Eleen Auvil, 1927-2022 Eleen Auvil lived at least four artistic lifetimes in the 95 years she lived on earth prior to her passing on Valentine’s Day in 2022.Auvil began her career as a textile designer using yarn, string, and other materials to weave large mixed-media sculptural installations. She then delved into hand-made paper which she used to create three-dimensional works. Bronze, copper, stone, and wood sculptures were Eleen’s chief focus for the last forty years. During this time, as an antidote to this heavy work, she turned to print-making. She is best known in this realm for her unique monotypes. Her techniques and subjects are as diverse as her mediums. Over a career spanning seven decades, Auvil both trained, taught, and exhibited widely across the United States, including Wayne State University, Flint Institute of Art, Chicago Art Institute, and Cranbrook Academy. Her work is held in numerous museums and educational institutions including Cranbrook, California State University Monterey Bay, Monterey Museum of Art, and Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Auvil holds a rare dual Artist Membership status at the Carmel Art Association, having juried in separately in both two- and three-dimensional categories. She was a past President of the Board of Directors of the Carmel Art Association, during which time she was instrumental in founding CAA’s front sculpture garden and expanding the gallery’s interior space. In addition, she gave generously in time, leadership, and landscaping to Carmel’s Carl Cherry Center for the Arts. Eleen was rightly proud of the two unusual homes she helped design to live in, one in Corral de Tierra between Monterey and Salinas, where a large barn served as her studio, and the other in Carmel-by-the-Sea. Since the late 1990s, she worked out of a studio in Sand City, California. As a parting gift to this little seaside town, this Carmel nonagenarian designed a collaborative mural titled Trees of Sand City which San Francisco Art Institute artist Margaret Ghodsi then painted onto a building at the corner of Ortiz Avenue and Hickory Street. In 2018 Eleen Auvil, A Life in Art was published. This book catalogs the four distinct arenas of her studio work. It contains an in-depth essay by Helaine Glick as well as more than ninety images of her extensive and distinguished oeuvre.