Rural Pearl

Angie Pickman is a nationally recognized cut paper artist who combines the art of traditional paper cutting with collage to create intricately detailed works of art and animations. Her work is heavily inspired by her love of nature and the tranquility of the terrain of rural Kansas.

Pickman has been featured in Midwest Living and Martha Stewart Living magazines, and her animation work appeared in Daughters of the Forest, a PBS documentary, in the summer of 2016. In 2018, her first children’s book, Merry Menagerie – Animal Antics from A to Z, was released. She has won numerous awards for her work, including an Independent Music Award for album art.

She received her master’s degree in 2004 from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where she began cutting paper in 2003 after seeing “The Adventures of Prince Achmed” – a cut paper stop-motion silhouette animation from 1926 by Lotte Reiniger.

Pickman was born and raised in Atchison and has a studio in Lawrence, KS.