Lydia Greer on Shadow Theater, 50 second sagas and collaborating with plants and people Thyme in the Studio: Art & Wellness

Lydia Greer and I discuss strategies for collaboration, the influence of Walt Whitman, printmaking, bookmaking, opera and nature on her work. She discusses her beginnings of creating punk feminist shadow theater performances as love offerings. We discuss ideas about teaching pedagogy, creating healing gardens and the exciting adventure of creating a music video for Cass McCombs. So full of insight and inspiration!

Lydia Greer is a visual artist whose layered, mixed-media work includes sculptural and video installation, hand-made stop motion animation, single and multiple channel video, puppet theatre, and works with paper. She works with themes of allegory and euphemism in narrative structures exploring the languages of psychology and theatre. From 2003-2007 she directed the LET'S DANCE SHADOW THEATRE, a handmade, ragtag puppet company in Portland, OR creating punk, feminist revisions of broadcast news and fairytales. Since then her multimedia artwork and extended cinema performance work have been exhibited and performed nationally and internationally most recently at Aggregate Space Gallery, Artists' Television Access, Shapeshifter’s Cinema, The Exploratorium Museum, and Kala Art Gallery. In 2019 she co- directed and co-created the music video Absentee for Cass McCombs (Anti Records). She has attended residencies at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Vermont Studio Center and was awarded a Kala Art Institute Media Arts Fellowship in 2018.

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