Lindsey Friman is a 49 year old collage artist and designer living in Alameda, CA. A dual UK/US citizen, they spent early childhood in Edinburgh, Scotland moving to the US at 12. Lindsey earned undergraduate degrees in Fine Art and Art History from Gettysburg College, & an MFA in Interior Architecture & Design from NESAD/Suffolk University. After heading West to the Bay Area, parenthood, and a personal collage practice were the focus of the next 14 years. Lindsey has deep family roots in Alameda; Her grandparents, aunts and uncles all graduated from Alameda highschool. Her great-aunt was Miss Alameda 1942, and her Great Uncle ran Peerless Bus Lines across the Bay Area for decades.
In September, 2023 Lindsey was invited to a collage residency through KOLAJ Magazine. They spent a week in Sanquhar, Scotland with ten other artists investigating how place can be defined and celebrated through collage. The Sanquhar Book Project, forthcoming in Spring of 2024 will feature their art and thoughts on the residency and also how this experience in Scotland continues to inform their practice. Today, with the launch of Back To The Base, they are continuing this celebration of place, and transitioning a long and fulfilling personal collage practice towards public diffusion as a working artist. Their work can be found, prints purchased and inquiries made through INSTAGRAM: @late_bloomer_alameda
Lindsey can typically be found wandering around the naval base, scavenging, dreaming, creating, and getting closer every day.
Emily Breunig is a writer and educator with a fascination for oral history and storytelling centered around place. She has lived in Northern, Central, and Southern California, Texas, New England, China, and Sweden. She earned a BA in English from Yale University and an MFA in Writing from St. Mary’s College of California. In previous lives, she has taught composition to community college students, served as an English-Language Arts expert for a CA-based K-12 science curriculum, and created in-depth research presentations for K-12 school boards across the country.
During the first years of the previous administration, she was one-half of an oral history project focused on recording the stories of educators in a changing political climate, Small Stones. While a community college professor, she incorporated oral history assignments into developmental writing courses so that students could preserve and amplify the stories in their own communities.
She has lived in Alameda for 7 years now with her family, the longest she’s lived anywhere, ever. She is also completing work on her murder-mystery novel set on a community college campus, REQUIRED MATERIALS.
Back to the Base: Narrative Collage and Decommissioned Histories 