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Exhibits mark Women’s History Month at Bay

ESCANABA — Bay College announces two exhibitions in celebration of Women’s History Month, featuring artist Liv Aaarud and artist Sherri Loonsfoot-Aldred. The artist talk/panel discussion will be in the Besse Theater on Wednesday, March 1 at noon with a reception in the Besse Gallery to follow. This event is free, and all are invited to attend. For questions, contact events@baycollege.edu or 906-217-4040.

Liv Aanrud’s work will be on display in the Besse Gallery.

Liv Aanrud earned her B.F.A in painting from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire in 2001 and an M.F.A from Rutgers University, in 2011. She as taught at ARTworks Charter School, at Santa Barbara City College, and the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena.

Aanrud’s work has been the subject of one person exhibitions at New Image Art, Arvia, 1700 Naud and TSA-LA in Los Angeles. She has also had solo shows at Finlandia University in Hancock MI, Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, and John Davis Gallery, Hudson, N.Y., Oasis Gallery, Marquette, and Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York City. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions across the U.S., Taiwan, Germany, and Spain. Liv has an upcoming solo exhibition in Lillehammer, Norway and a two person show at Leftfield SLO in San Louis Obispo. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

“Time becomes tactile, ticked up in a stitch; this rhythm is a reverie where my mind can find rest through work. A scrap of fabric becomes a line–one that is held, cut, and pulled through a grid of burlap. I find myself thinking about painting as I weave this slowly stitched drawing. My fabric paintings are an earnest attempt to slow time, to hold fast in a world that seems built to commodify and consume. Their gradual realization is necessary retreat, a coping mechanism in a world that simply cannot be kept up with,” she said.

Loonsfoot-Aldred stated, “Boozhoo! I am an Anishinaabe mixed media artist from Keweenaw Bay Indian Community. Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has inspired creativity and wonder in me for as long as I can remember. I never tire of each magical encounter Lake Superior shares with me or fail to find quiet solitude and unspoken inspiration with the land that surrounds me. It is my home and has been a place of incredible growth and healing. In this space, through the act of painting, I contemplate cultural/personal identity, generational trauma, environmental awareness, and colonial ideologies that continue to shape the world I live in. Creation is my way of honoring and expressing these relationships, of acknowledging and holding indigenous values that have been lost and revived. I seek to reconnect with daily rituals, traditions, and teachings that are inherent parts of who I am as well as the uncomfortable and clarifying moments of evolution I make while on this journey. Balancing physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual parts of my being within this context is a story of continual reconciliation and transformation. Each painting chronicles the celebration and expression of gratitude for the gifts, lessons, and beings shared through this cycle of life as well as the roles I live with the passing of the seasons.

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