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Carol Flueckiger

c.flueckiger@ttu.edu
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Art Portfolios, from 2001 to the present, convey themes of light, energy, atmosphere, nature, geography, and history. Each portfolio ponders the connection between individual, atmosphere and culture. Click portfolio for information.

Playa Wetlands

This Playa Wetland Portfolio is a series of artworks that celebrate plants of the playa wetland ecosystems within the Llano Estacado region of Texas. Cyanotype, digital printing and watercolor are blended with techniques such as dripping, negative space and continuous line. Plant specimens are gathered at the Playa Classroom in Nazareth, Texas. Outreach workshops offer group study and collaboration.

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Bicycle Cyanotypes

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[2019-Present] consists of large mixed media bicycle prints. Layers of cyanotype, tea toned cyanotype and paint created layered backgrounds that evokes temperature, sound and solar energy. Selections from this body of work was invited for a solo exhibition with LHUCA in Lubbock and received coverage in Glasstire.

Solitary Voyager; Carol Flueckiger’s Solar Paintings in Lubbock, TX, for Glasstire, Michelle Kraft, December 28, 2020

Solitary Voyager Gallery Talk Video, LHUCS, 2020

Process Video 90 sec., 2020

Solitary Voyager
Solitary Voyager

tea toned cyanotype on paper, 55x72

Solitary Voyager
Solitary Voyager

tea toned cyanotype an latex paint on paper, 55x72

Solitary Voyager
Solitary Voyager

Charles Adams Gallery, Lubbock, TX

Big Bluestem
Big Bluestem

cyanotype on paper, 55x72

Big Bluestem
Big Bluestem

cyanotype on paper, 55x72

Big Bluestem
Big Bluestem

cyanotype on paper, 55x72

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Solitary Voyager
Solitary Voyager

cyanotype on paper, 55x72

Solitary Voyager
Solitary Voyager

cyanotype on paper, 55x72

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Installing Solitary Voyager
Solitary Voyager
Solitary Voyager

cyanotype on paper, 55x72

Solitary Voyager
Solitary Voyager

tea toned cyanotype on paper, 55x72

Tea Toned Cyanotypes

[2018-Present] Notes from the Desert Aquarium is the titled of a series of tea toned cyanotypes. These are created by sunlight exposure and submersion in a bath of tea to create a brown patina. Tumbleweed and grassland specimens evoke the semi arid Llano Estacado environment.

Grasslands
Grasslands

Tea toned cyanotype on paper, 55x782 inches, 2024

Prairie Ride
Prairie Ride

Tea toned cyanotype and acrylic on paper, 55x72 inches, 2024

Llano Estacado Sunset
Llano Estacado Sunset

Tea toned cyanotype on paper, 55x72 inches, 2023

Grasslands
Grasslands

Tea toned cyanotype on paper, 42x30 inches, 2024

Notes from the Desert Aquarium
Notes from the Desert Aquarium

Wright Gallery, Texas A&M, College Station, Texas, two person exhibition

Nature
Nature

Tea toned cyanotype and ink on paper, 42x30, 2019

Solitary Voyager
Solitary Voyager

Tea toned cyanotype and ink on paper, 42x30, 2019

Dust
Dust

Tea Toned cyanotype and ink on paper, 42x30 inches, 2023

Winds out of the Southwest
Winds out of the Southwest

Tea toned cyanotype and ink on paper, 42x30 inches, 2023

Largest Sphere
Largest Sphere

Tea toned cyanotype and ink on paper, 42x30

Solitary Voyager: bicycle
Solitary Voyager: bicycle

Tea toned cyanotype and ink on paper, 42x30, 2019

Solitude of Selfie

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[2018-Present] Solitude of Selfie is a body of drawings that celebrates the 100th year anniversary of the 19th amendment 2020. Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s handwriting is digitized and cyanotyped (blueprinted) into the background of compositions about Stanton’s address Solitude of Self arguing for suffrage. History is illuminated and reworked into contemporary compositions. A workshop component of the project asks participants to take a “tour” around Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s 19th century feminist address Solitude of Self. They are asked to read, write, count and draw their way around the address. Artwork for this project integrates primary documents for the Woman’s Bible project in 1898.

