Instructor: ESTHER MATHIEU

ESTHER MATHIEU

Esther Mathieu is a writer and artist from Queens, NY, based in Salt Lake City, UT. Esther holds an MS in Environmental Humanities from the University of Utah and a BA in Environmental Planning, Media, and Design from Colby College. She has completed fellowships awarded by the Mellon Foundation, the American West Center, the Episcopal Church, and more. Her work is primarily concerned with ecologies, mythologies, queer and disabled identities, and senses of place. Esther's work spans form, including photography, collage, illustration, book arts, and hybrid written forms. She is engaged in the creation and investigation of in-between spaces, where one world bleeds into the next and strange junctures and symmetries are created by the ambiguity. Whether studying and photographing wetlands, creating strange worlds through the woven images of collage, or constructing books of many kinds, Esther is interested in building worlds where the strange is given space to breathe.

Esther's work has been exhibited and published in venues and publications including the Salt Lake City Public Library, the Green Loop, the Colby Museum of Art, 2006! A Space Oddity, Salt Lake City Craftoberfest, carte blanche, A Public Space, and more. She was Artist-in-Residence at the Taft-Nicholson Center in 2023, and in 2024 she was the winner of the Peter White Public Library's 3-Day Chapbook Contest, judged by Diane Glancy, and a runner up for the Wishing Jewel Prize.

ESTHER MATHIEU is currently teaching:

Class Title	Semester	Date(s)	Program
Atlas of the Self: Discovering Art Through Personal Geography	Summer	5/14/25 - 5/28/25	Lifelong Learning
Self-Discovery Through Poetry	Summer	5/17/25	Lifelong Learning