ART THAT CREATES
PORTALS TO
NEW WORLDS
Welcome to my creative home
ART & DESIGN TIME TRAVEL EXPERIENTIAL
I’m Meredith Hutchison — a community artist and storyteller who builds visual worlds with purpose and heart. Through The Linocut, my creative home, I use art as a portal: a way to step into new worlds, whether they’re futures we’re daring to imagine or new realities we’re ready to claim right now.
My work blends design, story, and collective memory to honor our people and histories, expand what we believe is possible, and spark the futures we deserve. Every image, every line, every story is an invitation to reawaken, reconnect, and move toward a world shaped by liberation, creativity, and us.
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS
THE BRIDGE - TIME TRAVEL GAME
The Bridge is a storytelling game that invites young people to travel through past, present, and future—claiming their stories, imagining new possibilities, and building connections across generations. It’s a playful, powerful space for identity, creativity, and liberation.
I co-designed the game, its content, and its visual world—crafting the prompts, curriculum, art, and design with deep intention and joy. Every element was created to feel expansive, dignified, and alive in the hands of the young people who play it.
More than a game, The Bridge is a portal into possibility—reminding us that our stories shape our futures, and that young people already carry the brilliance to build the world ahead.
TRANSCESTORS & TRAILBLAZERS
TransLash’s Transcestors & Trailblazers Graphic Zine is a bold, comic-inspired living archive—drawn from resistance, inked in resilience, and created to honor the trans histories too often erased or overlooked. Across its vivid pages, generations of trans elders, artists, advocates, and visionaries come alive through storytelling that refuses to be quiet. I had the joy and responsibility of illustrating and designing the full publication—bringing each portrait, page, and timeline to life with intention, reverence, and love.
This zine is more than a collection of stories; it’s a powerful act of visibility. It’s for trans youth seeking mirrors, for educators and allies hungry for truth, and for communities honoring the brilliance that shaped our past and is shaping our future. Every page holds a legacy. Every illustration carries a heartbeat. And together, they invite readers to remember, celebrate, and imagine forward.
VISION NOT VICTIM
Vision Not Victim is a transformative storytelling and photography program that supports girls and young women in defining their futures on their own terms. Through creative workshops, guided imagination, and collaborative portrait-making, participants craft powerful future selves—then step into them, embodying the leaders, artists, healers, and change-makers they dream of becoming.
What makes this work so powerful is that it flips the narrative: instead of being defined by harm or limitation, girls become the authors of their own stories. And those stories have moved the world. The images, visions, and strategies created by participants have shaped advocacy campaigns from the local to the international level—mobilizing communities to end child marriage, end FGM, and protect girls’ education and rights. Their portraits and testimonies have been presented in a U.S. Congressional hearing, featured as a major exhibit at the United Nations, and shared in exhibitions, events, and experiences across the globe.
HUMAN RIGHT DEFENDERS
The art direction for Frontline’s Human Rights Defenders campaign brought together a global team of artists to create powerful custom collages, vibrant social-media templates, and striking visual storytelling that uplifted defenders and the vital work they do around the world. Each piece was crafted to honor their courage, illuminate their stories, and make their advocacy impossible to ignore.
The campaign’s visuals traveled far—featured in major media outlets, shared across international networks, and displayed on billboards that brought defenders’ faces and missions into public view. This work showed what art can do at its best: amplify truth, ignite solidarity, and ensure those protecting our rights are seen, celebrated, and supported.
FUTURESCAPING
Futurescaping with Nevadans was a statewide invitation, in partnership with Teach for America’s Innovation Lab, for young people, educators, and communities to imagine bold, liberated futures—and redesign learning around what they truly need to thrive. I helped create and facilitate this process, guiding workshops where participants dreamed big, shared truths, and shaped visions for schools rooted in belonging, creativity, and possibility.
From this work emerged a suite of creative tools: a card deck, a future-thinking journal, a prompt book, original art and stories, and a full facilitation playbook to help educators bring futures thinking into their classrooms.
At its heart, Futurescaping is powerful because it centers youth as architects of their own future—and gives communities the tools to build toward the world they imagine.
