Mudmittens is a collaboration between Lori Swartz and Patty Bilbro exploring new and old mediums through questions of identity, time, death, presence, and connection. Their collaboration is also the perfect excuse to dress weird and do bizarre things.

Lori Swartz began as a metal smith, creating sculpture, furniture and jewelry. Her current body of work includes abstract paintings that simplify chaos through the application and subtraction of acrylics, oils, spray paint, crayons, drawings, and any other material that lends itself to mark making. She is also a writer and a performer of circus arts. She has one loyalty (art), with multiple expressions.

Patty Bilbro has been a ceramic artist for over 30 years, honing the craft of the medium to create finely designed functional ware, and narrative sculpture. Her disassembled and reassembled sculptures use stream of consciousness to express personal and collective symbolism in an attempt to simplify complexities and reflect universal concepts. Patty often tricks people into thinking that she is more serious than she really is.

You can find both Lori and Patty’s work in galleries and private collections across the United States and internationally.