Solitude of Selfie Workshop, The Poetics, Politics, and Praxis of Transnational Feminisms, National Women’s Studies Association, virtual format, Oct. 15, 2021

Humanities Now, The Humanities Center @TTU, Solitude of Selfie Project by Carol Flueckiger, Democracy and Elections, Oct. 30, 2020 (starts 10:38)

Solitude of Selfie CAA ARTexchange, CAA Services to Artists, Committee & Hokin Project, Hokin Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, Feb. 14-24, 2020

Solitude of Selfie, Women’s Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, NY, Sept. 1-Nov. 15, 2018

Solitude of Selfie, South Texas College, McAllen, TX, Ap. 26-May 30, 2018

The game’s afoot! Carol Flueckiger, Women Studio Workshop by Susan Chute, 2018

Solar Painting mixed media body of work inspired by 19th century women’s suffrage essay by Nancy Moyer, Special to the Monitor, Vida Art, The Monitor, Monday, May 7, 2018

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Solitude of Selfie

pen and digital

Solitude of Selfie
Solitude of Selfie

pen, letterpress, digital

Storm Angel
Storm Angel

Drawing/Digital, 2023

Flower Power
Flower Power

Digiital/Drawing, 2023

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Solitude of Selfie: Eyes
Solitude of Selfie: Eyes

cyanotype and pen on paper, 17x12

Solitude of Selfie: Heroism
Solitude of Selfie: Heroism

cyanotype and pen on paper, 17x12

Solitude of Selfie: Own  Environment
Solitude of Selfie: Own Environment

cyanotype and pen on paper, 17x12

Three Eleanors

[2013] Three Eleanors: A Solar Powered Paper Doll Production, is an interdisciplinary (art and theatre) devised theatre project with a colleague that was about feminist historic figure that share the name Eleanor. Artwork for production incorporates historic archives from Eleanor Roosevelt Paper Project, George Washington University and Eleanora Duse collection, special collections of the university of Glasgow library, into the compositions. The production was presented at three venues: a theatre venue, Stage Left Studios in NYC, a national park venue: Women’s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, NY and an art gallery venue, CASP art studio gallery in Lubbock, TX.

Three Eleanors: A Solar Powered Paper Doll Production Stage Left Studios, NYC, eleven performances –July 24-Aug. 4, 2013

Women’s Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, NY, July 20, 2013

Charles Adams Studio Project, Lubbock, TX, July 13, 2013

Three Eleanors by Brooke Pierce, EDGE Media network Contributor, Sunday July 28, 2013

Julia Jochner on Three Eleanors A Solar Powered Paper Doll Production at Stage Left Studios

Three Eleanors: A Solar Powered Paper Doll Production
Three Eleanors: A Solar Powered Paper Doll Production

Artwork & Design for devised theatre production, Charles Adams Studio Project, Lubbock, TX, Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, NY, Stage Left Studios, NYC, 2013

Three Eleanors: A Solar Powered Paper Doll Production
Three Eleanors: A Solar Powered Paper Doll Production

Artwork & Design for devised theatre production, Charles Adams Studio Project, Lubbock, TX, Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, NY, Stage Left Studios, NYC, 2013

Three Eleanors: A Solar Powered Paper Doll Production
Three Eleanors: A Solar Powered Paper Doll Production

Artwork & Design for devised theatre production, Charles Adams Studio Project, Lubbock, TX, Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, NY, Stage Left Studios, NYC, 2013

Three Eleanors: A Solar Powered Paper Doll Production
Three Eleanors: A Solar Powered Paper Doll Production

Artwork & Design for devised theatre production, Charles Adams Studio Project, Lubbock, TX, Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, NY, Stage Left Studios, NYC, 2013

Three Eleanors: A Solar Powered Paper Doll Production
Three Eleanors: A Solar Powered Paper Doll Production

Artwork & Design for devised theatre production, Charles Adams Studio Project, Lubbock, TX, Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, NY, Stage Left Studios, NYC, 2013

