Can you describe your journey as an artist? How did you end up at Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD)?I have always been an artist but when I graduated high school, I didn’t recognize art as a viable career. I spent a year in pre-veterinary medicine before I decided that I wanted an education…

How did you first become interested in fiber art? I’ve always been a very creative spirit—drawing incessantly as a child, making up stories, turning ideas into form.  I was fortunate to grow up in a home where textile traditions were still passed from mother to daughter, from sewing to embroidery and beyond.  My mom first…

What path did you take to become a professional artist? It was a circuitous beginning, but a straight line to where I am now at the same time.  Briefly, I grew up with an outdoor dad who was also a pretty decent artist, mostly a cartoonist and watercolorist, who majored in wildlife biology.  We lived…

Watercolor artist Andy Evansen judged the 2021 Into Nature: International Online Plein Air Exhibition. He curated this juried art show along with artists Marc Hanson and Judy Palermo. What path did you take to become an artist? I’ve drawn pretty much my whole life, and went to the University of Minnesota for commercial illustration courses.…