Jan R Carson
Loveland, Colorado
I work exclusively with silk fabric, creating wall art and kinetic sculpture.
Message
Jan R. Carson is an artist working in Loveland, Colorado. She received an MFA in fibers from Colorado State University. Born in Oklahoma, her education also includes a Bachelor of Art and Bachelor of University Studies from Oklahoma State University, and a student printmaking internship through the OSU Art Department with Universal Limited Art Editions in New York.
Carson is the artist-owner of Moon Lily Mobiles, Inc., specializing in original mobile designs. Her site-specific aerial sculptures have been commissioned by Kaiser Permanente, Centura Health, and Rideout Cancer Center, among others. In 2018, she was awarded the Grand Prize in the Arrow Five Years Out Challenge for her pairing of textile art and LED light. Her work is featured in the books Dimensional Cloth: Sculpture by Contemporary Textile Artists by Andra F. Stanton (2018) and Bojagi: Design and Techniques of Korean Textile Art by Sara Cook (2019). Carson’s five-paneled illuminated work, The Screaming Dreams of Flowers, is now held in the permanent collection of the City of Loveland, Colorado.
Statement
My art is rooted in transformation, in the motions of growing, shifting, and becoming. Through ephemeral forms like butterfly wings, falling leaves, and the gradients of seasonal change, I distill moments of beauty and disintegration, capturing the delicate interplay between loss and renewal.
My work is a search for reconciliation—a way to bridge the vastness of existence with the intimacy of life’s fleeting moments. It is an invitation to reflect on what is within and around us in order to find meaning in ever-changing states of connection and impermanence.