Linda VanArtsdalen has been creating for over 30 years. Her most recent work has been in printmaking and alternative photography often with a fiber component.
She finds inspiration for her art from her observations of the natural world which she incorporates into her work. Originally from Philadelphia, she currently resides in Western New York. Linda works as a Software Analyst.
Most photos by Mark J. Watts
Affiliations:
Flower City Art Center
Print Club of Rochester
Zea Mays Printmaking Studio
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Alternate Paths 2024- Lumiere, Rochester, NY - October
Mad Printers - Dove Block Project, Geneva NY - September
Art Of the Book - Rochester Public Library, Rochester NY - August through November
Print Club of Rochester, RIT Gallery, June-July
Sensations of Light - Dove Block Project, Geneva NY - April
Artist trading card trade - Create Art for Good - February
2023 Small Works 2023 at Main Street Arts in Clifton Springs NY - November
Alternate Paths 2023 at Flower City Art Center - October
Print Club of Rochester, RIT, Bevier Gallery, June
Mad Printers at Flower City Art Center - June
Rest Gallery, Ithaca, NY, June
Flower City Art Center, Wall to Wall, March
Rochester Contemporary Art, 6 x 6, April
2022 Alternate Paths 2022, NuMovement, Alt Photography, November
Mad Printers at Studio 402, Rochester, NY June 3-July 1
Textile Study Group of New York - Gallery 25 Spring (online tsgny.org)
Flower City Art Center Rochester NY Wall to Wall - March
2021 Flower City Art Center - Cyanotype - June
Flower City Art Center - Photogravure - April
2019 Textile Study Group of NY - Gallery 27 - Fall
Print Club of Rochester - members show - FLCC November
Flower City Art Center - ROC Darkroom Club, Winton Library, Photography
2018 Flower City Art Center - Wall to Wall, Photography
2017 Textile Study Group of NY, RED, Noho-M55 Gallery, NYC
Textile Study Group of NY, Gallery 23, Fall 27 online
NE Feltmakers Guild, Fiber of our Being, Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester MA 9/29 - 11/17
2016 NE Feltmakers Guild, Fiber of our Being, JCC Gallery, Parsippany NJ. November - December
2014 Felt Retrospective, Solo exhibit, Horsham Library, Horsham PA
2012 NE Feltmakers Guild, Creation Myth
2010 Horsham Regional Fine Arts Show, Horsham PA
2009 NE Feltmakers Guild, Whats Out is In
Horsham Regional Fine Arts Show, Horsham PA
2007 Philadelphia Guild of HandWeavers, Annual, Philadelphia PA
Publications & Collections
2023 Mokolito Print - “Maxwell Bay” 3/3 VE , Zea Mays Print Collection
2020 "The HAND" magazine for reproduction based art, Issue 28
2019 "The Language of Making" - TSGNY Press
2017 "Red", TSGNY Press, ISBN9781546999942
2008 North American Felters Network Newsletter, Making Felt Flowers, Sept.
Teaching
2022 Silk Paper Making, Flower City Art Center, July
2019 Weavers & Spinners Guild of Naples NY, Guest Speaker, Cyanotype, November
2019 Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY, Celebrate the Sun, Cyanotype on Fabric
2009 Philadelphia Guild of Handweavers, Felting Workshop
2004-05 After School Fun Program, Blair Mill School, Horsham PA Shibori and felting