2020 - 2021 Mitchell Lecture Series
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Andrea Peterson’s work centers around the human relationship to the natural environment. Living and working on a small homestead created with her husband and two sons, she discovered symbiotic relationships (as well as encouraged) through studio research and developing a small farm. Andrea will take you through the cyclical understanding she experiences on a daily basis and brings forth in her work.
[Image description: Promotional poster with sky blue ad white text on a dark beige background. Close-up of two hands lifting a plastic grid from a mold and deckle. Left behind are tiny squares of paper pulp in various bright colors.]
Andrea Peterson is an artist and educator based in Laporte, Indiana. She received her MFA from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 1994 and BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently teaches the paper arts and papermaking at The School of the Art Institute in the Fiber and Material Studies Program and from her studio Hook Pottery Paper as well as abroad. She co-operates Hook Pottery Paper, which is a joint venture with her husband ceramic artist, Jon Hook. At this studio she creates her artwork, conducts paper research and production paper that is sold internationally. She is a 2015 and a 2017 grant recipient from the Indiana Arts Commission.
She creates paper art works and relief printed images on handmade sheets of paper that have utilized pulp-drawing techniques. She also creates site-specific installation work and book art pieces. She combines these efforts to make works that address human relationship to the environment Most recently her work has been collected by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Her work can be found in many private collections as a well as corporate collections such as Hollister clothing, Chicago. Her worked has been exhibited internationally such as, Beer Shiva, Israel, Deggendorf Museum, Germany, Steyermuhl Paper Museum, Austria, Scoula di Grafica, Venice, Italy; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN, Columbia College Chicago Book and Paper Center, IL, Frankfurt Library, IN; Lubeznik Art Center, Michigan City, IN. She has conducted workshops and lectures at Paper Museum in Steyermuhl, Austria, University Georgia Athens - Cortona, Italy,; Scoula di Grafica, Venice, Italy; University of Syracuse, Syracuse, NY; Friends of Dard Hunter national papermaking conferences. In May of 2019 she released her first book through her studio Hook Pottery Paper, “In the Field”, a study guide to using natural fibers for paper making.
[Image description: Promotional poster with sky blue ad white text on a dark beige background. Close-up of two hands lifting a plastic grid from a mold and deckle. Left behind are tiny squares of paper pulp in various bright colors.]