Soul Food Gallery

About The Artist & Writer

Arianne (Air) Taylor

HI, EVERYONE,

I’M ARIANNE TAYLOR AND I ALSO GO BY AIR THESE DAYS FOR SHORT. SPEAKING OF SHORT, I’LL KEEP THIS BIO SHORT AND SWEET BECAUSE YOU CAN FIND SO MUCH OF ME IN EVERY BRUSH STROKE AND WORD WRITTEN WITHIN my most recent collection, The Soul Success Medals for Humanity. AND AS THE OLD ADAGE SAYS…WHEN YOU GO DEEPLY ENOUGH INTO YOURSELF, YOU FIND EVERYONE.

SO TO EVERYONE WHO EXPERIENCES My WORK AND FEELS LIKE I MADE IT JUST FOR YOU, I DID.

I MADE IT JUST FOR YOU AND I MADE IT JUST FOR ME.

I MADE IT FOR US.

IT’S VERY MUCH WHAT I CAN OFFER IN SERVICE TO THE HIGHER GROUND, FORWARD MOVING EVOLUTION OF THESE TIMES.

ALMOST NINE YEARS AGO AFTER A MEDICAL EMERGENCY, I TOOK THE UNIVERSE UP ON ITS INVITATION TO START MAKING THAT ART COLLECTION I HAD IN MY NOTEBOOK.

SO, AS A STAY-AT-HOME PARENT, I STARTED DOING JUST THAT FROM MY BASEMENT AND HERE WE ARE. IT FEELS GOOD TO BE ABOVE GROUND.

I CURRENTLY LIVE AT PEACE IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST WITH THE TWO LOVES OF MY LIFE: MY INCREDIBLE HUSBAND, Ben AND OUR awesome DAUGHTER, joy.

I have just been hired as a teaching artist in Residence with lane arts council in Oregon. I’m truly excited to embark on this new career adventure.

I believe we can start where we are with what we have to create good art and good lives. I look forward to helping teachers and students connect to their creative selves in an empowered way that delights them.

For seven years prior to my emergence as an artist, I made creativity and compassion the foundation from which I taught middle school language arts and US History in the public school system. i was even honored with a student nominated local teacher of the year award in the midwest.

From 2008-2023, my work has exhibited at length in the world class cities of Chicago, Eugene and Sedona with My two full length, immersive art and writing experiences.

Before being donated to the clinic waiting room of HIV Alliance here in Eugene, My second collection which honors the resiliency of the human spirit, The Soul Success Medals for Humanity, was featured on the cover of Sedona’s Red Rock News.

My first collection, (virtual experience coming soon) Aorta Transformata: an artistic depiction of the heart through openness, love, death, rebirth and the ability to love again exhibited in Chicago from 2008-2011 where the then Mindful Metropolis, stated it “resonates on a universal plane”.

AS A PRIMARILY SELF-TAUGHT ARTIST, MYSTIC, RESILIENT COMPLEX TRAUMA SURVIVOR AND ALSO THE FIRST WOMAN TO GRADUATE COLLEGE IN MY FAMILY, IT HAS BEEN AN ACCOMPLISHMENT OF A LIFETIME TO CREATE THIS BODY OF WORK.

IT HAS ALSO BEEN MY PLEASURE. I HOPE IT NOURISHES, EMPOWERS AND DELIGHTS YOU FROM THE INSIDE OUT.

WITH LOVE, PEACE AND UNDERSTANDING,

ARIANNE (AIR) TAYLOR

ALL PHOTOGRAPHY BY BEN TAYLOR