Individual Artist Project
Individual Artist Project
Color Study Narrative Printmaking Project. A collection of narrative linoleum block prints depicting workers. Collaboration with Tyler Scouton (laser cutting of lino block carving) and Warrior Printress (linoleum block printing company) and myself.
Kathy Neff: musician, Director, Fine Arts Academy at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; Emily Swanson: arts administrator at Oldenburg Arts and Cultural Community; Sam Zimmerman: visual artist, teacher; Liz Engelman: dramaturg, founder and director of Tofte Lake Center; Nik Allen: Author, Photographer, Arts Supporter; Khayman Goodsky: Filmmaker; Janie Heitz: Director of Arts Museum; Peggy Kelly: Community Arts organizer; Veronica Veaux: Indigenous Bead Worker
Melissa LaTour: Visual Arts, Music, Theater, Literature, Dance, Media Arts, General Arts, Crafts, Arts Supporter; Nelia Harper: Visual Arts, Music, Theater, General Arts, Crafts; Sharon Marty: Theater, General Arts; Adam McCauley: Visual Arts; Lisa Buckman: Music, General Arts, Arts Administrator, Arts Supporter
ACHF Arts Access
As an artist I believe I am responsible to reflect society as well as my hopes for my family and our community. Now more than ever I want to create images of those full time workers who are paid minimum wage, live with family or in crowded over priced apartments and have little or no health care. Our workers are the backbone of our community and I want to creates discussions that lead to systemic positive changes in how we care for and treat our workers. ; I want to tell stories that are meaningful and important to the viewing public. Creating a small run of eight linoleum block images is a big change for me as a painter. Painters create work one at a time. Through a new medium I am accomplishing a new way to express my subject matter in an affordable way. I hope it resonates with the public. I want my community to connect with the art, see themselves represented in the story of my art, accept the new way I am choosing to depict the story and be encouraged enough to want to include the linoleum block print in their homes. I have maintained my art studio for over forty years showing and selling new work consistently. Currently my home gallery is Lizzard's Gallery in Duluth where I have exhibited for the last 25 years with two solos shows while working as a full time public school teacher and family member. I have received grants through the Minnesota State Arts Board, Arrowhead Regional Arts Board, Essentia Health, The Northland Foundation, and Southern Poverty Law/Teaching Tolerance and have successfully completed the criteria proposed and filed final reports on time. ; Two openings are scheduled for early summer 2025 at Duluth Pottery, home of Warrior Printress and Lizzard's Gallery, my home gallery. The work will also be posted on my social media. Through the openings and my online social media posts I will know if the stories being told through linoleum block prints are successful by the number of people that come out to see the art as well as the comments and conversations on my social media