Boreal Birch: Medium and Content

A visual exploration of the boreal birch as material and content in artist books and box constructions


by Margo Klass

Margo Klass made Fairbanks, Alaska her home in 2005. Here she creates mixed-media box constructions and artist books inspired by the unique sense of light and space in the Alaskan landscape. Influences in her work include medieval art and Japanese aesthetics. She has received awards from the Rasmuson Foundation, Alaska State Council on the Arts, and has been Artist in Residence in Denali National Park and on Bureau of Land Management’s Wild and Scenic Rivers. In 2015 she received the Governor’s Individual Artist Award. Her work is in many public and private collections. Publications include Double Moon: Constructions & Conversations with texts by Frank Soos. margoklass.com