Mel Kolstad + GLC Willow Creek

Mel Kolstad is an artist, speaker, instructor and arts advocate who makes her home in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. She is a collagist, printmaker, and papermaker, specializing in collages incorporating hand-dyed papers and fabrics, and forms of printmaking including intaglio, pressure prints, gel prints and linocuts. She is also delighted to be a member of ArtSpace Collective in Oshkosh; Free Range Art in Grafton; Open Door Artists in Fond du Lac; and Wisconsin Craft. She is the volunteer curator for the Langdon Divers Gallery, located inside the Fond du Lac Public Library. She teaches various art classes to people of all ages, all around the state.

In the past year I’ve been creating what I call my Forest Floor collages - large and small pieces that resemble the forest floor and are made with hand-dyed (by me) papers and fabrics. I’ve been wanting to do a residency in tandem with creating these pieces! To be able to take a whole year and focus on the changes in weather, climate, sunlight, etc and the effect on my artwork would be wonderful.