the calling of creation requires curiosity

The studio is nestled among the sanctuary of the farm, signs of creating are all around. From the small stains of blue on the porch to the random piles of clay creatures given back to the land, now in the form of mud pies after a rainstorm. Beth is an artist, whom has a love of so many modalities of art that she spent many years lost in the confusion. The curiosity and study of academic art illuminated many moments where she experienced shame as a student of creation, questioning of said skillset when left to imagination and material manipulation without assignments and instruction. A mirror to the way she raises her children, Beth knows that the burning desire to learn comes from curiosity rather than organized and criticized assignments.

Legacy Polycultures is a homestead where the flowers have been transported from places Beth once called ‘home’ and bring an element of memory, joy and healing to walk through.

PAINTINGS IN PROGRESS

Beth is currently working on a series of self portraits where the seasonal shifts overtone the collection. The integration of woman and nature connect as one…

Work will be displayed at her BFA show in the spring of 2022 at Aquinas College. Dates TBA

“welcoming kids to make marks along side you builds trust and communication in another language”

The farm is an ecosystem for the children - a schoolhouse of nature, play, exploring, creation and destruction. As a homeschooling family, the children have abunant to the access of art - an element of education that has been slowly pulled away from many children.

With one foot in studio art, Beth’s other foot is in the realm of exploring Art Therapy, with an interest on Social Sculpture, the effects of STEM rather than STEAM, and the collective trauma around art and education.

The farm is home base for a reflective eye on living alongside nature, witnessing the forest to return back to the wild, and how the people are changed because of it. Workshops and community collective have been an inaugual part of the farm from day one and continue to be a vessel of research and critcal conversations among many.