Please feel free to contact the artist. Private commissions are available and encouraged, (in many different media). This site will be updated from time to time with different images and content. We are attempting to provide an overview of the artists work and content- philosophic and technical. The artist has worked in public art and the edges of popular design for a number of years and has created an oeuvre that is somewhat challenging to portray. He was a partner in a famed folk music club, Charlotte's Web, in Rockford, IL. This club presented the pantheon of American folk musics; Doc Watson, Odetta, John Hyatt, Jean Ritchie, Steve Goodman, Stan Rogers, Rosalie Sorrels, U Utah Phillips, Vassar Clements, John Hartford, Mimi Farina, Malvina Reynolds, McCoy Tyner, and many many more. An early career with letterforms were credited with influencing the visual designers for A Prairie Home Companion. Promotional anti-design work for the bands Wilco, Soul Asylum, Willie Wisely were widely reproduced. The artist was a curator for Prince at his club Glam Slam in Minneapolis (where he and Brian Miller of the staff, produced one of Miles Davis' last gigs), as well as designing environments for the legendary rock club First Avenue. He was also a principal designer for the famed Loring Cafe. In Seattle, WA his work has been utilized in public art, and the well known cafes of Uptown Espresso, and graphic design for the weekly papers of Minneapolis and Seattle and private commissions. His public art has been featured on different occasions in many cities and is stylistically marked with a balance of ornament, or a stark yet harmonic minimalism, often with a subtle sense of humor.  His work is shown internationally and his musical improvisation devices have been performed in Europe and the US. He is currently (still) working on an minimalist opera that revolves around an original folk tale with archetypal sound and characterization.

All materials used in the creation of this current work, are of the highest archival content. When there is framing included, it is by the artist, and generally hand-leafed in what is termed open-leaf. The leaf work will retain all handprints and handling to reflect in time, a patina of all of its life, as there is nothing used to seal the surface. Giclee work is of the highest quality scanning and archival printing methods available, courtesy of Ariseditions in Seattle. His work is also available at Crow Valley Pottery & the Magpie on Orcas Island, WA. The artist feels that the high quality artist canvas is best suited for reproduction. Sometimes the series known as Refugees of Fundamentalism, will be handcoloured different from the original, these works will sell for slightly more than the giclee edition, and can be considered as separate unique works of art equal to the original. The availability of these cannot be assured. We welcome all of your comments.

Thank you

Arvid Wagner ©2005