Captain’s Log: Installation in a Box

Artist Katie Loesel (photo credit: Matt Hovey)

Katie Loesel grew up on Lake Erie in Erie, Pennsylvania. She is a 2007 graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, Ohio, where she received a BFA in Printmaking. Upon graduation, she received the Agnes Gund Traveling Scholarship Award. She now lives in Essex, Vermont and teaches printmaking at Burlington City Arts Print Studio 250. She has exhibited her work at the Bundy Center for the Arts in Waitsfield and at Kasini House in Burlington. Katie is a printmaker, bookmaker, drawer, crafter, cyclist, and sailor, amongst other things.

Loesel writes about her artmaking: “Events occur constantly, simultaneously, inside and outside of our consciousness. Aspects of space and time do not affect the existence of these events. Whether or not the events occur in real life or they are just imagined in the context of the mind, memory is the only thing that makes them real after they have happened. Memory can be seen in gesture, mark, and pathways. My work is what records these events, what keeps their memory, and allows them to grow. The cause and effect of each event are interconnected, nothing is totally alone. Space and place, forces, passageways, landscape, and mark depict the journey of memory and events over a period of time. Memory is a narrative, a history created by the mind.”

Loesel is the winner of the 2008 Vermont Contemporary Art Annual Cover Award, and the publication of this “installation in a box” is part of that award. The Vermont Contemporary Art Annual showcases the work of Vermont artists. Each year, the publishers select one artist to be featured on the cover. That artist is given a publishing contract.