THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Marilyn Lanfear

December 27, 1930 – January 19, 2020

“I am a visual storyteller who translates personal family stories into a common mythology of family generational connections. I use whatever is needed to tell my story. Subtle elements like the pattern of wallpaper, the use of traditional milk paint, or folded clothes rendered in stone, load the images with irony and symbolism not repeated in the oral tradition. Narrative is the moving force of my visual language with the history of my Texas family as the core.”

Artist and Educator. Member of the Women’s Caucus for Art, Houston chapter, San Antonio chapter and NYC chapter. Taught at the University of Texas, the University of Oregon and Lewis & Clark College.