Marlene Mancini Frost
Marlene Mancini Frost, a Canton Ohio native, studied art at Kent State University and at Pennsylvania State University. She was chairman of the Art Department at Washington High School in Massillon, Ohio and later she taught in the Art Department at Kent State for over 30 years. She has lectured and given workshops on the batik process and on fabric art at the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Ohio Designer Craftsman conference in Columbus, Ohio; the Art department, University of Arkansas, Fayettville , Arkansas; and the Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.
In addition, she has taught at the department of Fine Arts, Louisiana State, Baton Rouge, Louisiana and at the Council Grove Craft School in Missoula, Montana.
She has shown her work at the Lattavo Gallery, Hudson, Ohio; Walsh University, Canton, Ohio; The Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio; The Canton Cultural Center; the Massillon Museum; Penn State University; and the Zanesville Art Center.
Artist’s Statement:
My more recent concerns as an artist reflect my growing awareness of man’s reality as spirit in an illusory world. My textiles are allegories which contain symbolic references to human conflict and frustrations in a senseless and limiting world. Man’s time in this world can be likened to a dream from which ultimate release awakens him to his infinite spirit, beyond form. By assembling and attempting to relate unexpected and discordant visual elements in unlikely contexts, I strive to convey that spiritual transcendence.
Barn, 6.5 x 5 inches, thread and fabric marker