Painting Toilet Paper and the Art of Kirsten Holt Beitler

The self portrait, Wrapped Up in a False Sense of Security, by Kirsten Holt Beitler, is the subject of this artist's interview. The work which is part of the exhibition, Siloed: Art for Uncertain Times, at the Center Gallery shows the artist wrapped in toilet paper, painted during the first months of the pandemic when hoarding and bouts of consumer panic spread across the country. Beitler is a single mom of four children, an artist, and a muralist at a grocery store in St. George, Utah. In this episode, she describes how  isolation during the pandemic and personal heartbreak have become crucibles for new, wry, self-exploring works.Music for this episode is the nineteenth-century Mormon folk song, "St. George and the Drag-on," by Charlie Lowell Walker. Send us a text about the podcast.