ARTIST STATEMENT

How can art protect our Inner Child that learns all things in a chaotic world? In my recent body of work, RE(DIS)COVERY seeks to respond to this question, connecting with the soul and rekindling all of the various reasons that I was inspired to be an artist before adulthood. The nature of copper intaglio is one that involves the covering and stripping of a metal surface to expose a particular image. This focused exposure is etched and eventually printed on soaking wet paper, a very fragile and delicate material. Each scene explores a unique moment of healing and is accompanied by passages of the most translated book in human history. 

My platform seeks to heal, to combat the injustices of intergenerational trauma, and to promote cross-cultural understanding. The imagination of people worldwide can embrace healing through experiencing art, one story at a time.

BIO

 Cara Marie Young is an artist from Atlanta, Georgia based in Detroit, Michigan. Her current interdisciplinary practice is an evolving response to the human experience, concerned with racial injustice in America and the reality of life in her own skin. The artist seeks to engage with the community around her, recently exhibiting work at the 101st Michigan House of Representatives in 2022 and 2023, at Olayami Dabls Mbad African Bead Museum and at The Feminist Art Museum in 2020. She was an exhibiting artist and speaker in the Race Forward Facing Race Conference in Fall 2016 at the Hilton Atlanta and a Dean’s Diversity Fellow at Wayne State University from 2019-21. The artist recently exhibited artwork at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American history from July-December of 2023 and at the Wright’s 2025 60th anniversary gala. The artist continually seeks to engage with new opportunities in the future.