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Arts! Arcata
Opening Friday August 9th
Connie Butler & Rose Kronberg
Arts! Arcata
Opening Friday August 9th
Connie Butler & Rose Kronberg
Join us at The Fire Arts Center for Arts! Arcata, Friday August 9, 6-8 pm. Our Featured Artists for August are Rose Kronberg and Connie Butler, member artists. Their show ‘Ancient Forms and Modern Function’ will highlight their new works.
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Connie Butler, a well-known sculptor, is the creator of several large, public sculptures in the area, including Calf and Mermaid, Dolphin, and Bronze Whale, all in Trinidad. For the past nine years, she has been working in clay at the Fire Arts Center, in Arcata, focusing on figures and ancient forms. This new exhibit at the Fire Arts Gallery, highlights Connie’s interest in ancient forms. She has recreated Neolithic balls, as found in gravesites of Northern England Stonehenge people, and beakers found in excavations from the invasion of beaker people in 2000 BC from Europe to Scotland and Northern England. In addition, Connie has been creating ossuaries, vessels to contain human ashes. Her vessels are unfired, painted paper clay and are designed to dissolve in water. ‘My work is an homage to death as a spiritual conclusion to life. Many people are scattering the ashes of loved ones in the ocean and other bodies of water, or burying them and they are choosing to use biodegradable vessels.’, Connie reflected. |
Rose Kronberg started taking classes at the Fire Arts Center just over two years ago during the process of relocating from the long winter months and nightless summers of northern Sweden. She brings the experiences gained from a PhD in soil science to her work with clay. Trained in the analytic rigors of lab work proved useful as precision is integral to Rose’s work. Her pieces are largely functional, with plates, cups, and planters among her favorites, and they express and are naturally inspired by her roots in remote forested areas of Scandinavia. Knitting is another craft Rose has delved into and even combined with clay, as seen with her selection of desk buddies – clay animals adorned with knitted garments. |
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