Elaine Fraticelli

Written By Candace Garlock

Plaster Feet, Rocks, Paint, Wood

Dear Body,

Turn me off shut me down quiet my rage

as best you can

but you'll never forget the mistake that gave me so much life.

Move on if you want

I'll still be

a rock a stone a root

solidified into what you did,

shooting lightning in your head.

"As above so below"

- so below as above -

"as within so without" without,

the one you love.

I hold the last stubborn reminder

as both hostage and abductor.


You've gotten strong enough to carry the weight

but wait,

I'm still yelling.

You told me long ago

that I would be QUIET. Someday.

Yet here you stand on me

like I'm permanent

like I'm a part from you

a part of you.

I've since gone further than I've been before

my anger never changing, memory never erased, 

yet my weight means less

and less 

and 

less

Elaine Fratielli learned to love art from her grandmother Judy at an early age and used it to process difficult events through her adolescence. She got her BFA from the University of Montana in 2016 with lofty goals of someday exhibiting at the Venice Biennale in order to influence and heal the world with her art. Facing personal tragedy and grief soon after, her work and life became heavily political and she began applying psychological therapies to her art practice. After a year of personal activism and grief she was drawn to the question of human resilience and the human power of survival. Using the ability of art and media to access subconscious emotions, Fraticelli invites us to witness our own grief and hold it as proof we are capable of unfathomable love as we move forward; together. You can see her work at https://elainefraticelli.com/

Elaine taking the lead during the drawing session, April 13, 2026

Candace Garlock

As an artist, Candace Nicol Garlock uses an array of mediums in her work. The coalescence of printmaking techniques, painting, photography (and sculpture, too!) overlap and converge with color, texture and line in a collaboration of mixed, experimental beauty. With her appreciation of the interconnectedness of everything, she elevates relationships: human and environment, human and animal, human and human. She writes, “my multilayered compositions posit engaging questions to viewers regarding relationships, social identities, and societal issues surrounding the female gaze.”

Garlock's mentorship in student advancement, both artistically and professionally, as well as her engagement and participation in community events makes her a true ambassador of art. She draws inspiration from the collaboration of those around her, through the interplay with students, and continually is organizing collaborative projects. A renown printmaker whose work has been shown nationally and internationally, she has received multiple awards including the Reno Tahoe Artist Best in Sculpture/3-D Artworks in 2022, Best of Show and Best in 2D Mixed Media in 2023 and Best in 2-D Artworks in 2024, the Nevada Regents’ Creative Activity Award in 2017, the Nevada Arts Council Artist Fellowship in 2009 and an honorable mention in Printmaking Today in 2008, a review of fine art printmaking in Abruzzo, Italy. Nicol’s work can also be seen in 100 Artists of the Male Figure by E.Gibbons. Her work is included in many prestigious collections including the Kinsey Institute, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, Nevada Arts Council, and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.

https://candacenicolgarlock.com
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