Jerrin Wagstaff

You earned your MFA from California State University, Long Beach in 2006 and your BFA from Brigham Young University in 2003. How do you think living, studying, and working in the American West has influenced the themes in your work that your artist statement touches on (“Critical perspectives of American exceptionalism, Manifest Destiny, and American Identity ”)? I grew up in Utah, then lived in California for most of my adult life, and now I'm back in Utah. While they are very different places from a political and...