The pressing need to take account of the wounded state of all living systems is pivotal in my work, plus a focus on the interior life of people living in a fractured world, disconnected from Earth’s cycles. I like to push space around by juxtaposing colors, playing the second dimension off the third. George Tooker, Max Beckman, and Giotto were early influences. I graduated from the Boston Museum School in 1990 with a focus on Drawing.
—Carty Bledsoe
Starry Night Revisited is a playful, cartoon spin-off of the familiar Vincent Van Gogh masterpiece painting Starry Night, illustrating the transition from the outdated era of dirty fuel, polluting industries and “throw -away”, wasteful consumerism to a brighter, cleaner today of a renewable energy economy and sustainable way of life.
Nancy Muse is a full-time, county-wide, elementary visual arts specialist in Lauderdale County Schools, serving 1,000 students per week at four schools. Over the years, she has taught music and art in the Shoals area community, including private lessons in piano, banjo, and guitar and has also organized community arts events and conducted art workshops and camps for children and adults.
