"Mother and Child"
Printmaking

Marilyn Westgerdes is an artist and art educator who favors exploration. In her opinion, artistic concepts shouldn’t be true to or depend on a predetermined media source. By embracing other genres, artists broaden their horizons, rather than narrow any existing ones. Therefore, two-dimensional concepts are compatible with three-dimensional concepts in Westgerdes’ art. She utilizes oils and acrylics; and she experiments with bronze, stone, and clay. A wide variety of media may be used during experimentation by Westgerdes, including bronze sculpture, stone sculpture, and ceramics; all of them are well worth trying. “Love” is often the theme of Marilyn Westgerdes.

Marilyn Westgerdes has been an art professor of Ohio University-Zanesville. She also served on the of Board of Directors of Zanesville Museum of Art and a true advocate of arts in the community.

Marilyn Westgerdes is one of the featured artists in the book: The Spirit of Art The Splendor of Life - Artistic Talents in Ohio

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