Paige Edson ('19 Creative Writing & Painting)
Painter and Poet
Paige Edson knew from an early age that she wanted to be a writer. At eight years old, she was composing song lyrics in her free time and as she grew up and went to high school, she found joy in painting and writing poetry.
Paige’s work, her poems and visual art, both play with the intersections between mediums and explore what it means to navigate the world and communicate from within a body. She is particularly interested in artist’s books and their ability to combine elements of sculpture, painting, and text. It is exploring areas of connection and contradiction between mediums that motivates her work. She often plays with sounds and movement within a moment of her daily life or with conversations between people.
“There is a spiritual quality that draws me into writing, it has so much to do with getting quiet and looking inward at how I feel and then trying to untangle that feeling and put it on paper,” she said.
Paige is thankful for both the creative writing department and the painting department at KCAI, both teaching her how to expand her practice and explore deeper within her practice. She was recently accepted into Brooklyn College to receive her MFA in Poetry and will start the program in the fall of 2023.
“I realized after so much time that poetry is such an essential part of who I am and what I do. And I am so grateful for the creative writing department, they are all intelligent, kind and warm people, and they want you to do what you want to do.”