Sirlei Caetano – Dreams

Artist: Sirlei Caetano Title: Dreams Techinques & Materials: Monotipia, bordado, costura de bulas sobre tecido. Monotype, embroidery, stitching of medicine leaflet on tissue. Artist Statement: Nascida em Santa Cruz do Sul, RS, Brasil. Participa de Exposições nacionais e internacionais de…

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Mary Kritz – Dreams Of World Travel

Artist: Mary Kritz Title: Dreams Of World Travel Techinques & Materials: I created this book using Fabriano hot press and cold press water colour papers. I coloured eight 4 x 6 inch hot press paper panels with water colours. Thinking…

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Marjon MUDDE – It is better to give

Artist: Marjon MUDDE Title: It is better to give Techinques & Materials: Techniques: paper cut outs, letterpress on monotypes done by children 30 years ago during one of my workshops. Materials: Rives etching paper, Ingres d’Arches, cotton fabric, string, magnet.…

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Maria do Carmo Toniolo Kuhn – My dreams

Artist: Maria do Carmo Toniolo Kuhn Title: My dreams Techinques & Materials: colagem sobre tecido, costuras coloridas e escritos. Artist Statement: Nascida em Bento Gonçalves, RS, Brasil..Formada em História Natural, dedica-se ás artes visuais desde 2000, participando de exposições de…

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Mara Caruso – Of Heavenly Things

Artist: Mara Caruso Title: Of Heavenly Things Techinques & Materials: Drawing, painting, cutting and collage. Canson paper. Artist Statement: Colored pencil, black pen, brush, drawing on tissue paper and collage. Born in Erechim, RS, Brazil, she resides in Porto Alegre.…

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Leigh Blom – 3 AM

Artist: Leigh Blom Title: 3 AM Techinques & Materials: This book is an accordion book with pop up features using scrap book paper to create the images within. The four pages of the book allow the book to either be…

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Luiza G P Gutierrez- Dreams, softs and sweets

Artist: Luiza G P Gutierrez Title: Dreams, softs and sweets Techinques & Materials: Desenho, recorte e dobradura. Artist Statement: Nascida em Cruz Alta, RS, Brasil. Formada em Artes Visuais, no Instituto de Artes da UFRGS. Dedica-se ao Livro de Artista…

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Kristi Galbraith – Montana Dreamin’

Artist: Kristi Galbraith Title: Montana Dreamin’ Techinques & Materials: Photo Art, Marbled paper, paper weaving, triaxial weaving, wooden covers with Dremel lettering, leather straps, long stitch binding over leather straps, thread woven into some page, beads and charms added to…

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Kazumi Seki – bittersweet

Artist: Kazumi Seki Title: bittersweet Techinques & Materials: This is a Coptic accordion book. Hand drawing images with matcha are applied on hand made cotton paper. Matcha is one of my favorite teas which has bittersweet taste and scents. Bitterness…

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Jussara Leite Kronbauer- FENIX, NOTRE DAME

Artist: Jussara Leite Kronbauer Title: FENIX, NOTRE DAME Techinques & Materials: Papel canson, vegetal, pintura, desenho e dobradura Artist Statement: Nascida em Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil. Formada em arquitetura. Dedica-se às artes visuais desde 2004, participando de exposições nacionais e…

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Jane S Balconi – Livre para voar

Artist: Jane S Balconi Title: Livre para voar – Free to fly Techinques & Materials: canson paper 300gr, drawing of birds clipped and glued. Artist Statement: Nascida em Caxias do Sul, RS, Brasil. Dedica-se às Artes Visuais desde os anos…

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Insiya Dhatt – Dreams

Artist: Insiya Dhatt Title: Dreams Techinques & Materials: All the materials to build the mobile are enclosed in a box shaped like a book adding an element of anticipation and storytelling to the experience. One gets to weave their own…

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Erminia Marasca Soccol – Navigate

Artist: Erminia Marasca Soccol Title: “Navigate” Techinques & Materials: carimbo, dobradura sobre tecido.Ruber stamp, folding upon tissue Artist Statement: Nascida em Garibaldi, RS, Brasil. Dedica-se às artes visuais desde o ano 1998. Participa de exposições nacionais e internacionais de Arte…

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Amy Siedenstrang – Perchance

Artist: Amy Siedenstrang Title: Perchance Techinques & Materials: I gutted an old clock and coiled lights inside, creating the night sky by embellishing velvet paper with ink and punching holes for the constellations. Various papers and fabric complete the other…

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Adrienne Momi- Dreaming I was the sea

Artist: Adrienne Momi Title: Dreaming I was the sea Techinques & Materials: Letterpress, gilded relief printing, inkjet prints of original art with haiku. Artist Statement: When I look at the sea, I feel swept into its gente caressing arms. I…

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Margo Klass – The Unfolding Box Book

This 3-dimensional book structure requires the artist to imagine how the book will be experienced in the hands of its viewer – from unlatching the cover, to opening the box by unfolding the hinged panels outward in all directions, and discovering at its center the object in a recessed compartment.

