About the Artist

Josetta Checkett is a multimedia artist whose work uses a collection of semi-narrative characters and motifs to build a visual universe exploring themes of the body, aging, and alienation. Combining text, ink drawings, linocut stamps, and oil paint, Checkett’s pieces are sardonic parodies of scenes from her everyday life. In other words, she really likes to make fun of herself.

Checkett studied studio art and art history at Kalamazoo College, with additional studies at the Oxbow School of Art and the New York Arts Program. Her work has appeared in shows in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York, and she is a recipient of the Brian Gougeon Prize in Art.

It is the artist’s hope that her work helps identify the humor in the horror of being a woman, a young adult, and a human.