Baylee Schmitt crocheted the childhood bedroom she shared with her twin
Many artists paint, draw and sculpt representations of their childhood environment. Not many, and none that we know of, create near accurate representations with a crochet needle and yarn, however.
But that’s what artist Baylee Schmitt does; and her latest collection “We settle into corners with dust and mites" which replicates, to scale, her childhood bedroom — is currently on display at the LaiSun Keane gallery in Boston, MA, through Feb. 16.
Baylee Schmitt's "We settle into corners with the dust and mites," at LaiSun Keane. Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
Schmitt earned her master’s of fine arts degree at Miami University and now manages the University of Cincinnati printmaking lab at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (DAAP) and teaches there as well.
An interview with Schmitt — with colorful photos of her art works suspended from the ceiling and anchored to walls — was recently featured in the Boston Globe with a Q & A format. The article highlights Schmitt’s artistic approach, her technique and a backstory of growing up as a fraternal twin, shy and artsy compared to her sister’s social and athletic bent.
“I have always been an artsy kid,” she told the Globe of chosing childhood memories as her genre.
According to the biography on the LaiSun Keane website, Schmitt has exhibited work with solo exhibitions at River East Gallery in Toledo, OH, at LASC in Lexington, KY, and the Fitton Center for Creative Arts in Hamilton, OH. She has also participated in group exhibitions at Design TO in Canada, Ohio Craft Museum in Columbus, OH, Sanitary Tortilla Factory in Albuquerque, NM, and Gallery 130 at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS.
Read the Boston Globe article in the “Working Artist” section.
Feature image at top by Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
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