Maggy Rozycki Hiltner scours antique shops and yard sales for old embroidery.  Inspired by the images of animated vegetables and all too cute oversized puppies and kittens, she combines this found embroidery with her own to depict sweet, strange and sometimes unsettling stories.

"Is it autobiography if parts of it are not true?  Is it fiction if parts of it are?"---Lynda Barry

Her images at first appear whimsical or vibrantly happy but on closer inspection are not quite so.  Sometimes it's a malicious undertone to the relationships, or a lack of self-control on the part of the characters, or maybe an otherworldlyness hidden in the everyday.

Maggy grew up in suburban Pennsylvania.  After serving as her high school mascot, Rowdy Ram, she went on to earn a degree in sculpture from Syracuse University.  She and her husband, David, moved to Red Lodge in 2005 to open the Red Lodge Clay Center.  They live/garden/make stuff/play with their two young daughters, a dog, two guinea pigs, four chickens and several goldfish.

For questions about the availability and prices of the pieces shown, please contact us at 406-582-0416.

You can view more of her work at www.maggyrhiltner.com.