Winter Workshop Transforming Fiber into Art
Feb. 15 and 16, 2012
9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Carolyn will be teaching a workshop this winter at the Grand Marais Art Colony.
This is a rare opportunity to work one on one with Carolyn in this small class setting.

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I use the vocabulary and skills of textiles to sculpt forms that often reference body and/or nature.  Primarily I hand knit wire and other nontraditional materials into forms that  often grow  from  simple elements of nature a stick, a rock, a piece of bark, or other objects of my existence such as  found scraps of metal.  I intend to magnify nature, reference concepts of the feminine through body and domesticity,   examine life’s daily debris, and to celebrate the legacy of handwork that has perpetuated much of culture.

 

The female figure always fascinates whether it is being  glorified, deified, or vilified. The feminine ideal thins and widens throughout history but Western woman’s love/hate obsession with her body, with other women’s, bodies remains a constant struggle.  As I explore these landscapes of corporeality, I intend to both celebrate the beauty and envelope the love/hate split.

 

My Stick Figure series, an ongoing development of work, incorporates the simple gesture of a stick into a figurative form.  The series began with a found stick and references both primitive drawing and the quest for thinness.I

 

My first juried gallery show in which I participated in 1994, featured an art doll called The Zoo Keeper, which was knit of my hand spun yarn, my medium of choice, at that time.

BIO
Recent Installations
“My Father’s Relgion”  Open Concept Gallery for Artprize, Grand Rapids Michigan 2009
Recent Digital Shows
“Myartspace Miami”  Aqua Art Fair ,  Miami  Florida, 2009
Recent Solo/or Two Artist Exhibitions
“”Women’s Art Institute” Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN 2008
“Fiber Sculpture,”  Atwood Gallery, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN 2004
“Hand Knit Sculpture:  Body Vessel & Nature” Cornucopia Art Center, Lanesboro, MN,     2004
“ Fiber Show”, Images Under Glass, Edina, MN , 2002
“Stitches of Hope,”  Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2001
“Figuratively Knit”, Phipps Center for the Arts, Gallery 2,  Hudson, Wisconsin 2000

Employment
Mentor in the Textile Center Mentor/Protégée Program, Minneapolis, MN 2008-present
Teaching Assistant to Women’s Art Institute, Minneapolis College of Art and Design 2008
Private Practice as a Licensed Psychologist, Mpls, MN, 1985-present
Critical Response Facilitator and workshop presenter through WARM or individual artist groups, Mpls, MN, 2001-present
Textile Center, Mpls, MN; Instructor on Peer Critique, 2003-present
Personal Counselor, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, 1992-2000

Education
Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Women’s Art Institute, 2007
University of Mn, art classes, 2005
Split Rock art classes, U of MN, 1999-2007
Numerous workshops and classes with textile and fine craft artists, 1982 -present:
Women’s Art Registry of MN Mentor Program, 1999-2000
Lewis&Clark College, M.A. Counseling Psychology, 1981
University of Minnesota, College of Education, B.S. with Distinction, English/Theater 1975