Artwork copyright Wendy Franklund Miller. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2017.

Artwork copyright Wendy Franklund Miller. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2017.

Echoes of a Natural Kind, 1986

Wendy Franklund Miller
(American, born 1943)

Location: Ocosta Junior-Senior High School, Westport

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Artist Wendy Franklund Miller created Echoes of a Natural Kind by layering handmade papers made from cotton and wildflower pulp. It shows the animals of the Pacific Northwest such as brook trout, fox, elk, antelope, bears, and Trumpeter swans. It also shows the environments in which these animals live: mountains, plains, sky, and water.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Ocosta School District.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Spokane-based artist Wendy Franklund Miller creates art using a variety of materials and techniques, including artist-made papers, encaustic paintings (made using melted wax), printmaking, and ink drawings. Her artworks explore a visual language of forms and symbols and is "mostly focused on discarded objects with all their implications for our civilization."
Franklund Miller was born in North Dakota and raised in Yakima, Central Washington. After art school and college, she settled in Spokane, Eastern Washington, where she has lived and worked since 1976.