Artist-in-Residence: Meghan Rosing

Throughout her residency, Meghan Rosing will be working in her studio in the main area of the library during Studio Time and her artwork will be on display. She will lead programs for kids, teens, and adults.

Meghan describes her art as follows:

My art-making is rooted in “scrap work,” layering leftover bits of paper and fabric that might be found in a pocket or trash can. I base my scrapwork on the way that children create from whatever material is at hand. In my work, buildings, household objects, toys, and even the natural landscape take on a life of their own. My childhood homes and landscapes populate this dreamlike world, as I awkwardly fit the experience and identity of my adult self back into my child self’s consciousness. In my images, scale shifts as a small body is dwarfed by surrounding objects, or a giant body squeezes into confining spaces. My work demonstrates that the way we experience the world when we are very young remains familiar but also incredibly disconcerting to our adult minds. By revealing the uneasy coexistence of the adult and child selves, my work urges us to enter again the inner places we think we already know.