Linda Popp
Linda Popp is originally from Chicago and has lived in the Baltimore area since 1974. She retired from teaching visual arts with Baltimore County Public Schools, where she received numerous state and national awards recognizing her teaching and leadership. Throughout her teaching career, Popp maintained an active studio practice and regularly exhibited her work. She is a member of numerous galleries and artist collectives and continues to exhibit locally and nationally. Her solo exhibitions include Gallery Blue Door in Baltimore, the Leu Gallery at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, and York Art Association. Her work has also appeared in regional group exhibitions focused on assemblage, and she continues to share her practice through assemblage workshops.
Popp creates narrative assemblage sculptures using found objects, artifacts, and symbolic materials to explore relationships with family, place, love, faith, nature, identity, and time. She embraces the histories and associations carried by collected objects, allowing them to guide the development of each work. While rooted in personal experience, her narratives are intended to become universal, inviting viewers to connect the objects and stories to their own lives. Music, literature, and poetry frequently inform her titles and intentions, adding another layer of meaning to her compositions. Popp is particularly interested in the reflective potential of assemblage: how examining the fragments of a life can foster a deeper understanding of both self and others. Drawing from her experiences as a woman and as an artist with decades of lived experience, she approaches collecting and making as acts of resilience, memory, and purpose.
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