Linda VanArtsdalen is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice interweaves printmaking, alternative photography, and slow stitching into a thoughtful exploration of nature’s quiet intricacies. Drawn to the textures, forms, and patterns found in her surroundings, she works with botanical materials and cyanotype chemistry to produce evocative pieces that reflect both organic transformation and meditative craft. Linda currently resides in Western New York, USA.
Most photos by Mark J. Watts
Affiliations:
Alternative Photography.com
Flower City Art Center
Print Club of Rochester
Dove Block Project
Wood Engravers Network
Selected Exhibitions
2026 Flower City Art Center - Under Pressure, Under Light - Roc.
Country Lawyer Gallery - Shared Currents - Phelps NY
Schweinfurth Art Center, Made in NY - Auburn NY
Flower City Art Center, Wall to Wall - Rochester NY
2025 Dove Block Project - Reflections, Geneva, NY
Lumiere Photo - Small Show 2025- Rochester, NY
Alchemy & Light, Flower City Art Center - Rochester, NY
Country Lawyer Gallery of the Arts- Phelps, NY
Flower City Art Center - Rochester, NY
2024 Alternate Paths - Lumiere, Rochester, NY
Mad Printers - Dove Block Project, Geneva NY
Art Of the Book - Rochester Public Library, Rochester NY
Print Club of Rochester, RIT Gallery, Rochester NY
Sensations of Light - Dove Block Project, Geneva NY
Artist trading card trade - Create Art for Good
2023 Small Works, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs NY
Alternate Paths, Flower City Art Center, Rochester NY
Print Club of Rochester, Bevier Gallery (RIT)
Mad Printers at Flower City Art Center, Rochester NY
Rest Gallery, Ithaca, NY
Wall to Wall, Flower City Art Center, Rochester NY
6 x 6, Rochester Contemporary Art, Rochester NY
2022 Alternate Paths, Flower City Art Center - Rochester, NY
Mad Printers, Studio 402, Rochester, NY
Textile Study Group of New York - Gallery 25
Wall to Wall, Flower City Art Center, Rochester NY
2021 Cyanotype, Flower City Art Center, Rochester NY
Photogravure, Flower City Art Center, Rochester NY
2019 Textile Study Group of NY - Gallery 27
Print Club of Rochester Group show, Rochester NY
ROC Darkroom Club show, Rochester NY
2018 Wall to Wall, Flower City Art Center, Rochester NY
2017 Textile Study Group of NY, RED, Noho-M55 Gallery, NYC
Textile Study Group of NY, Gallery 23
Fiber of our Being, Center for Crafts, Worcester MA
2016 Fiber of our Being, JCC Gallery, Parsippany NJ
2014 Felt Retrospective, Horsham Library, Horsham PA (Solo exhibition)
2012 Creation Myth, NE Feltmakers Guild
2010 Horsham Regional Fine Arts Show, Horsham PA
2009 Whats Out is In, NE Feltmakers Guild
Horsham Regional Fine Arts Show, Horsham PA
2007 Philadelphia Guild of HandWeavers, Philadelphia PA
Publications & Collections
2025 Alternative Photography Art and Artists Edition 2
Order, Disorder, Reorder - Fibre Arts Take Two
2023 Mokolito Print - “Maxwell Bay” 3/3 VE , Zea Mays Print Collection
2020 "The HAND" magazine for reproduction based art, Issue 28
2019 "The Language of Making" - TSGNY Press
2017 "Red", TSGNY Press, ISBN9781546999942
2008 North American Felters Network Newsletter, Making Felt Flowers, Sept.
Teaching
2025 Discover Cyanotype, Flower City Art Center
2022 Silk Paper Making, Flower City Art Center, July
2019 Weavers & Spinners Guild of Naples NY, Guest Speaker, Cyanotype, November
2019 Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY, Celebrate the Sun, Cyanotype on Fabric
2009 Philadelphia Guild of Handweavers, Felting Workshop
2004-05 After School Fun Program, Blair Mill School, Horsham PA Shibori and felting