Misty Granade is an abstract mixed media artist from Madison, Alabama. She believes there is magic in holding art in your hands. To provide that magic for others, she makes one-of-a-kind books (and sometimes, tosses them into the ocean), handheld art pieces, and wall hangings meant to entice people to touch them.
Misty enjoys asemic writing (handwriting without meaning), dreamy color, assemblage, paper texture, and material improvisation in her work. She’s interested in book making, eco dyeing, weaving, and crochet. She combines these interests and explores feminist themes and the blurry line between craft and art in the things she makes.
Her work in the studio is a constant dance of recombination and recycling items like found paper, sticks from her yard, cast off yarn, and her own older work. The experience of making art from these items is satisfying in its own right and nearly as valuable to her as the finished work.
Misty additionally finds deep meaning in helping other artists explore their creative journeys and views encouraging other makers as part of her calling. Sharing her processes and finished pieces on her blog provides an avenue for others to engage with her work and encourages them to make art from the materials around them.
