Linda Litteral is a multi-faceted artist working alternately with ceramics, bronze cast and clay sculpture, oil and acrylic paint on canvas, pen and pencil on paper, wood, and three-dimensional mixed media sculpture. Linda earned her MFA from San Diego State University (SDSU). Her thesis was an exploration of art as a way to expose and heal childhood abuse. Past teaching experience includes SDSU, Mesa, Miramar, Grossmont, and Southwestern Colleges. She has taught art healing classes to inmates at Las Colinas Detention Center and RJ Donovan Correctional Facility. Recently, she facilitated a similar class at New York City’s prestigious Bluestocking’s Bookstore. She is a member of Allied Craftsman and is director of the Feminist Image Group. Her work has been seen extensively in Greater San Diego and is included in the collections of Museu Brasileira De Escultura, (The Brazil Museum of Culture) in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute in Jingdzhen, China. Litteral curated the Feminist Image Group (FIG) show, Don’t Shut Up! at City College. She traveled to New York City to represent the artists and their movement at Ceres Gallery. She has shown her work at Grafiska Sallskapet and Krogen Amerika in Sweden. Litteral was also chosen for and attended a coveted two-month residency at Centre Pompadour in France for women artists creating social change through their art in 2018. As an artist, she is passionate about making the world a safer place for women and children. She just published the book Show and Tell: Healing Trauma Through Art. She uses her art to educate and heal viewers. Her classes help people of all ages open to healing themselves and their communities.
About Linda Gail Litteral
Q: Please tell us a little bit about your family.
I grew up in rural Michigan with 3 brothers. My husband is a retired Naval Submarine sailor.
Q: Please tell us about your current, past, or future career. What do you love most about what you do?
I started out in engineering and moved into the arts as my second career. I love to share my work and open minds through creativity.
Q: What advice would you give to people?
Do what you love.
Q: Where do you see yourself in 5 to 10 years?
Creating art as I do now.
Linda Gail Litteral & Our Community
Q: What are a few of your favorite restaurants in our community?
The Purple Mint, The Yasai Japanese, Plumeria, Donna Jean
Q: How long have you lived or worked in our community?
since 1982
Q: Who is the most interesting person you’ve met here in our community?
Helen Redman, artist.
Q: What current or former local business makes you the most nostalgic about our community?
Buck Knives which moved to Idaho but where I worked in the engineering department when I first moved here.
Q: What is your favorite thing or something unique about our community?
Space 4 Art is a live-work artist space in East Village.
Q: If you could choose anyone alive today and not a relative, with whom would you love to have lunch? Why? And where locally would you meet for this lunch?
Vigdis Finnbogadottir: first woman in the world to be democratically elected as president. Lunch at Addison
For Fun
Q: What is one of your favorite movies? TV shows?
Astrid
Q: (Even for friends or family), what is something interesting that most people don’t know about you?
I was a pretty good third-baseman when I could still play softball. Was on a championship women’s softball team in New Hampshire.
Q: What would you rate a 10 out of 10?
The home crowd at “the show” – SDSU men’s basketball.
Q: Who inspires you to be better?
The women of the Feminist Image Group (FIG)
Q: What community organizations and/or local nonprofits do you admire/support?
San Diego Space 4 Art, The Studio Door, Feminist Image Group (FIG), Sparks Gallery, Our Arts Foundation, San Diego Habitat Conservancy
Q: What is the best advice you’ve ever received?
To pursue my creative process and go back to school.
Q: What Neighborhood do you live in?
Santee
What I love about my Neighborhood:
The quiet
Please describe your ideal San Diego weekend:
Gardening, then going to an arts event, reading the following afternoon away after brunch with friends at the beach.
Q: Finally, what three words or phrases come to mind when you think of the word HOME?
Love, Calm, Flowers
