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Astri Snodgrass
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Visual artist & educator. I think through my hands ✍️🧶🧵🪡🇳🇴🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 she/her
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Come see what I’ve been working on alongside five other artists in our community. House on Fire is open now at The Common Well in Garden City. My piece will be changing over the course of the show— come see me work today and tomorrow at noon.
A length of white paper on a concrete floor. The end of the paper is cut into fringe. On the left side, the paper reads repetitive text: “give me give me give me”
August 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Every translation is a transformation. This scroll has the lyrics to Lillebjørn Nilsen’s «danse, ikke gråte nå» in Spanish, English, and the original Norwegian. I remember listening to this song on cassette as a kid. It was one of the first songs I could understand in full as I learned the language.
A red, white, blue, and lavender hand painted scroll unfurls to reveal text in Spanish, English, and Norwegian
July 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Just finished deinstalling at the Boise Art Museum. A bittersweet end of the most significant show of my career. Here’s a vid that shows the internal armature.

I already have more paper pillars in the works, repurposing some of the PVC armatures for the next show.
July 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Ancient history need not be a mystery.
A scroll of white paper with red writing stands on end on a desk with both sides curled and a big swoop unfurled between them. Behind is a loom and more scrolls.
July 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Warping is the hardest part because I do it only about once or twice a year. Weaving is tricky when you have so many interests!
Dark and light blue threads are chained and wrapped around the front beam of a floor loom. The ends have been threaded through the comb-like part of the loom, called the reed.
July 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Getting some help from one of my fellow artists-in-residence, Janell Strouse, today, to get my Boise Art Museum show professionally photographed. This is my unprofessional iPhone selfie as she’s hard at work doing her thing shooting the work 📸

The show is up through July 13th.
#contemporaryart
A white woman with short blonde hair, glasses, and red lipstick smiles in front of painted paper scroll towers
June 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Cosecha. Harvest. Ekphrastic alt text on carrots I forgot to thin.

In Norwegian,
carrots are gulerøtter.
Gule + røtter.
Yellow roots.
Vegetables? Grønnsaker.
Grønn + saker.
Green things.

#vegetablegarden #poemdiary #norsk #multilingual #freeassociation
Light shines through a window. It is morning. Baby carrots that didn’t grow very big because I forgot to thin them are backlit. They look like drips of ink spilling down into the roots. I notice the roots have little hairs coming off of them and this strikes me as very cute. The carrots’ little feet dip their toes in water. A cup is backlit and turned on its side. It reminds me of a moon.
June 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Moral compass
Oral comfort
Comfort food
Moral courage
choral cordage
choir twined together
wire binds up ties in pyres
fire burns
smoke signals
to point the way
north.
My studio wall detail shot: a weaving in mostly greens with yellow-white fringe hangs on a dowel. Pinned to the side like a brooch on its chest is a drawing on a grid. The drawing in red ink white negative space and graphite is both graphic and textual: MEWE reads the compass, offset and weighed down (smooshed). A calligraphic script reads “moral compass”. Around the weaving hand other text-drawings concrete poems and hanks of green handspun wool yarn.
June 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Cosecha. Harvest. So much life happens in a bathrobe.

#multilingual #superpower #growingstrawberries #diarypoem #dagfordag
Three strawberries in a hand that wears diamonds. Table linens in happy colors. Fuzzy bathrobed arm. Bare foot of a human animal with pedicure on kitchen floor, grounded. Life is good.
June 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Summer studio themes: translation, transliteration, poetry, musicality, community, comfort, thread. All things that touch me.

#studionotes #artstudio #drawings #poetry #weaving #fiberarts #translation
A corner of a studio with weavings and text-based drawings (concrete poetry?) on the walls. Books are stacked on top of the short wall and on a cart. On a wooden loom bench sit four cards of my artworks.
June 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Isn’t all water holy?

#poemdiary #photodiary #díaadía #daybyday #dayafterday #yesterday
A photograph shot on an iPhone in June. Succulent succulents capture water on the air of a spiderweb. A single stone stands out to me, though there are several pictured.
June 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Want to see what I’m making this summer? Stop by the Common Well tonight from 5:30-8:30 for First Friday. Surel’s Place put together a map of what’s happening so you can gallery hop to take in as much as you like.

