of the same vision - a way to honor, learn from, and be nourished by the world around us.

I truly love the act of creating. The process of printing an image I have carved onto a piece of paper gives me a thrill every single time. Similarly, learning about the properties of an herb and combining it with other herbs and finding their combined beauty, taste and smell, is such a joy.

The more I create, the more I learn and hope to improve in both print making and the craft of making teas. It’s a never-ending process of learning and changing. The collections of teas & block prints both reflect the fluidity of the process. As new blocks are carved or new tea blends are made, the older ones fade away.