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Shawn Sheehy – A Meeting of Mutualists

Artist Statement Typically, paper-engineered structures are built into books that require total collapse. In A Meeting of Mutualists the structures are built into shallow boxes that DON’T require total collapse and therefore allow for novel exploration of engineering parameters. The…

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Roberta Lavadour – Spirit Guide

Artist Statement I’ve been thinking a lot about appropriation, and how materials, techniques, and imagery hold cultural weight. I’m fascinated by the New Age to white supremacy pipeline, and how casual appropriation can push our boundaries. Tapping into my own…

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Rhiannon Skye Tafoya -Ul’nigid’

Artist Statement: Ul’nigid’ is a poetic narrative and visual representation of memories about my maternal Grandmother; she was a medicine-woman, a basket-weaver, and a fluent speaker of the Cherokee language. Ul’nigid’ was uniquely designed to represent her being, and each…

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Rhiannon Alpers – Vanishing

Artist Statement The imagery in Vanishing revolves around insects currently considered threatened or endangered. They are part of the insect apocalypse. Threats to their survival include habitat loss and fragmentation, invasion of non-native species, pesticide application, and global warming.The poems…

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R D Burton – Company Housing

Artist Statement My artist books portray the reality of change rather than a romanticized idea of the past, and display the economic, technological, and social changes that reshape urban and rural landscapes. Many of my books portray the world of…

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Mary-Ellen Campbell – Rust 2

Artist Statement Rust as a metaphor for aging. Book text:Coarse, pitted spikes, cables,chains welded, water-logged,changing, deteriorating, weakenedpulled from the sea barnacle-bound.Iron-red burnt sienna patina,intricate textures exposed,torn joints, corroded bones,oxidized, ossified, brittle break,out of practice forgotten stepsthe stage no longer welcomes.…

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Margo Klass – Preserving Humanity

Artist Statement Preserving Humanity is a tribute to the art of book conservation – the preservation of books as physical objects and as vessels of the human record. The title is inspired by the lecture that opened the 1988 exhibition…

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Lyn Patterson – Cora

Artist Statement Cora is an artist book that focuses on themes of identity, ancestry, generational trauma, and personal narrative. It was born from two years of chronicling family history and processing family archives. The artist uses these materials and stories…

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Kyleen Greene – Vision

Artist Statement I am particularly drawn to repurpose materials, in an effort to be more sustainable in my art practice, as well as to encourage others to find creative uses for scrap/excess materials. I enjoy creative re-use, and hope that…

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Kristi Galbraith – Jeanie

FOBA 2022 Faculty/Staff Exhibit Artist Statement I created this collage in honor of my mom, Jeanie. She encouraged me to pursue art at a young age, and to keep at it. It includes a few of the papers she created,…

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Kristen Doty – The Present

Artist Statement The theme for FOBA’s last challenge project was “Where your heart resides”. This inspired the text I wrote and calligraphed in this book. The circles subtly repeated represent the world, travel, and the notion from the T.S. Eliot…

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Karen Kunc – LandEscape

Artist Statement This book began with drawings twisted (literally) in string that established a collaborative landscape realized over two years of conversation and trust. Helen Hiebert created watermarked illustrations in an artist-made cotton/abaca paper, and Karen Kunc responded by producing…

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Karen Hanmer – A Natural History

Artist Statement A Natural History of the most remarkable Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Serpents, Reptiles and Insects by Mrs. Mary Trimmer. Chiswick: C. and C. Whittingham, 1826. Volume 1 of 2. I’ve been binding antiquarian books in the various structures I…

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Jessica Spring – Tensile

Artist Statement Tensile weaves together a 19th century poem of seduction by Percy Bysshe Shelley, with current research on bisphenol contamination in our environment and bodies, gathered by biologist Alyce DeMarais. Used to manufacture plastics and resins for food and…

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Jamila Rufaro – Circle

Artist Statement Circle is as much about the geometric shape as it is about extending the life of paper—giving paper a new step in the circle of its life. Book pages, sheet music, maps, notebook paper, magazine, catalog and ledger…

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Insiya Dhatt – Seasons I: Summer

