Artwork copyright Wendy Franklund Miller. Photo courtesy of the artist.

After the Wedding, 1989

Wendy Franklund Miller
American (born 1943)

Location: Sidney Glen Elementary, Port Orchard

About the Artwork

After the Wedding is a digitally manipulated photograph by artist Wendy Franklund Miller. The imagery features colorful forms and patterns characterized by pixelated textures. The artist notes, “It is about a comical moment in our family. We had all worked very hard with the wedding of my niece. When it was all over, I felt as though I had 'lost my head.’”

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with South Kitsap 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.