An Interview with Hutchmoot Featured Artist Dawn Baker

At Hutchmoot 2025, we will have a featured artist in residence for the first time—Dawn Baker.

Kyra Hinton sat down to speak with Dawn as an introduction to our readers. In this interview, Dawn talks about her journey as an artist, from her upbringing the in the Philippines as a missionary kid to working odd jobs after college to pursue art as her vocation. Along the way, she found her husband, raised a family, and refined her technique with gold leaf. Dawn also explains how she lets her hands pray as she paints and her pursuit to make art that can take us to a place where we can feel something we couldn’t have felt without it.

If you see her at Hutchmoot and need a conversation starter, just start talking about trees.

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