Three Eleanors: A Solar Powered Paper Doll Production
Three Eleanors: A Solar Powered Paper Doll Production

Artwork & Design for devised theatre production, Charles Adams Studio Project, Lubbock, TX, Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, NY, Stage Left Studios, NYC, 2013

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Solar Powered Paper Dolls

[2012-2017] Solar Powered Paper Dolls is a body of artwork about Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s address Solitude of Self. It is part paper doll, part history lesson and part geography lesson. I have digitized archives of feminist handwriting and paper doll graphics from American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, Library of Congress, Washington D.C. and Women’s Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls and turned them into transparencies that are used to blueprint the archives into painted surfaces, paper and fabric.

American Dream, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christy, TX, July 7 – Aug. 18, 2017

FATE 2015 Biennial: National Juried Members Exhibition, Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN, March 4-April 18, 2015

16th Annual Salon Art Club Show, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY, 24-Feb. 22, 2015

Feature Artist, Collectable Global Art Book, 2013

Drawing Center, NYC

Solar Powered Paper Doll
Solar Powered Paper Doll

cyanotype on paper on folded xerox paper, 8x6

Solar Powered Paper Doll
Solar Powered Paper Doll

cyanotype on vellum, 12x5

Solar Powered Paper Doll
Solar Powered Paper Doll

cyanotype on vellum, 12x5

Solar Powered Paper Doll
Solar Powered Paper Doll

cyanotype on vellum, 12x5

Solar Powered Paper Doll
Solar Powered Paper Doll

cyanotype on paper on folded xerox paper, 8x6

Solar Powered Paper Doll
Solar Powered Paper Doll

cyanotype on paper on folded xerox paper, 8x6

Solar Powered Paper Doll
Solar Powered Paper Doll

cyanotype on paper on folded xerox paper, 7x5

Threads
Threads

cyanotype on watercolor paper, 7x5

Solar Powered Paper Doll
Solar Powered Paper Doll

cyanotype and pen on paper, 7x5

Solar Powered Paper Doll
Solar Powered Paper Doll

cyanotype on paper on folded xerox paper, 12x6

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Process
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Process
Solar Powered Paper Doll
Solar Powered Paper Doll

cyanotype and pen on paper, 7x5

Solar Powered Paper Dolls
Solar Powered Paper Dolls

cyanotype, latex paint on paper & wood blocks, 7x5

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Thrift Store Blues

[2011] Thrift Store Blues, a dance choreographer by Val Hill for Flatlands Dance theatre production, used my artwork as stage, costume and inspiration. The dance is about the life cycle of a shirt. Cotton rags are recycled to become stationary containing words about suffrage and abolitionism. Fancy 19th century vintage paper doll graphics are printed directly onto thrift store shirts in a reverse game of paper dolls questions the standards of female beauty and fashion. How did early American female corsets dictate and hinder ideas? How does contemporary clothing do this today? Can collected cotton rags be stationary for letters about feminist history? What is the balance between images of beauty and images of handwriting that contain beautiful ideas? Photo credit: Naomi Hill

American Antiquarian Society, Artists in the Archive 25 Years of Creative and Performing Artists & Writers Fellowships, 2020

Thrift Store Blues, Flatlands Dance Theatre, Lubbock, Texas
Thrift Store Blues, Flatlands Dance Theatre, Lubbock, Texas

Artwork & Design for dance production Thrift Store Blues, 2011

Thrift Store Blues, Flatlands Dance Theatre, Lubbock, TX
Thrift Store Blues, Flatlands Dance Theatre, Lubbock, TX

Artwork & Design for dance production Thrift Store Blues, 2011

Thrift Store Blues, Flatlands Dance Theatre, Lubbock, TX
Thrift Store Blues, Flatlands Dance Theatre, Lubbock, TX

Artwork & Design for dance production Thrift Store Blues, 2011

Thrift Store Blues, Flatlands Dance Theatre
Thrift Store Blues, Flatlands Dance Theatre

