Current Exhibition

Material Girl

Casper Wyoming Artist Abigail Schneider is Western's featured artist in the Art Gallery on campus for the Month of April. Schneider’s exhibition: Material Girl will be on display in Western’s Art Gallery from March 20, through May 1. Abigail will be on campus to attend a reception of her exhibition in the Art Gallery, as well as to give an artist lecture about her work, on April 16 at 4:00pm in room 1302 on Western’s Rock Springs Campus. A gallery reception will follow the lecture at 5:00pm.

Growing up in Casper Wyoming, Abigail Schneider attended Casper College where she received an Associate of Arts (AA) degree. From there, she went on to continue studying Visual Arts at the University of Wyoming where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Degree focused in Printmaking. Later, Schneider attended Ohio University where she received a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Printmaking. Since completing her graduate studies, Schneider has returned to Wyoming with her husband where has worked at a non-profit Art center and is currently splitting her time making art and working as a legal assistant.

Schneider is a multimedia artist who has exhibited work nationally and internationally. With just over two decades of experience knitting, and several years working with printmaking, book arts, and papermaking, she expertly manipulates multiple art media to create both two- and three-dimensional artworks.

About her most recent work, Schneider says that:

“Ever since I was a little girl, I have been fixated on the “material”. At the age of 6, I learned to sew. At the age of 8, I was knitting. I was 11 the first time that I made paper. Even throughout all of my formal art education, I was obsessed with fibers. I felt inextricably linked to these “women’s crafts” that have been passed down to me. Now, I am no longer a student, nor really a girl. I find myself wanting to pay homage to the girl that once was – the girl that became the woman I am so proud to be today.”

 

 

For any questions about this show, the Art Gallery’s programming in general, or to purchase artwork featured in the exhibition, please contact Ben Nathan at bnathan@westernewyoming.edu.

 

To learn more about Western’s art program, visit westernwyoming.edu/academics.