Adrienne Momi

The current trend in higher education values the interdisciplinary approach.  My work focuses and refines that idea, merging dualities:  Scholarship and art; the inner and the outer self: the masculine and the feminine.

For forty years, as a professional printmaker, bookbinder, painter and hand paper maker, I have exhibited my work internationally. Recently, I have made monumental site installations that illuminate our relationship with the environment, and delve into the collective unconscious of our culture. Pursuing my art making and research, I have lived in Florence, Italy; Brno, Czech Republic; and Çatalhöyük, Turkey.

Books are my favorite studio format because they are magic: instruments of intellectual growth, vehicles for exploration, and eyes that peer into other dimensions, even other universes.
Conceptual art is my other love because if requires a commitment--psychological, as well as physical--to process. Monumental earth sculptures, miles of paper at the seashore, in the forests, and huge spirals at ancient sacred sites, are my temporary--destined to be absorbed by the earth--projects. Communicating with the universe in a "big" way, these projects have changed lives, and fostered new ideas in their viewers as well as in their maker.

For twenty years, I have also taught art, humanities and mathematics and researched myths that date as far back as the Anatolian Neolithic.  My teaching responsibilities have extended from the Mythological Studies Department at Pacifica Graduate Institute to the Women's Studies Department at the University of Missouri St. Louis, and the Mathematics Department at St. Louis Community College. I have also presented numerous papers, lectures and workshops through international conferences and continue to teach watercolor and imagination classes.