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about me
Ava Werner is an artist and educator. Ava has been working in Collage and mixed media for most of her career as an artist. She feels the art form is particularly relevant to our time. As print slowly diminishes its impact in the world, using printed ephemera and collecting it has become a small obsession. Using that ephemera and appropriating those images speaks to our values and intentions as a culture. The printed image also speaks to our shared history and the transitory nature of our reality. Ava’s work has been exhibited at The Shirley Project Space in Brooklyn, NY. She has participated in a number of residencies, some of the most influential has been the Scanz Conference residency in New Zealand in 2015. At this residency she had the privilege of spending time with the Maori at Parihaka in New Plymouth, NZ. During that residency, Ava and her partner Jim Werner created the Waterlinks Project which is ongoing. She has her MFA from Pratt Institute and a Masters of Education in Art Education from Columbia University in New York. She is a full-time Lecturer in the Art and Design Department at Cal-Poly in San Luis Obispo. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally.
Ava currently, lives and works in the Central Coast of California and is very fortunate to see the Pacific ocean everyday.
apwerner@calpoly.edu
Instagram: avawerner3849
Instagram: waterlinks2018
Gallery Representation: The Shirley Project Space, Brooklyn, NY