Artwork & Design for dance production Thrift Store Blues, 2011

Cash Paid for Rags

[2008-2020] Cash Paid for Rags is a body of artwork that is part paper doll, part history lesson, part thrift store shirt. It is about transformation and recycling of history that ponders the relationship between inherited culture and individual impulse. I have digitized archives of feminist handwriting and paper doll graphics from American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, Library of Congress, Washington D.C. and Women’s Rights National Historical Park, Senca Falls and turned them into transparencies that are used to blueprint the archives into painted surfaces, paper and fabric. I was awarded funding to traveled to WRNHP, American Antiquarian Society and Library of Congress to visit with scholars and study early American feminist history, the Woman’s Bible, vintage paper doll graphics dress reform broadsides and broadsides that called for rag collection. Women’s Rights National Historical Park invited me to exhibit and conduct a workshop for Art Afire! Program celebrating the first women’s rights convention in 1848.

American Antiquarian Society, Artists in the Archive 25 Years of Creative and Performing Artists & Writers Fellowships, 2020

TTU CAHSS Grant, Women’s Bible Research for Art, Library of Congress, Washington DC (2500.00), 2012

Arts Afire!, Women’s Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, NY, June 19-22, 2012

Historical Prints Fact and Fiction, Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA, Oct. 27-Nov. 17, 2012

Cash Paid for Rags Artist Presentation, Annual Conference Art = Community, St. Edwards University, Austin, TX, April 8-10, 2012

Ladies First, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center, Nov. 20-Jan. 27, 2009

Faculty Development Leave, Early American History in Art, Travel to Women’s Rights National Historical Park and American Antiquarian Society, Fall Semester, 2008

Thrift Store Shirts
Thrift Store Shirts

cyanotype on thrift store shirts

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Arts Afire, Wesleyn Chapel, Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Fall, NY
Arts Afire, Wesleyn Chapel, Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Fall, NY

Cyanotype on postcards and thrift store shirts, printed from primary documents at Women's Rights National Historical Park, American Antiquarian Society, 2012

Thrift Store Shirt
Thrift Store Shirt

cyanotype 19th century dress reform broadside on thrift store shirt, 2012

Thrift Store Shirt
Thrift Store Shirt

cyanotype 19th century paper doll instructions on thrift store shirt, 2012

Thrift Store Shirt
Thrift Store Shirt

cyanotype 19th century dress reform broadside on thrift store shirt, 2012

Thrift Store Shirt
Thrift Store Shirt

cyanotype 19th dress reform broadside on thrift store shirt, 2012

Thrift Store Shirt
Thrift Store Shirt

cyanotype 19th century paper doll little Eva on thrift store shirt, 2012

Threads
Threads

thrift store shirt in ring binder, 2012

Jenny Jenkins
Jenny Jenkins

Silkscreen on thrift store shirt, printed from primary document at American Antiquarian Society, 2012

Jenny Jenkins
Jenny Jenkins

Silkscreen on thrift store shirt, printed from primary document at American Antiquarian Society, 2012

Jenny Jenkins
Jenny Jenkins

Silkscreen on thrift store shirt, printed from primary document at American Antiquarian Society, 2012

American Antiquarian Society
American Antiquarian Society

19th century Rags Wanted broadside

American Antiquarian Society
American Antiquarian Society

19th century dress reform broadside

American Antiquarian Society
American Antiquarian Society

19th century paper doll

American Antiquarian Society
American Antiquarian Society

19th century paper doll instructions

American Antiquarian Society
American Antiquarian Society

19th century paper doll

American Antiquarian Society
American Antiquarian Society

19th century paper doll

American Antiquarian Society
American Antiquarian Society

19th century paper doll Little Eva from Uncle Tom’s Cabin

American Antiquarian Society
American Antiquarian Society

19th century paper doll Topsy from Uncle Tom’s Cabin

American Antiquarian Society
American Antiquarian Society

19th century letter, Abby Kelley Foster

American Antiquarian Society
American Antiquarian Society

19th century letter, Angelina Grimke

American Antiquarian Society
American Antiquarian Society

Willard’s History of the United States

American Antiquarian Society
American Antiquarian Society

19th century letter, Sarah Grimke

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Playa Wetlands
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Solar Powered Paper Doll
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