Wildlife Artist Dawn Senior-Trask of Moonhorse Art Studio
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Visiting Artist Spreads Creative Perspective to Spearfish Students

By Kris Garlick-Beaty, The Black Hills Pioneer, Spearfish, SD

Visiting artist Dawn Senior-Trask of Saratoga, Wyoming, recently instructed Spearfish art students on how to create relief sculptures. 

For the special project, high school and middle school artists created tiles sculpted in clay, which are to be "bronzed" and assembled into a quilt pattern.  The designs are of animals, flowers and nature.

The idea directly links to Senior's artistic background.

The professional artist works with clay sculptures cast in bronze.  In working with students, she often pulls out themes that parallel the natural, wild animals, plants and dramatic landscape themes found in her own art and writings.

In addition to sculpting, Senior enjoys paining with oils, drawing, and writing poetry, novels and essays.  Her fiction, and non-fiction essays, are about her own experiences.

While at Spearfish High School and Middle School, Senior will also work with creative writing classes.

She and husband, Juel Trask, a pianist, live in a log cabin near Saratoga, Wyoming, the same home that she grew up in.  She tends to their seven horses when she's not traveling as an artist in residence through the South Dakota Arts Council.

If you would like more information on our artwork or would like to place an order, email Moonhorse Art Studio or call us 307.327.5381. We look forward to hearing from you!