LisaRuth Elliott is a visual artist using found material to create her paper collages. She is also a fiber artist, weaver, experimenter of plant dyes on textiles, and public muralist. Inspired by beauty in the textures and patterns around her and what has been cast aside, she transforms the banal into new and dynamic combinations showcasing human occupation. She is prompted by the stories and landscape of San Francisco, of Yelamu and its creatures, as she learns about and stewards unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land as an urban farmer and is deeply interested in the exploration and understanding of place. It infuses all of her work, from being a public historian to creating art.
In this episode we discuss what's unique in the landscapes that offer gifts of materials for creative composition, both found and grown. We also discuss seasonality and sustainability of native plant materials in landscapes, and the fact that tracking changes through time is a part of the process, listening to the materials, and having conversations through abstract/ non-representational art.
You can find and support her current and future offerings through her website:
www.lisaruthcreates.com
more up to date work on IG at @lisaruthcreates or @sfurbanwanderer.
Her collaborative poetry collage exhibition of the book
What unseen thing blows wishes across my surface? with San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck is on display at the San Francisco Public Library main branch, 6th floor:
until 16 February 2023. a collaborative poetry/collage project showcasing the daily work done during the pandemic. https://sfpl.org/exhibits/2022/11/05/what-unseen-thing-blows-wishes-across-my-surface#
and
LisaRuth isthe Irish Consulate of San Francisco’s chosen artist to participate in a global project: “Common Threads” in celebration of St. Brigid’s Day 2023. As an Irish-American using materials endemic to this place where she lives, she contributes a small part of a larger cloak/quilt to be assembled from pieces coming from all over the world and to be exhibited in Dublin in February 2023. Her textile square is made of plant-dyed silk with cotton backing using California native plants as dyes. https://www.ireland.ie/en/st-brigids-day/common-threads/
Intro Music, Irish Trad tune: The Micky Dam- guitar instrumental by Richard Mandel
of the Jammy Dodgers, https://thejammydodgers.com/Richard_Mandel.html
with Permission for MixedMedia Talks
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