40 North is thrilled to announce the Signature Image for the 2025 Boneyard Arts Festival! After evaluating 100+ outstanding submissions, a panel of local arts professionals selected John Odum’s Fusion (folded marbled paper), to be the signature image of the 2025 Boneyard Arts Festival! The Boneyard Arts Festival signature image is featured on all festival registration materials, posters, postcards, billboards, print and online advertising, as well as on the cover of the Boneyard Arts Festival quick guide.
“Fusion is a work that embodies integration across multiple facets: of artists, with paper marbled by Andrew Preston; of forms, both geometric and organic; and styles, utilizing traditional and non-traditional origami techniques. It explores unpredictability through the manipulation of pattern and shape as the marbling of each paper square is transformed through layers of folding. New patterns then emerge as the tiles are combined and arranged. ”
John Odum
John Odum is a visual artist and elementary art teacher from Champaign, Illinois. He finds inspiration in working with various media and processes, primarily assemblage sculpture, paper folding, and oil painting. His creative process has evolved through countless hours of experimentation with varied materials, investigations into their limits and potential, and the struggle to use the materials as a means of communicating ideas and understandings. https://www.johnodumart.com/