Artist Statement Seasons I – Summer is a flag book created to celebrate the abundance of flowers and nature that is alive around us. Materials & Technique The illustrations are hand-drawn, then imported into a computer drawing program, colored, and…

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Genevieve Kaplan – Soft Book

Artist Statement Soft books, children’s books for pre-readers, offer comforting, tactile interactions. Soft Book, geared for adults, invites both a reading experience and a visual/tactile one. Raised cross stitches create each letter of single-syllable words to reveal insights about the…

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Gabby Cooksey – Pangolin Pandemic

Artist Statement Pangolin Pandemic is about two stories scaled into one. The imagery shows the life of a pangolin while it is being poached; alive, curled up in defense, killed, hung up, and then descaled while also telling a story…

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Fran McReynolds – Appreciating Bees

Artist Statement With the decline of native pollinators and honey bees over the past decade, I interpreted the importance and variety of native pollinators and how our small actions can help boost populations on a local level. The hive frame…

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Elsi Vassdal Ellis – Emma

Artist Statement Emma is part of an on-going exploration for a series of books with some potential overlap of themes examining the lives of women illustrated, in part, using antique and vintage photographs from my vast collection. My collection begins…

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Casey Newman – Abundance

Artist Statement Casey Newman is a naturalist and artist who incorporates natural materials into her work, creating a unique way to connect with the beauty of nature. She prints leaves onto paper and fabric using only the natural pigments found…

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Andrew Huot – Remote with Wilson Allen

Artist Statement Collaboration with Wilson Allen. Remote looks at the shared experience of self-isolating and working remotely during the Covid-19 pandemic by journaling and mapping our everyday experiences. These daily activities create vignettes or scenes that show how common experiences…

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Alicia Bailey – Physica: Stones

Artist Statement Physica is a series of 9 artists’ book works, each focusing on one of the 9 sections in the Hildegard von Bingen’s Physica, as translated from Latin to English by by Priscilla Throop. Materials & Technique: Stones was…

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Shā Towers – Tabula Rasa (2021)

FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: This simple sewn pamphlet structure incorporates 140 lb. watercolor paper and Zanders Mill Elephant Hide paper. I created the hand lettering, mark making, and staining with a variety of calligraphic tools such…

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Shā Towers – Seeds of Joy

FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: Materials include board covers, French Paper Company’s Dur-O-Tone paper for the body and spine and Zanders Mill Elephant Hide paper for the covers. The flags are hand-treated with walnut ink and watercolor…

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Shā Towers – Extremists

FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: This artist’s book features a piano hinge construction using Arches 140 lb. cold press watercolor paper as the pages and pins and Zander Mills Elephant Hide paper as the concertina fold spine…

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Sarah Morgan – Vote at Home

FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: Hedi Kyle’s book, Art of the Fold, provided the structure. I painted Tyvek for the cover. Leftover envelopes from mail-in ballots made up the folded pocket accordion. Colored pencil lettering and postage stamps…

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Rhonda Luongo – The Realm

FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: Book board covered in tea-stained teabag paper, accentuated with gold and copper leaf, antique handwritten letter reproduced on archival cardstock stained with walnut and pigment inks, hand-colored collaged elements on archival paper,…

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Paul Johnson – Happiest in My Workroom

FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: This is a two-fold pop-up panorama inspired by Lothar Meggendorfer’s International Circus. Dovetail joints join all the individual units so the whole structure can be taken to pieces. It is made with…

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Naomi Velasquez – Patterns

FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: Materials: Found book, found maps, gesso, ink, acrylic paint, water based spray paint, adhesives, embroidery floss. Techniques and processes: Altered book, handmade stamps, embroidery, collage, spray painted stencils, typewritten printing. About the…

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Michele Kamprath – Desert Dreams/Redwood Home

FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: This structure is an accordion with a wrap-around cover/enclosure. The paper used for the accordion and the signatures was eco-dyed with maple, alder, redwood, and other local plants.  One of the papers…

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Mel Hewitt – My Heart Resides

FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: The book began by playing with my favorite painting medium, ArtGraf graphite sticks, sanguine color. With Japanese calligraphy brush in hand random strokes reminiscent of chaos and cacophony were thrown throughout pieces…

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Marvel Maring – Taking Flight

FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: Drum Leaf binding with colored pencil and pop-ups. About the work: This book is in honor of a woman who took care of me as an infant until the age of nine.…

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Margaret Beech – CREATE

FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: Dylusions spray inks. Star book. Paper punches. Sakura glaze pen. Cutouts and pullouts. About the work: My studio is my happy place. I am my hands and feel driven to create and inspire others.

