Meisa Chase

Meisa Chase was born in Pennsylvaina, where her love for both horses and art began at a young age.  These passions have taken her to many places across America and beyond to seek what worldly knowledge she may uncover.  Meisa completed her BFA in 2002, from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  She made her way west when she was accepted to be a Mule Guide in the Grand Canyon.  After a little over a year she felt she had shared enough of her talents with the mules of the Canyon.  Soon after she made her way into Durango and called it home.

She has showcased her costuming talents at Durango at Fashion Week; Fall 2008, with the Bare Bones Burlesque; Spring 2009 and The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Strater Theatre; Fall 2009.  Her paintings were showcased during the Durango Studio Art Walk via. the Co-Lab hosted at Three Springs. Meisa is currently teaching a variety of Drawing basics and techniques in classes offered to the public for free at the Lavenia McCoy Library in Bayfield.

Meisa employs a wide range of disciplines in her creative expressions, most prominently are Drawing, Costuming and Illustration.

The Artist views Drawing as the hub of her creative wheel, in a sense all her work spurs from this discipline.  Her drawings range in temperature from simple, expressive line to fully realized drawings, usually in black and white and/or with minimal color use.  Her lifelong passions and explorations show within the content of her art, such as costumes, horses and animal characters.  She endows her work with an emotional charge and vivacity which blends to create a place that is familiar to the imagination.  Meisa is looking forward to uncovering more secrets in life, as she is tirelessly committed to artistically recording the explorations and intimacies of life.

Wherever she may roam, it is certain to be with her pen and a pony in tow.

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