Shelley Cords-Swanson all video
Shelley's creative background and her family
2:27 Shelley's journey through college as she discovered her passions and spent time figuring out her career.
- parks and rec
- cartography/geography
- quilting
11:05 Combining her skills as a cartographer and quilting to create wall-hanging quilted maps that represent nowhere in particular most of the time
12:00 Building furniture out of things she harvests and salvaged materials
12:40 What Shelley loves about maps in general and why she loves quilted maps
15:40 The physical purpose of Shelley's works
18:21 The messages that Shelley's pieces convey to the viewer(s)
20:20 How Shelley's background as a teacher fits in with her work
22:10 Shelley's take on what it's like to be a geographer in today's world
26:41 How living in rural Minnesota affects and influences creativity
28:17 The rural Minnesota art community and art in the Twin Cities
33:18 The Internet and its place in Shelley's work -- or lack thereof
35:12 How farms and farmers in Shelley's community perceive her work
36:51 Shelley as a regional artist
- what being a regional artist means
- her relationship with the cities
- how her art is sometimes displayed
42:13 Shelley discuses one of her recent shows
44:44 Shelley's experience teaching quilting
46:18 Where her ideas come from and her creative process
53:30 Shelley's experience doing commissioned work
56:39 Shelley's connection with art history and it's connection to her own work
