Studio Lyric

Studio Lyric is the painting studio of Lyric Morris-Latchaw (she/her), a contemporary oil painter, muralist, farmer, and community organizer.

Lyric lives and works in rural SW Wisconsin, and also spends substantial time in Cincinnati, Ohio. She creates imaginative paintings, murals, and art objects to infuse life with intention, beauty, and a deepened connection to the natural world. Her work often reimagines common plants using whimsical colors and playful, painterly forms that speak to a communally thriving vision of the future, beyond the shadow of the climate crisis and the two-headed snake of capitalism/colonialism.

The studio is located on the stolen ancestral land belonging to the Ho-Chunk, Meskwaki, Kickapoo, Dakota, Potawatomi, and Miami peoples. This is a sacred, generous land that the Ho-Chunk referred to as “the refuge” because it is where they survived the last Ice Age. We can’t pursue a deeper connection to the natural world without first naming and working to heal the legacy of violence and disconnection that precedes us.

Lyric lives and works at Little Platte Catholic Worker Farm, an intentional land-based community committed to the values of: Community, Hospitality, Right Relationship with the Land, Simplicity and Homemaking, Non-violence, Education, Decolonization and Anti-Racism, and Creativity.