Carolyn Rogers
SHOW & TELL | Co-FOUNDER & Creative DiREctor
Carolyn Rogers
Carolyn is a young visual storyteller and artist. She graduated from Ohio University, where she studied visual communications and spent her time exploring and photographing Southeast Ohio.
In 2019, she had the opportunity to visit Boyd’s Station and found inspiration from old postcards that led to a self-published book with Shai Bardin, Exhale: A Collection of Moments. Following that experience, she wanted to continue her work with Boyd’s Station and saw an opportunity to create a platform for student artists from Harrison County High School. Carolyn believes art is for everyone - and is why SHOW & TELL's goal is to create accessible spaces for the community to see the students' work.
In her free time at the farm, she dove headfirst into papermaking and using natural fibers from the fields to create art. Setting up a makeshift studio in the old bank building in Boyd, she spent her afternoons grinding grass and milkweed topped with wildflowers to form 3x4 sheets of paper. Carolyn hopes to continue papermaking and creating from natural fibers.
Carolyn Rogers along with Shai Bardin, the first high school student selected for a Boyd’s Station program in 2019, teamed during that inaugural year of SHOW & TELL collaborating to publish the book Exhale: A Collection of Moments while in residence in Harrison County.
During the second year of SHOW & TELL in 2020, Carolyn Rogers took inspiration from the land and around her to form paper from grass and milkweed that grew in the fields. The flowers are a combination of wildflowers that grew throughout the Boyd and from other local farmers. Each piece is a 3x4 handcrafted sheet with flowers incorporated. Each was handcrafted and created in the remnants of the former Cannon Bank building at Boyd’s Station.