Mindy Wittock
United States
0 Works exhibited on Kooness
Current location
Upper Michigan
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Works by Mindy Wittock
Mindy Sue Wittock is an artist and mother who works out of her home studio in Upper Michigan. She makes soft sculpture that explores the intersection of childhood memory and experiences in motherhood. Wittock has an MFA from Arizona State University with a concentration in fibers. She has previously worked as an associate lecturer of art at the University of Wisconsin Fond du Lac and the University of Wisconsin Green Bay. Wittock has an extensive exhibition record and has taught many textile-based workshops. She survives on coffee, enjoys watching vintage television shows, and listening to 80’s music.
"In my work, I use sewing and stitching techniques to create soft sculptures and textiles that are inspired by the intangible phantom of nostalgia. I collect objects and cloth to build pieces and cover surfaces that explore memory of a time passed. The act of sewing, of passing each object through my hands as I embellish, is the act of preserving the limitations of memory and fusing together the past and present with each stitch.
I wish every night when I go to bed that I can wake up in my eight year old self’s bedroom and hold all my things that comforted me just one more time. If I think about it hard enough I can almost feel like I could time travel for real but then here I am… a grown up holding onto childhood and feeling my way through the foggy depths of memory, grasping at the nostalgia" - Mindy Wittock.
Select Exhibitions
2020
Touch! Featuring Mindy Sue Wittock, Caroline Liu, Millicent Kennedy, Chicago, Illinois
20/20: 20 Years of Eye Lounge, Retrospective Group Show, Phoenix, Arizona
2019
Polished, Group Exhibition, Scout Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Glitter Dotted, Two Person Exhibition with Lael Burns, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas
30x30x30 Exhibition, Juried Show, Var Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Mother+Artist, Co-Curator, James May North Gallery, Algoma, Wisconsin
2018
Abstract Thoughts, Invitational Exhibit, The Wondermakers Collective, Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
The Art of the Needlewoman, Invitational Exhibition, Langdon Divers Community Gallery, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
Artful Play, Invitational Exhibition, I.D.E.A. Museum, Mesa, Arizona
The Wondermakers Collective, The University of Central Missouri Gallery of Art and Design, Warrensburg, Missouri
Split Lip Magazine, Featured Interview for Collaborative Voices Folio
Indiana Review Academic Journal, Cover Artist, Volume 41: Number 1
Uppercase Magazine Issue #40, Cover Contest Honorable Mention, Visual Theme: Hand & Handwork, page 36
2008 Juror’s Award, “MFA Summer Exhibition,” Juror, Dennita Sewell
First Place Small Sculpture Award, National Society of Arts and Letters, Arizona Chapter
2007 Juror’s Award, “Craftsmanship: Arizona Designer Craftsman” exhibition, Juror Sandra Blain
School of Art Special Talent Award, Arizona State University
Honorable Mention, Art for Health Exhibition, Phoenix, Arizona
2004 Academic Deans Award, University of Wisconsin Green Bay
William Prevetti Memorial Scholarship, University of Wisconsin Green Bay