Meet the Artist

Zachia Middlechild, artist, environmentalist, and author, started out drawing portraits in pencil at a very young age and then graduated to charcoal and pastels. She didn’t start painting until her formal art education at the Emily Carr College of Art & Design and the UW, where she learned to paint with oils and developed her style, EcoSpiritual Expressionism. Since then, she has made it a mission to Save the Earth thru her artwork. 

In her own words: “I guess you could say I grew up in the woods! I was born in the city of Seattle, but when I was seven years old we moved across the lake to the country where I had 60 acres of forest to play in, no neighbors for miles, and horses to ride! Back then western Washington was all rolling hills, forested with red cedar, hemlock, spruce, and mostly Douglas fir, it was a veritable evergreen wonderland! I don’t think it’s possible to grow up as close to nature as I did, (I spent most of my time in a tree or beside a frog pond) and not have a strong feeling for the Earth show up in my artwork. I think my work alternates between trying to recapture the woods into my living room and conveying the concept of life and nature that I developed while spending time there.”

Zachia Middlechild has exhibited nationally and internationally and has collectors from 

New York to Texas, Zimbabwe to Peru, and Chicago to Vancouver, B.C. She lives in Ferndale, Washington with her husband, Harry Cutler.

For further information, commissions and murals, please contact:

Zachia Middlechild at: Email: earthartmama@outlook.com

Website: EarthArtMama.com

email: earthartmama@outlook.com

Education

BA, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

Emily Carr College of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC

University of Mexico, Mexico City

Exhibits 

Studio Show, Ferndale, WA  2018

International Art Festival at Peace Arch Park, WA 2014

Allied Arts of Whatcom County, Washington, 2011, 2012

Studio show, Ferndale, WA 2010 

Studio showing, Chicago, 2009

DE Studio and gallery, Congress theater building, Chicago, IL. ongoing, 2005.

Art Expo New York, New York, 1998, Featured on ticket, Art Expo Bag, and on television, NY CBS, NYABC, NYNBC, ETC. 

The Institute of Art, Chicago, IL. SOLO SHOW, Collection series “Earth, Art, and 

Higher Consciousness”, and “The Wind” series, 1996.

The Second International Conference on Human Factor and Development, in Zimbabwe, Africa. September 20-22, 1996.

Earth Day Celebration 1996, featuring the artwork of Zachia Middlechild, speaking on Eco Spiritual Expressionism. Clear Lake Texas. April 1996.

AT&T League Conference/ Art Exhibit, at the Sheridan, Chicago, IL, May 1996.

Meet the Artist, Crystal City, Atlanta Georgia, 1995.

La Charl gallery, SOLO SHOW, Houston, Texas December 1995

The Art Store Gallery, Window, Glenco, IL 1993

Gallery 1633 “Water Show,” and “Spring Show”, 1993

Gallery 1633, Group Show, 1994.Bertoncinni Gallery, Art Windows Benefit Bash!” International Show, Chicago 1993

Bertoncinni Gallery, Chicago, IL 1992.

Studio Show, “Earth” Evanston, IL., 1992.

Burnaby Art Center, Vancouver, B.C. Canada, 1990.

Fremont Fine Arts Gallery, “In God’s Hands”, sculpture, Seattle, Wa. 1989.

Emily Carr College of Art, Annual Show 1989, Vancouver, BC.

Publications

Middlechild, Zachia (2019) ECOTOPIAN WORLD, (a novel) 

Middlechild, Zachia, (1995) Art booklet, “A Journey into Earth, Art, and Higher Consciousness”, Evanston, IL

Kidwell, Harlin (1996) Feature Article about artist/environmentalist/author, Zachia Middlechild and Eco Spiritual Expressionism, Seabrook, Texas (newspaper).

Kidwell, Harlin (1996) “In God’s Hands” (painting) Appearing on the Cover of the Bay Runner newspaper, Seabrook, Texas.

Middlechild, Zachia & Cherif, A. (1995) “Three Paths for Hope”, Mawaheeb Multicultural Magazine, 7(78):30-32. (Ontario, Canada).

Middlechild, Zachia (1994) “In the Arms of O’Keefe”: Epic Poem, Forward to Excellence In Teaching and Learning, 2(1):7. (Chicago)

Middlechild, Zachia (1994) A Seattle Poet Reflects on Our Surroundings (A collection of poems: “Earth”, “Trees”, “In God’s Hands” and “The last Trees on Earth,” Al Shorouq: magazine 4(2): 15, Vancouver, B.C. Canada).

Middlechild, Zachia, (1994). “Trees” poem. , Mawaheeb Multicultural Magazine,. (Ontario, Canada).

Qanah, Khalid (1994) Zachia Middlechild: An Artist and Author, Mawaheeb Multicultural Magazine, 7(78):30-32. (Ontario, Can