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About Suzanne M

Suzanne Morlock is a Jackson Hole based intermedia artist who exhibits internationally and maintains an active schedule dividing venues between experimental and traditional settings. Influenced by early training in Los Angeles, she now looks to the rural surroundings of northwestern Wyoming for an introspective influence on her work. Her work has been in group and solo exhibitions throughout the West and the world beyond, including France, Germany, Iceland, Poland, and Turkey. Most recently, she was featured in Sculpture Magazine (March 2012) and in 2012 was nominated for a United States Artists Fellowship and a Contemporary Northwest Artist Award.

Flags of Hope

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Installation on Glenwood at Simpson, in Jackson, WY

“Flags of Hope: for a greener future”, a community public artwork that seeks to bring us together and to imagine a greener future! The “Flags of Hope” will be flying this summer to inspire us to sign up for the 100% Green Power Program through our local electricity provider, Lower Valley Energy (LVE).

Suzanne Morlock is a local artist and the inventor of this project inspired by Vista 360°. She has been working with students this spring and now with local community groups to complete the over 140 flags! This fun and magical printing process is an amazing way to make prints using the sun!

This project started this past January through a collaboration between Vista 360° and Jackson Hole Public Art to engage youth through a thought provoking and community facing piece of artwork to “cause folks to wonder what it is and why.”

“Our idea is that those who make solar printed flags are investing in the idea of a greener future through the power of art in public. We hope this artwork will catalyze engagement and sign ups for Lower Valley Energy’s 100% Green Power Program.”
-Suzanne Morlock 

The printing technique uses an alternative photographic process called cyanotype, invented in the 1850s and used to make blueprints before more modern techni    ques. Each one of the local print is mounted on recycled sheets from hotels in town. The sewing has been donated by the Jackson Hole Quilt Guild.

This project is supported by the NEA, an Arts for All grant, the Wyoming Legislature and the Wyoming Arts Council, Vista 360°, and Jackson Hole Public Art.

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Use this QR code to sign up for green power with Lower Valley Energy!

https://www.lvenergy.com/energy-efficiency/sign-up-for-green-power/