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 ’90, MA ’93 | June 5, 2017
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Hike and draw
While living and working in Cleveland, cartographer and illustrator Karla Sanders, BS ’09, MS ’12, spends weekends exploring Cuyahoga Valley National Park with her husband, designer and photographer Andres Quintero. That’s where the idea of “Hike and Draw” 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 ’11, and her boyfriend, mural artist Victor Ving, are living indefinitely out of an RV as they travel cross-country for “Greetings Tour” – a project that yields painted murals based on the “Greetings from” 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, “Carry Me Ohio,” the first of several documentary book projects Matt Eich, BSVC ’09, has undertaken in communities across the nation. The book series, titled “The Invisible Yoke," refers to the unseen legacies—like extraction industries and racism—which still influence people in these places. Eich tells the story behind each image, all of them drawn from “Carry Me Ohio.”
