Yesterday Quarterly No. 4

Author: Lindsey Cherek Waller

Publisher: heron press (2024)

The fourth issue of Yesterday Quarterly features Lindsey Cherek Waller, a painter based in Red Wing, MN. A queer, non-binary artist based in the rural midwest, Cherek Waller maintains a painting studio at the Anderson Center at Towerview. She operates her own business as a full-time artist with consistent sales of originals and prints via her website, as well as with Urban Outfitters, CB2, and more. She has a BFA in painting from the University of Wisconsin–Stout, and exhibits her work around the US, including in Los Angeles, New York City, and Minneapolis. She also curated a professional, queer-focused exhibit in Red Wing. Her work portrays and archives queer existence in history, and documents the queerness of everyday life. In 2022, she self-published a zine sharing paintings of queer folks she’s in community with, alongside conversations about what it means to be LGBTQ+ in Minnesota, and funded the project with a grant awarded from the Minnesota State Arts Board.

In December of 2023, editor Elizabeth de Cleyre met with Cherek Waller at her studio in Red Wing. This issue features full-color photographs of Cherek Waller’s paintings and studio.

Yesterday Quarterly is a longform interview series, featuring conversations with creatives and entrepreneurs that zero in on a day in their life, capturing the quotidian, the routine, and the unexpected. YQ offers a kind of intimacy of holding someone's day in your hands, and invites us to slow down, read, and reconsider how we span our time.