JO RICHARDSON

visual artist

MY  STORY

Art is my passion - I don’t choose that word lightly.  And I don’t mean: I heart art.  I do – I love the process of making art and I love engaging with and experiencing the art of others – but when I say: “Art is my passion,” I’m using the original definition of passion, from the Latin: to endure; to suffer. 

All artists, I’m sure, carry the scars of creation: paper cuts and X-Acto cuts, chemical burns, hot glue burns, soldering iron burns… not to mention sleepless nights.  But Art is responsible for more than just a bit of physical discomfort to its maker. 

Too many times to count, for the sake of Art, I’ve packed a backpack full of art supplies and journeyed off – alone – toward places unknown; places where I didn’t know another soul, places where I didn’t speak the language.  For Art I lived in an office cubicle for a month, “cooking” all of my meals in the lunch room.  For Art I worked in a factory, I carved tombstones for pets, I served as the live entertainment at a lavish dinner party.  For Art I fell from high places – naked.  Once, I even ran into a room full of toxic smoke.  And, most recently, I wrote blog posts (!); all for the sake of Art.

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For over two decades, Art has forced me to go way past all of my boundaries and pushed me completely out of my comfort zone - which is why I wake up excited to do it again, every day.

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In that time I also moved from the Pacific Northwest to the Mountain West; collecting a BS and a BFA in Fine Art, a Master's in Architecture, and a husband and son along the way.  I currently live and work in lovely Lafayette, Colorado.

"Art is... a shared human connection that traces the possibilities of past and future in the whorl of now."

- Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects

CONTACT ME

Lafayette, CO, USA

303.246.3996