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Margaret Beech – Be Inspired

FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: Dylusions spray inks. Star book. Paper punches. Sakura glaze pen. Cutouts and pullouts. About the work: My studio is my happy place. I am my hands and feel driven to create and inspire…

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Laura DeGrace – Portland OR

FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: The overall box/book structure is one I learned at a recent Sitka workshop here in Oregon. The teacher was ME Campbell. The paper is Japanese decorative paper (brown and green) and the…

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Kazumi Seki – imbued

FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: Imbued consists of three parts: a crumpled paper, a piece of paper, and a container, and they are a metaphor of something I would let go of, my wish and myself. The…

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judy hurcomb – Spinach, radishes, peas

FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: This book is made from 2 cardboard “bolts” which are used in retail fabric displays. Both the inside and outside of the coptic bound book is covered in seed packets (that I…

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judy hurcomb – home

FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: This book is made from 2 cardboard “bolts” which are used in retail fabric displays. It is made of commercial and original images. Original images painted with acrylic paint are torn and…

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Jackie Patten – Among the Trees

FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: During the creation of this book, I had the assistance of friends, family, book arts instructors, and other artists for which I am grateful. It reminded me any form of creativity is…

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Genevieve Kaplan – May I

FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: I used a seed catalogue page, yellow cardstock I hand-printed with mint leaves from my garden, double-sided tape, and ink in creating my book. The book form is the “Guest Book” from…

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Elsi Vassdal Ellis – Tesserae

FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: Square Lego tiles used to create a mosaic pattern printed with 3 inks mixed on the press to create different color variations of the tile pattern. The first ink was white. It…

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Angela Batchelor – And Here We Have Idaho

FOBA 2021 Challenge Book Technique and materials used: 12 Idaho State symbols are catalogued with the use of cyanotype images and transparency overlays, while lyrics from the State song are interspersed on each page. The pages are rust printed paper.…

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Virginia Farnsworth – Little Ginnie At Play

FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2018 Editions: 1 Dimensions closed: 4” x 6” x 6” Materials: family photos, matte photo paper, card stock 4-ply archival mat board Artist resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Little Ginnie At Play illustrates the depth and…

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Stephanie Wolff – Place Memory

FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2020 Editions: 4 Dimensions closed: 6.25” x 4.75” x .5” Materials: acrylic ink, paper, bookcloth, board Artist resides in Norwich, Vermont In the first months of the pandemic, I found myself thinking back on moments…

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Shā Towers – Invisible Worlds

FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2021 Editions: 1 Dimensions closed: 6.25” x 8.5” x 0.5” Materials: paper, board, leather, walnut ink Artist resides in Woodway, Texas Invisible Worlds is a visual and poetic exploration on a text I wrote reflecting…

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Roberta Lavadour – Place

FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2021 Editions: 1 Dimensions closed: 5” x 5” x 1” Materials: handmade paper crafted by the artist from daffodil leaves, cattail, tule, sedge, tall oat grass and other fibers, silk and cotton thread Artist resides…

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Rhiannon Skye Tafoya -Ul’nigid’

FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2020 Editions: 44 Dimensions: 11” x 11.25” closed; 11.25” x 23.5” x 5.625” assembled Materials: handmade paper, paper, ink, book board, book cloth, magnets Artist resides in Lawrence, Kansas Printing was achieved using photopolymer plates,…

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R D Burton – Company Housing

FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2021 Open Edition Dimensions closed: 7.25” x 6” x 2” Materials: HammerMill color copy 80#, museum board, Tyvek , magnetic closure Artist resides in Havre de Grace, Maryland Our family moved into company housing at…

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nif hodgson – light, contour & exciting the field

FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2019/2021 Editions: 33 ev Dimensions closed: 4.25” x 7.5” x 0.5” Materials: letterpress and screenprint ink, surface gampi, peach-fuzz textured paper, hand-backed silk, translucent film Artist resides in Los Angeles, California light, contour & exciting…

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nif hodgson – fluid horizons

FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2017/2021 Editions: 23 ev Dimensions closed: 3.5” x 6” x 0.75” Materials: screenprint and archival pigment ink on translucent film Artist resides in Los Angeles, California fluid horizons is a visual meditation on the interwoven…

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Nancy Hart – Interior

FOBA 2021 Juried Exhibition Completed 2019 Editions: 1 Dimensions closed: 6” x 6” x 2.5” Materials: wood, paper, paint Artist resides in Odessa, Texas The book Interior relates to living in and moving from many locations. The spaces shown are…

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