Licia Priest: I Am We

Crafting Community in Paper Tole

Spring 2025

Opening Postponed

Since the mid 1980’s, Louisville based artist Licia Priest has been teaching art and developing a practice that brings together her experiences working in painting, fiber art, sculpture, and photography. Her most recent work emerged from a research trip to Zimbabwe where she documented the food, flora and fauna, architecture, city, rural and family life, along with views and customs of care for the elderly. Photos from this trip are manipulated, first through digital color changes, merging scenes, and alterations to line, space, and shape. Priest then cuts up and organizes copies of her treated photos into multi-layered images that create the perception of depth. Her contoured figures and stacked layers ultimately become impressive, wall-mounted, high relief sculptures.