January Membership Meeting
Virginia Catherall via Zoom …
Virginia is a textile artist and knitwear designer of wearable landscapes. She lives and works in Salt Lake City, Utah. She is inspired by the incredible, rugged and sublime landscape around Utah, Great Salt Lake, and the Great Basin. She designs a line of knitted items inspired by the history, landscape, and art of the area. Through this process she finds meaning in landscape, a type of knitting *terroir*, that brings her home, her place, into the forefront of her life. And because of that, she has come to hone her thinking about environmentalism, conservation, and preservation of land. In 2015 she was Artist-in-Residence for Black Rock Desert National Conservation Area in Nevada and the 2016 Artist-in-Residence for Great Basin National Park. In 2019 she was Artist-in-Residence for Capitol Reef National Park. And in 2023 she was Artist-in-Residence for Glacier National Park. She has been chosen as the 2026 Artist-in-Residence for Joshua Tree National Park, stay tuned for some new desert wearable landscapes.
She is also Curator of Education at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts where she designs and implements family programs, visitor experience and community outreach. Her profession informs her work and vice versa; inspiring people to be involved in their environment, to notice the landscape, and to create art.
For inquiries about buying original artwork please email: vcatherall@gmail.com