A geometric, abstract mosaic made primarily from very narrow rainbow-colored strips of wood. There's is slight dimension from some stacked pieces, including a wooden banister cap.

Pandemonium

A layered print showing a community of navy and yellow round and angled shapes patterned to give the illusion of movement.

Another Day on the Info Transit

Paper cut art consisting of a black sheet of paper with negative space cut out to form the image of a human face smiling enigmatically with ornamental details on the head and around the neck.  The design is inspired by the Bayon Temple in Angkor Thom, Cambodia.

Bayon Smile

Paper Collage, Envelope Art: Turquoise blue horizontal business envelope. Black and white paper life insurance junk mail creates horizon, Small red "V" shape atop. Blue as sky. White as ground. Red as Butterfly. A bright, simple statement.

Hello Butterfly

A 3-Dimensional wire used to make a contour face is resting upon a rough texture of faded whites and purple cotton fabric. The  silver wire creates a unique shadow of the face beneath it depending on the angle of the light. The wire face lies oblique on the canvas looking right at the viewer.

Space Case Friend

A photo captured inside of three connecting dark window panes surrounded by a large dark border. Through the window the viewer sees dark green vines on the window, with trees, fog, & an outline of a building in the background. 

Nature’s Outlook

Red canvas rectangle printed with a white hosta leaf that is angled from the top left and navy blue vertical lines attached to a black canvas with an overlay of black tulle stitched onto the burlap with 5 stitches of heavy blue thread and extending onto the black canvas.

Hosta 2

A woman stands in a doorway, peering out at the viewer. A cloaked figure sits just outside of the door. The figure symbolizes death/memento mori - a reminder that death is inevitable.

Death's Door

 this collage has three female faces above a large blue tampax machine.  lots of tampons and  small red squares fill the background.

Her period from 1966 to 2013

A collage including magazine clippings, old photographs, and transfer pens exploring ideas of change and disruption.

Floating

A nice view of Blues and Taupe coffee cups warming your early morning coffee 

Start The Day

A collage showing a wolf pup wearing a black tracksuit with white stripes.  He’s standing in front of a white wall painted with bold, colorful stripes.  There are four green stars surrounding him.

Paulie Wolfnuts

It is a baby monkey dressed in a suit with suspenders.  Colorful and bright baby blue eyes.  A white button down shirt with suspenders.  The definition of monkey is off to the side and the word baby is colored with colored pencils jumping off the page in color.  

Baby

An image of an open space held for a toppled barn, on the edge of a field of grain in late autumn, growing from land made of orange paisley, under a yellow, ominous sky with threads of lightning and grey, oily clouds.

Midwest 1

This is a collage was from a series on that began with carefully dried daisy petals, which were tricky to work with and glue down onto the Color-aid paper. The background is a an Epson archival inkjet printed digital pattern drawn in Adobe Illustrator. A postage stamp and other papers were chosen to complement the color palette and content, and the text (species name) was typewritten on Rives BFK paper.  

Ox-eye Daisy

A talisman of protection, created from found rust, vintage silver medals, brown leather scapular, with hanging African gray metal curved hook artifact, metal turtle, carved cream natural stones.

Reliquary of Protection

Look into a living room scene. Man lies dead on couch being eaten by cats. In background a woman has fallen dow. The stairs and lies on floor. 

Dying to Go Out

The image is based on a photograph of my elderly mother.  I've added a textural background with collaged paper and floral fabric elements to the square artwork.  

Mumsy

Pastel and Watercolor Sketch of a Small Child Wearing Cookie Monster  Pajamas Standing At A Window With An Image of a British Soldier in a Gas Mask Outside.

Small Child Wearing Mask At Window

The mixed media canvas illustrates the sheer joy.  possibilities and high hopes for a first born son whose life was cut very short as a very young man.

First Born c. 1953

An mosaic image of a bee created with seeds and grains in the center of a canvas board. It is natural colored with black, cream, and tan tones. The corners of the piece feature a honey comb motif. 

Collage of handcut prints of photos of the Minnesota capitol building, with the individual pieces of the old building reassembled to make a new one. White marble building with multiple domes and odd angles, surrounded by wildflowers and trees.

A Capitol Dream II

Two light blue surgical masks stretched diagonally across a panel form an X over an abstract painting of a white form in front of a green and ochre background. 

Cancelled Abstraction

A 3 dimensional abstract painting with vinyl brush stroke paint marks and thread sewn into piece. Colors are pastels and neons.

Blue Skies

A 1" deep black frame containing multiple colored Autumn leaves cut into small butterflies  

This is what we have done

A whimsically dark collage of a Cecropia Moth, beatles, billy bobs, thistles, and carnations. Inspired by the short beautiful life of a cecropia moth. 

The night of the Cecropia Moth 

Mixed Media Collage of 1950's hollywood type sitting atop a circular ViewMaster reel Titles Move Stars, Hollywood. Space like circles balance out the area

Starlet

A Mixed Media Image of A Young African American child Asleep with headphones with a Brightly colored Graffiti background on as he listens to the songs of some of Legendary African American Musicians such as Whitney Houston, Lisa Left Eye Lopez, Louis Armstrong playing the Trumpet Michael Jackson, Biggie Small, Rick James, TUPAC, Etc as Marvin Gaye looks on from the right hand corner with two doves encircling the the child.

JUST LIKE MUSIC

An abstract sculptural wall hanging with a fluffy blue fabric pillow floating above a polka-dotted and green duct tape rectangle with yellow 'legs' leading to round, white puffy cloud shapes.

Baby Driver

My submission to this decades’ 4 MIA Foot in the Door is a 12x12 in board of Minnehaha Falls circa 1906. Inspired by an old hand tinted postcard and done in mixed media, including tissue paper, string and the plastic screens of a flatscreen T.V. which have been clipped and painted and spaced withscrapbooking spacers. When looked at in person, the T.V. screen parts have differing effects, some Mirror, some magnify and some opaque that change with the order of the layering. This helps the viewer see movement in the waterfall and creek below. The Creek almost seems to flow at the viewer. The falls might leap out , and the people stand out on either side of he wooden bridge. 

Thank you Susan Kangas


Submission: Minnehaha Falls Multi-Media

An illustration of three woman in a forest huddled around a ritual knife. It is starting to snow. One of the women is looking at the viewer as if they are witnessing something they should not. The woman have long wild hair and the knife is dark with something. The art style is sketchy and painterly, an eerie, hazy red-black and yellow-green. 

Pandemonium, 2020

Stacia Goodman