Rhea Edge uses her art to convey an environmental message and a moral message that breaks through words and facts. Her art speaks a truth that is often obscured by manipulative phrasing and partisan politics. She shows us the vulnerabilities of endangered species and their impending extinction. It’s beautiful. It’s disconcerting. It leaves viewers with uncomfortable moral questions.
Rhea Edge is a painter/printmaker based in Illinois, USA who often uses images of birds in her paintings and prints. Edge, Associate Professor of Art and chair of the fine and performing arts department at Eureka College, has traveled extensively documenting animal extinctions around the world. She has paintings of the Scarlet Ibis in Trinidad, Sandhill Cranes in Nebraska, leatherback turtles on a Florida beach and tigers in India. Over decades, her message has been a clarion call for climate justice. Rhea Edge is President of the John Wesley Powell Chapter of the National Audubon Society. Her work can be found in many private and public collections, including:
•Illinois State University, Normal, IL
•W.M. Putnam Co., Bloomington, IL
•Eureka College, Eureka, IL
•Bradley University, Peoria, IL
•Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, IL
