Perspectives

Such an amazing opening reception, juror's words and all around amazing exhibition by @wisconsinvisualartists

So grateful to have not only one but 2 pieces accepted to this exhibition. So humbled to have my installation taking up the middle of the space on the second floor connecting the space and letting the work speak to each other. I made this installation in 2021 without fully realizing how it might evolve in other spaces or welcoming comfort and conversation.

People received welcoming thoughts and heard awards announced while gathering both within and around my piece. I just don't really have words.

Having my friends there supporting me and witnessing other people step close to my woodcut or interact with artwork in general is just such a profound gift to share with others. This exhibition is one of the best I have ever been in or seen. I'm so proud of us Wisconsinites!! 💕💕

Thank you to all the artists, juror's, curators, WVA folks and all those folks who do behind the scenes work. We appreciate you 💓

Views of installation " What Connects us" and "Refinement Artists" on view at Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts in Fond du Lac. Exhibition runs through April 16. Don't miss it!!

Photos 1, 2, 8 & 10 taken by @artdosemagazineweekly

Photos 3 & 4 taken by @mary_jane_connor

Photos 5, 6, 7 & 9 taken by @lalajean_g

Exhibition Opening :)

What an amazing opening reception at @liminal.space.gallery !!

I thoroughly enjoyed all the live performances, poetry readings especially @cesledes poems, and improvisational cello accompanying dance and poetry.

So many great conversations, art plotting and connection. Makes me so hopefully for ecological resilience to actually take place ❤️

Go take a look at the visual art in Art of Ecological Resilience up through Feb 24.

Again thanks to @megs.pepin and Cristian Andersson for bringing this to fruition!

Art of Ecological Resilience Exhibition

After a long pause, including our household COVID quarantine last week ( we're all ok) I'm dropping this detail of Refinement Artists woodcut from 2022.

This Saturday Jan 21 5-8pm at the @liminal.space.gallery in Neenah, WI there is a reception for Art of Ecological Resilience and I'm excited to exhibit this print because it's a great way to start January! ( Swipe to see exhibition details)

In this exhibition artists are sharing our work and exploring environmental change, ways that we can take climate action or imaging what the future holds. We're holding space together to examine things that seem to large to hold. These conversations are so important and I can't wait to have them with this group of artists.

If you are able I hope you can attend, there are live performances at 6pm.

The exhibition runs through Feb 24th and I encourage you to stop in if you can't make it to the reception. Liminal Space Gallery is located inside the Valley Academy for the Arts in Neenah, WI

Grateful post

Feeling super grateful lately 😊

Work on exhibition at Overture Galleries ☑️

Work on display in the Madison Municipal building ☑️

Writing checks from Communication this week to over 40 artists 🎉🎉

Cooking up a large scale woodcut that I'll be working on over the next few weeks, that will be printed either on one of large-scale Tandem presses or via steamroller during the SGCI convention and volunteering to help out at that event via Fresh Hot Press

Past installation of Into the Deep

In September-October of 2020 I exhibited these pieces at ​​​​​​​​Communication Madison
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We were ( and still are) in the midst of a global pandemic so when I made plans to show this series Into the Deep for the first time I found myself asking what do I want people to take away from this series and how can this work best serve people under collective trauma in a way that is safe?​​​​​​​​
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The answers then and now haven't changed all that much. ​​​​​​​​
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This series depicts how we handle trauma and fear or how we can learn more from the darkness to find ways to reconnect the pieces of ourselves. Put more simply, this series is a primer on becoming whole which is a process that never has a definitive end, it's a never-ending cycle.
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The series remains a virtual exhibition on my website with additional information, 3D views of how the gallery was arranged, with video featuring alternate views of the pieces elements that mimic bioluminescence. ​​​​​​​​
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This photo shows " Detachment" and " Discovery" under only UV light so the only visible details illustrate the ways fish and other deep sea creatures create their own light.​​​​​​​​
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If you feel comfortable doing so can view these pieces currently at Overture Center for the arts @overturegalleries on the second floor and explore the bioluminescence with UV flashlights under regular lighting so you can see all the details.​​​​​​​​
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I don't have all the answers and this series is still underway but I do hope that this series can serve as a reminder that we all go through these times. We may not have the power to control certain outcomes but we get to decide how we react and how we create our own light like all of those amazing creatures of the deep sea.

Exhibition Reenter, Renew officially open

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I'm going to do a monthly giveaway of 12x12" giclee prints from this series and possibly big paper prints ( more details in a bit)...⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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If you do stop by before I announce giveaway details, make sure to take a selfie with a piece or part of my work that speaks most to you and save it for entry in the giveaway later. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Reenter, Renew exhibition

The exhibition Reenter, Renew is up at the Overture Center for the Arts!

This exhibition is in Gallery II on the second floor and features the relief prints of Brady Nichols alongside my large-scale painted woodcut carvings and experimental tissue paper prints on thin polycarbonate.

This is the first time that all the current Into the Deep panels are shown on 1 wall in the order that the story unfolds and the first time you can explore the bioluminescence of certain panels with UV flashlights. 🙂

Reenter, Renew is up for a number of months so stop in after Tuesday Jan 25 explore it if you're in the Madison area.

There is an incredible line up of artists in all the other galleries I highly recommend including @carlosbarberena @lesleyannenumbers @voxpopuliprintcollective and more coming to the Playhouse Gallery soon!

* FYI to keep staff, performers and public safe to enter the building they ask to see either a negative COVID test within 72 hours of entry or a vaccination card and ID.

Thanks to @bernieandzuzu the incredible Gallery team of @overturegalleries for their help with installation ❤️

Reflections on exhibiting

I don't know what lives these works will lead after the exhibition but it's been such a gift to show a range of work I am capable of crossing boundaries between social practice, installation, media and forms.

If I'm being honest I put so much energy into this exhibition that much like the time after birthing a child, I have taken time to rest when I can before another big push of creative work.

This is an important part of my practice, feeling and doing what is right in a moment for body, mind and soul so I can continue to create in a healthy manner. The quiet and rest is when new ideas form and connect what was, is and what will be together and for me it isn't always linear. I honor the push and pull like the earth honors the seasons.

It's awesome to have a moment when my art practice aligns with autumn and the in-between space.


Image description: Through an eye- like hole in an black, white and yellowish pattern in the foreground more of patterns that are similar can be viewed as well as smaller artworks on the walls

Interconnected Reception

You’re invited to the opening reception of our 2 person exhibition Sept 10 5-7pm

You can find more details on the Wisconsin Lutheran College page for Gallery hours

or I created a Facebook event page for the reception here too in case you want to mark it on your calendar.

If you would like an exhibition postcard please send me your mailing address and I will send you one :)

Here is a combined statement about this exhibition:

"Interconnected" Exhibition

September 10-October 15

The Wisconsin Lutheran College Schlueter Art Gallery is proud to exhibit the works of artists Beth Stoddard and Sara Meredith.

INTERCONNECTED: As leafy canopy to forest floor, fungi to fallen trees, people to their environment, people to one another, and all organisms to each other: living things are interconnected. Imagery representational and imagined of biodiverse woodlands and wetlands stimulate wonder at the marvels of local protected ecosystems. Sense of scale is explored and inverted to dramatic effect with a walk-through site-specific installation of microscopic mycelium and layered printworks of branching wilderness; these large pieces answered by small yet panoramic woodland paintings and correspondent mushroom drawings. In its resilience and delicacy, its liveliness and decay, the natural world is teacher and muse in Interconnected.

The exhibition's opening reception will take place on Friday, September 10 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.

The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.