Artist Profile for Jane Baldridge

We all go through life collecting friends and anecdotes. If we are at all aware of our surroundings we absorb even more. My artwork is about the stories I have acquired over the last 40 years. It is about the people I have met and admired. The stories of my family are mostly made up from scraps of memorabilia they left behind.

We all have stories, rich family histories, struggles, romances and adventures. Some are harder to tell than others. I have many stories left to tell but while doing them I occasionally wish I was just contemplating space and color for abstract compositions instead of dealing with stories that sometimes break your stride if not your heart.

In creating her computer-generated, artistic visual "stories" Jane Lawton Baldrige uses collected materials as diverse as newspaper clippings, family relics, bits of lace and dead roses. She explores traditional collaging, computer collaging, Gicleé printing, Iris printing and different substrates for printing. Her resulting art is strikingly different from work that you will see from other artists.

Education

• High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Houston TX
• California Institue of the Arts, Valencia CA
• The Alfred G. Glassel Museum School of Art, Houston TX
• Community Arts Center, Wilmington NC
  

Teaching

Jane’s teaching experiences include: Computer Art - Hoggard High School 1999; Computer Art - Snipes Elementary School 1995, 1997; Computer Art - Montessori School, 1996; Arts in Education, 1996; Arts in Education - Sienna Heights Collge, 1988; Columbia Community Education, 1985 - present; Brooklyn Artists Association, 1985-88; Art Goes to School, 1987.