Cait Maltbie and Annie Hutchins
Cait Maltbie is an emerging artist who was born and raised in Madison, Kansas. Their current works focus on childhood memories and how we cling to these memories and actively alter them in remembering. Through printmaking, textiles, and sculptural work they strive to recreate moments from childhood in order to invite the viewer in and for them to reflect on them in the perspective of a ‘grown up’. Cait received a BFA in Printmaking from Emporia State University in 2021 and is currently pursuing their MFA from @etsu.
Annie Hutchins is a visual artist from Raymond, Mississippi. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Mississippi in 2020. Hutchins is currently a Master of Fine Arts candidate @etsu in Johnson City, Tennessee. Memory, nostalgia, and feelings of home inspire her work. She is exploring the intersection between printmaking and textiles in her art.
Exhibition Details
As adults, we often look back to the fond memories of childhood that comfort us. We hold on to objects that transport us back to a time before we felt an immense weight and pressure to change: to become something that we are not. It becomes comforting to know this is a widely shared experience of nostalgia and there are tangible remnants and residual traces of the person we used to be. Objects of our past can be a well-loved doll, a baby blanket, or a stuffed animal—all of which come from a certain era of popular culture, the past, and our youth. The goal of my work is to communicate the bittersweet longing for a past childhood gone. For this show I am channeling that nostalgia through a small collection of kitschy screen prints to look like stickers that decorate the wall and three Beanie Baby crayon drawing that are taking in the view of the gallery.
Follow Cait on Instagram at @fairly_caitlin
Follow Annie on Instagram at @Annie.hutchins