Fiber Art
April 13-May 31
Since the mid-1990s, I have explored ways to visualize interior and exterior human connections though painting and drawing. Stylistically, my work is as abstract as the concepts addressed by it. Recently I began to enlist a variety of materials including ink and thread on raw canvas as a means to explore movement in time and space. My investigation of these concepts includes creating trails through landscapes, waterways, and mindscapes.
–Jill Ewald
Jill Ewald received the M.F.A. in visual arts from The Vermont College, Montpelier, Vermont, and a B.A. from St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota. She was an art apprentice at St. Olaf for the year following graduation. From 1998 through 2013, she served as director of the Flaten Art Museum at St. Olaf College, where she has also taught visual art classes. She served on the artist panel of the Minnesota Artist Exhibition Program at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. She has received awards and grants from shows, the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council and the State Arts Board. Her work has been exhibited frequently in the Midwest at venues such as the Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, the Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN, and the Plains Arts Museum, Fargo, North Dakota. Her work was also included in the American Drawing Biennial at the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, VA, and the Westmorland Art Nationals in Youngblood, PA. Ewald’s work is also found in several public and private collections around the U.S. and in Norway and Canada. She lives with her husband Ken and works in Northfield, Minnesota. She is a member of the Northfield Arts Guild.
