[…] several years I have been focusing more of my free time on painting, mosaics and beadwork on deer skulls. This year I have finally published my website, made business cards and gotten some gallery exposure. In the summer of 2016 our family vacation stumbled upon the Door County Plein Air Festival in Wisconsin. That […]
[…] to fear of aging, and fear turns to loathing. Loathing turns to blindness, making the aged invisible. As I age, I embark on a series of self -portraiture. I stand against society’s fear and loathing. I make myself VISIBLE. We are the sum of our parts... Every moment, every person, every experience turns within […]
Columbus Ohio native, I was a Sargent in the Army from 1973 - 75. On retiring as an ER nurse, I decided to take some art classes through the VA. This photo is dedicated to my Mother, Patricia Newlon, one of the 1074 Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) who were the first women to fly […]
[…] doing this since I was old enough to sit upright. Our mother put her three young sons, ages 3, 4, and 5, in front of a fish -bowl of an early TV set we had; she gave each of us home-made, scrap paper pads, pencils and crayons, and told us to do what that […]
[…] It was there I purchased my first real camera I was stationed at nearby Nelis Air Force Base where I was an avionics technician on the F -111A fighter- bomber. Two years later, when stationed at Da Nang air base Vietnam working in munitions, I made my choice to attend Ohio University, knowing my […]
[…] SD), Hiroshima International Amateur Film and Video Festival (Hiroshima, Japan), Arte Gras Visionary Arts Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland), Hochschule Für Bildende Künste Dresden (Dresden, Germany), and Gallery Twenty -Four (Berlin, Germany). I have performed are SPACES (Cleveland, OH), Café Voltaire (Chicago, IL), Contemporary American Theater Company (CATCO) (Columbus, OH), Cleveland Performance Art Festival (Cleveland, OH), […]
[…] Colin Dearth, Ken Frick, Robert A. James III, Daniel King, Patrick Paquin, Veronica Shields, Mary Skrenta and Ray Wollschleger. The second body of work is a site -specific national collaborative art installation to honor the innate resiliency of our active duty, veterans, military families and caretakers. Starting in May of 2022, to honor Mental […]
ARTIST STATEMENT I am also a pho tographer who uses film. While developing a roll of film I had the thought that I don't take the physical negative around to show it to others. I instead convert it to a "positive" in the form of a digital scan or print in order to display. […]
[…] BIO MJ Cooper is an African American artist based in Columbus Ohio. When she caught meningitis as a child it was a traumatic experience that spurred her to create art as a way to cope with the side effects of the illness. When she recovered she used art as a way to express the […]
[…] this day, I'm still inspired by nature and landscapes, water and rain. I obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Early/Middle Childhood Education from The Ohio State University 1979 -1987. While at OSU, I took an art class and realized I liked painting. As a self-taught artist, I let my creativity flow, trying not to have […]
[…] Her professional art training began in 1981 and ten years later exhibited her first textile art works. The past 30 years of teaching and lecturing guided her towards her favorite process, stitching together her take on an historical event. The focus is mainly on the part Africans in the Americas played. The inspiration is […]
I am a narrative art or s tory quilter. Quilting has been one of the most popular forms for Black women to tell our stories, sharing injustices and the lack of equality in this country. We will never stop telling our stories. The history of African American women in the United States often not […]
