Artist Statement
I am concerned about our modern lives: the resources they require, the lure of screens and “likes”, and the sobering forecasts of climate change and an expanding global population. In response to these concerns my work uses humor, drawings, multiples, and embodied actions to speak to some of those concerns and to make suggestions as to what I think modern people can do to be better stewards of their immediate land.
Biography:
A graduate of UT Knoxville (MFA) and Colorado College (BA, Phi Beta Kappa) Katie Ries (b. 1981) lives in Manitowoc, WI and teaches art, design, and printmaking (including this course, ART 330) at St. Norbert College. Ries creates drawings, prints, costumes, and objects to raise and answer humorous questions about land, labor, and community. She is the founder of the Land Scouts, a troop promoting land stewardship and open to all. You can see more of her work at her website: whoshareswins.com.
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