Artwork copyright Wendy Franklund Miller. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2023.

Artwork copyright Wendy Franklund Miller. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2017.

Between Night and Day, 1986

Wendy Franklund Miller
(American, born 1943)

Location: Ocosta Elementary School, Westport

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Between Night and Day is part of artist Wendy Franklund Miller's series of artworks about her experiences with insomnia. She notes, "My own insomniac frenzy ran parallel to the anxiety, frustration and confusion more generally felt from the enormous amount of input we all receive each day. My work attempts to translate this into something understandable."

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Ocosta School District.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Spokane-based artist Wendy Franklund Miller creates art using a variety of materials and techniques, including artist-made papers, encaustic paintings (made using melted wax), printmaking, and ink drawings. Her artworks explore a visual language of forms and symbols and is "mostly focused on discarded objects with all their implications for our civilization."
Franklund Miller was born in North Dakota and raised in Yakima, Central Washington. After art school and college, she settled in Spokane, Eastern Washington, where she has lived and worked since 1976.