Joelle Cook (she/her) is an American artist and writer, based primarily on the West Coast. A military kid who grew up in different places around the country, Joelle graduated from the University of Washington, with a BA in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts and Creative Writing. She works primarily in printmaking, creating animal-based designs. Joelle's creative work focuses on symbiosis and relationality in the natural world. Outside of her art and writing, she likes reading, listening to rock music, making tea, and exploring the world with friends and family.

Follow her on Instagram at @wolfprintsart

Email her at joellecookart@gmail.com

I am a visual artist and author who grew up living all over the country. My resulting peripatetic lifestyle has introduced me to a plethora of different ideas and contexts, giving me the ability to take on new forms in response to the world around me. Living a life of constant movement has driven me towards a creative expression focused on forms that are collections of shapes which make up a whole creature. I work primarily in printmaking and drawing, creating geometric designs of animals that I rearrange into new contexts. Placing my shifting shapes into new mediums creates evolution. They take on new sizes and colors, which ensures that every piece, every new speciation, is different.

My creations focus on symbiosis and relationality in the natural world, and how form follows function in both the humanities and the sciences. I explore interspecies interaction in an interdisciplinary, multi-media manner. I use poetry and visual art to investigate the worldbuilding of natural and manmade ecosystems. Understanding biological relationality with an artistic and creative frame of reference nurtures wonder, encourages problem solving, and leads to new discoveries. My art is an expression of the ways the biological world and the architecture of manmade forms overlap, and how that lends to a new kind of worldbuilding driven by this mix of natural beings and hard shapes.