110 West 31st Street, Garden City
June 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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“Here We Have Idaho: Material Matters, S.A. Jones and Astri Snodgrass” continues through July 13 at the Boise Art Museum.

Join me Thursday for an artist talk in the galleries, or hit me up for a private tour between now and the end of the show.

#contemporarydrawing #worksonpaper #contemporaryart
Two framed works on paper hang on a teal blue wall above a vitrine. The vitrine contains open sketchbooks and organic shaped crochet “drawings” (psychedelic doilies, if you will)
June 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Don’t miss my First Thursday gallery talk @ the Boise Art Museum this week, 5:30pm!
Framed drawings hang on a divider wall in a white cube gallery. The wall is painted a teal blue. In front of the wall is a vitrine with sketchbooks and other small works.
June 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Thank you, Houston! What a lovely welcome at the reception last night.

BOX13 ArtSpace— y’all are some lovely humans. I’m happy this work gets to call your gallery home through June 28th.

There are gallery hours today and Saturdays moving forward from 1-5pm.

#contemporaryart #worksonpaper
A white box gallery shot from the back of the room. “Spindles” of paper scrolls are suspended from the ceiling are spread throughout the space. Repeated forms of paper rolls spiral upwards and unspool a bit on two white pedestals low to the ground.
May 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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The show is up — thanks to all who came out for the reception tonight! I am beat. Heading back home tomorrow, but the work will stay here for several more weeks.
Painted scrolls of paper shot from above on a wide white pedestal. One is laid on its side and is split into fringe, with the ends spun into yarn.
May 31, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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It’s been a whirlwind install week— thank goodness I had help from a dear friend.

Houston, come on out tomorrow for the opening reception from 6-9 at Box13 art space!

6700 Harrisburg Blvd, Houston, TX 77011

#houstonart #worksonpaper
A pillar of paper is precariously wrapped around a wire form with three prongs sticking out the top. It is tapered at the top. The paper is painted with calligraphic text that reads “tell it slant”
May 30, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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poem draft:

We’d rather wake up to birdsong
than your explosions,
My English explains to the hound.
Blink if you understand.

Looking for title suggestions 🙃
A panting dog in an orange harness explores in front of a weather-worn fence gate. The gate is painted with an endearingly lopsided yellow smiley. It has rosy cheeks, heart-shaped bows(?) in hair it doesn’t have. A pine branch grazes the top of the fence. The face is, indeed, too tall for the hound to scale.
May 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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There will always be tomorrow / fresh paper new as snow / and rainbows in the colors of the clouds

#translation #comfortsong #poetry
A white woman in glasses and a Paddington-style yellow raincoat smiles. Her dog’s face photobombs the scene with worried eyes. Behind them, a rainbow.
May 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Haiku no. 2. (hai-two.)
A haiku written on a white board with trinkets and erasable markers: “EMPTY SALT SHAKER — when will I know that / I know enough? That feeling / is quite hard to shake.”
May 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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A haiku
Handwritten haiku on a key holder white board. Titled “dog-mom-jeans”, the poem goes: “I’m not not into / fashion. I just really love / hand-me-down sweatpants”
May 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Creative chaos: colorful handwriting of interlocking and overlapping notes. Calligraphy as sculpture as concrete poetry.

Shipping this work to Houston for a solo show at BOX13 gallery at the end of May!

#contemporaryart #writingasdrawing #translation
Scrolls sit upright on a studio floor. A tomato cage rests upside down the in background.
May 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Pia loves to curl into the smallest of donuts when a dog bed is available. No cushion is too small.
A big black and tan hound dog is curled up on a much too small red dog bed.
May 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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“The best art can do now is to activate in us the emotional and social muscles we’ve let atrophy in our public life: sympathy, humility, earnestness, horror. Guernica and the AIDS Memorial Quilts didn’t change minds but hearts.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-fasc...
Trump, Fascism, and What Artists Can Do
There is tension between wanting art to transcend and wanting it to reflect reality back to us. Plus: Are Dems finally ready to retire the purity tests?
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April 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Support your local public library workers’ unions.
Talk to staff.
Understand their commitment to the library.
Help them help you.
Know the differences between librarian & library associate.
See what they earn.
Learn why they’re unionizing.
Question boards & administrators on their priorities.
April 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM