Natalie Schorr (b. 1960, Greensboro North Carolina, USA) tells stories with collage and mixed media creations. Her work combines collage with mixed media which may include marker, pen, and paint. Natalie earned a BFA from the University of North Carolina – Greensboro in Costume Design and an MFA in Scene Design from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh PA. She worked for 12 years in motion pictures and television before becoming more art focused. Natalie has participated in exhibitions at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles CA; Brassworks Gallery in Portland OR; Drawing Discourse at The University of North Carolina at Asheville; LeMieux Gallery in New Orleans LA; Masur Museum of Art in Monroe LA; The Lab on Santa Fe in Denver CO; and a solo exhibition at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro NC; among others. Natalie currently lives and works in Greensboro NC.

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So why analog collage?

I have spent most of my life having my shortcomings pointed out to me on a near daily basis. This made me, like a lot of women, really strive hard for perfection, an amusingly unattainable goal. It wasn’t until I ran up against something over which I could have absolutely no control - my husband’s battle with cancer and our subsequent divorce - that I began to let go of perfection and instead embrace acceptance.

So for me, analog collage is about acceptance and learning to be good with whatever comes along. The perfect picture is not the right scale? OK. The eyes don’t match? No problem. The mouth is too big? That’s fine. It would be all too easy to scan the ideal picture element into Photoshop, resize it, and print it out in the perfect proportion, but I’ve decided not to do that. I choose to accept varying scales, wrinkles, and discolored papers as an essential part of my work. It’s a much happier and more genuine practice, and I’m good with that.