About Bonnie

Bonnie watches the world closely and fidgets while thinking about it - and if their hands are holding a paintbrush, or a sewing needle, or a film camera, or small colored rocks, some creation arises out of those hands unwilling to stay idle. A native of small town southeast Pennsylvania, they learned the fearlessness of trying from their wandering woodworker of a father and beacon of kindness and endlessly resilient mother. At Tyler School of Art Bonnie concentrated in printmaking, alchemy, and otherworldly diplomacy, and afterwards they spent time as an intern at The Tides Institute and scholarship awardee at Penland School of Crafts to pursue printmaking as placemaking. Although they formally work as an analyst, when a storm of events shook their life loose in 2021, they were returned to their center — a maker — in order to endure. Primarily working in the intersections of fiber, photography, printmaking, and painting, Bonnie explores how life emerges from layers. When they’re not completely immerged in a project, there is no sign of them or their dog except their little camper van set up by a creek.