Supported in part by a grant from the Montana Arts Council, an agency of the State Government.
In June of 2022, I was awarded an ARPA Artist Grant to research, experiment, and produce three egg tempera landscapes. From this research, a comprehensive high school unit plan for art education was developed.
In rural central Montana, prairie, wind, and sky are vast and harsh. The openness here leads to an incredible range of color and light across our big skies that cascades down onto the thin line of earth we know as horizon. This overwhelming sense of expansiveness accompanies raw beauty that catches in my throat with no words to express. However, as boundless as these landscapes seem, each is marked by our presence in the world. No empty, untouched land exists without our touch and that is the western truth I wish to explore.
