ALL: Master Collection List
Nationality
American
Preview
Date of Work
2023
Medium
Ink on paper
Signature
bottom right
Height
9 1/2"
Width
7"
Collection/Provenance
Art & Design Study Collection
Status
On Display
Location
Skalicky Tech Incubator 2nd Floor Gallery
Artist Bio
Xavier Pastrano eared his BA in Creative Writing from Southwest Minnesota State University, his Masters of English from the University of North Dakota, and hs M.Ed from the University of Sioux Falls. He currently resides in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with his wife and son, where he teaches high school English and College Composition. When not writing, teaching, or reading, he enjoys needing out about music and films, spending time with his family, making zentangle art, and playing in his band Skin of our Teeth. Published works include the chapbooks XXX: Thirty (Prolific Press), Seeing Sounds (Harsan Publishing), and Hey Kid (self published). Individual poems appear in the anthologies Thunderstomrs and The Scandalous Lives of Butterflies (Scurfpea), and South Dakota in Poems (South Dakota State Poetry Society).
Additional Information
This work was featured in Pastrano's debut exhibition, MEDIGRAPHIA.
Pastrano invented the word "medigraphia." The prefix "media" means "care" or "peace" and comes from the Latin word "Meditari," which means "ponder/meditate." The suffix "graphic" in Greek means "write or draw." Included in the 2023 exhibition, Beyond the Horizon.
Condition
Excellent
Rights
Images are provided for educational purposes only and may not be reproduced for commercial use. Images may be protected by artist copyright. A credit line is required to be used for any public non-commercial educational purpose. The credit line must include, “Image courtesy of the University of North Dakota.”