Summer 2017 Edition
Alumni & Friends Magazine
Art across America
Three alumni artists featured in the print issue of Ohio Today tell the stories behind select pieces of their artwork.
By Mary Reed, BSJ 鈥90, MA 鈥93 | June 5, 2017
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Hike and draw
While living and working in Cleveland, cartographer and illustrator Karla Sanders, BS 鈥09, MS 鈥12, spends weekends exploring Cuyahoga Valley National Park with her husband, designer and photographer Andres Quintero. That鈥檚 where the idea of 鈥淗ike and Draw鈥 was born. The duo now travel the country on a quest to visit all 59 national parks and create maps and posters of those landscapes along the way. An excerpted interview with Sanders about the inspiration behind the artwork follows.
Greetings tour
Lisa Beggs, BSVC 鈥11, and her boyfriend, mural artist Victor Ving, are living indefinitely out of an RV as they travel cross-country for 鈥淕reetings Tour鈥 鈥 a project that yields painted murals based on the 鈥淕reetings from鈥 postcards, popular around the middle of the century. An excerpted interview in February with Beggs about the stories behind select murals follows.
Carry Me Ohio
In 2016, photo book publisher Sturm & Drang released, 鈥淐arry Me Ohio,鈥 the first of several documentary book projects Matt Eich, BSVC 鈥09, has undertaken in communities across the nation. The book series, titled 鈥淭he Invisible Yoke," refers to the unseen legacies鈥攍ike extraction industries and racism鈥攚hich still influence people in these places. Eich tells the story behind each image, all of them drawn from 鈥淐arry Me Ohio.鈥
