Patricia Savanick Anderson
Artist Patricia Savanick Anderson, COTA, trusts the patterns in artwork to provide insight into the matrix of life. She has created art most of her life. She thanks her high school art teacher, “Doc” McGaughey, for teaching her the fundamentals of design. She honed her color use by completing a series of spiritual oil paintings as a protégé of Marilyn Summers Cool in the Women’s Art Registry (WARM) Mentor Program. Creating commissioned house portraits has earned her supplemental income. Daily, she gathers inspiration from the energy of young people, the living history of elders, the color use of Rothko and Rembrandt and illustrator Eric Carle. She has emerged as an artist through the development of her Collage Collaborative™, a public art project in which she collaborates with neighborhood members to create artwork that promotes their community. She uses her teaching and occupational therapy background to facilitate group interview and painting sessions for the Collage Collaborative that are accessible to community members of all ages and abilities. Pillsbury House and Theatre’s Chicago Avenue Project has depended on her artwork since 1999. Ms. Anderson earned an Arts on Chicago grant in 2012.
She is proud of surviving four decades of Minnesota winters and lives in downtown St. Paul with her writer husband Mark, and cats Joe Meower and Gardy.
Artist Statement
My artistic process has been a godsend throughout my life. In fact, art helped me recover from an eating disorder by transfiguring my pain into beauty.
and The Third Place and MCAD Professor Natasha Pestich
with support from the Ward 8 Council Office of Elizabeth Glidden