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After the Storm

Artist: Shumaker, Ashley

Object Date: 2016

Medium: Ink on paper

Imperial Dims: Overall: 48 x 58 in.

Department(s): Mental Health

Supervisorial District: 4

About the Artwork:

The renovated facility for the Long Beach Mental Health Center serves over 4,000 clients annually ranging from children, adolescents, families and adults to provide psychiatric, early intervention and clinical services. To further promote the Department of Mental Health’s mission statement of “hope, recovery and well-being,” the LA County Department of Arts and Culture's Civic Art Program developed a curatorial approach that focuses on artworks that provide warmth, contribute to the healing process and reduce stress. The 18 works in the collection are by local artists, with an emphasis on abstract work evoking the California landscape and include artists Betsy Lohrer Hall, Brian Hollister, Margaret Lazzari, Kimiko Miyoshi, Leo Rivas and Ashley Shumaker.

About the Artist:

Ashley Shumaker is a printmaker and mixed media artist from the Pacific Northwest currently living in Long Beach, CA. She studied printmaking and book arts at Portland State University as well as textile and fiber arts in South Korea and is currently an MFA candidate in Printmaking at CSULB. Prior to starting graduate school, she taught at various institutions including Gage Academy of Art, North Seattle College & Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. To learn more, please visit: www.ashleyshumaker.com