StortzArt

 As I sit in my studio on this cold winter day, my chair is propped closed to the stove as I warm my toes.  I slowly look around the 900 sq. ft. studio I am aware that I love to create. 

I see a series of collages that I created in Alaska, altered books used in processing my latest thoughts and passions, wire sculpture figures inspired by Alexander Calder, mixed media figures, photographs altered with watercolor, a stretched canvas painting of a rose, block prints on wood, machine sewn fabric collages, a painted portrait of my son when he was 4 years old, collages of myself when I was a child, two large landscape acrylic paintings stapled to plywood that I currently am working on, handmade paper, monotypes clipped to a rope clothesline, bits of metal and pieces of wood to create the next bit of jewelry or assemblage.

I am fortunate to have art in my life everyday and be in the company of other committed artists.  Presently I teach 3-7 days a week.  This includes a large home school group ages 5-14, special education art classes-EBD and ASD children, workshops for middle school and high school students at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts and summer camps, after school classes and adult classes in Orono and Delano. I believe everyone needs art and art can be healing. My Studio is open twice a month to adults interested in creating with a variety of media and I am a member of the Delano Artist Guild, which meets monthly at my studio.

My husband, a woodworker, decoy carver and artist and I live on an Organic Farm in Montrose and have raised 2 healthy boys who are pursuing their dreams.