2025 Artist: Carrie Moulton

As Arts Marathon artists we will send a different example of our creative process and work to everyone who sponsors us, five days per week during April. We invite our friends, family, colleagues and anyone else who cares about art and wants to support Bridge to Rutland’s important work to sponsor us. Together we will help welcome new Americans who, in turn, will add immeasurably to our communities.

Carrie‘s Arts Marathon Goal

This is my second year participating in the Arts Marathon. Since the last Arts Marathon, I’ve been a bit distracted with the combination of divorcing and dating taking up a fair amount of my creative brain. So I don’t have a ton of new work. But this year, more than ever, I feel compelled to use my various talents for some good. So I’ll be cobbling together paintings, drawing, and sewing from this year, as well as older prints and drawings, with some poetry and other who-knows-what to break things up.

Carrie‘s Background

As I mentioned last year in my bio, I come from a family of both self-taught and well-trained creative folks. I am mostly self-taught, primarily because I have a hard time taking direction or following instructions. I’m undisciplined. I find when I “try to get better” at doing something creative, it takes the joy out of it for me–and I end up being frustrated or doing nothing. I’m much more creative and productive if I just muck along at my own pace, without regard for what other folks might think about my process or product.

Now, right now, in this age of the digital morass and political extremism, and with the specter of techno-fascism (and in spite of the limits my divorce and dating put on my creative energy) I feel more than ever the need to create–foremost as a means of allaying my anxiety and staying connected to empirical reality. And also staying connected to what is beautiful and true, despite the disconcerting recent political events. I feel most alive when I am off devices and actively engaged in the day to day of my life: riding my bike to BART as the sun rises, cleaning my house, sitting with my cat, walking and talking with friends. And making something–anything–that connects me to what seems beautiful, peaceful, genuine, real.

Art Samples