Michael & Julie BURNS
apart together |
Small Boxes & Quilts
February 29 - April 1, 2024
February 29 - April 1, 2024
First Friday Reception: March 1st, 5 - 8 pm Please join us! Celebrate Michael's legacy and our community. Michael and Julie Burns find pleasure in their craft. They start work with exotic woods and beloved fabrics.
"After appreciating our materials as a whole, we cut them apart and begin the satisfying process of piecing them back together." Both use traditional techniques and find inspiration in masterworks and the materials themselves. They create original pieces intended to be both appealing and useful. Though they work in separate spaces, many of their tools are similar and they often find that construction follows suit. A mitered corner is a mitered corner! They share their ideas and find inspiration in each other’s work. |
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Welcome to our Newest Guest Members, Molly Boynoff Klein and Isabel Rucker |
Molly's process usually involves throwing on a pottery wheel and altering the shapes with her muddy bare hands, or hand-building with clay slabs. She is inspired by the seashore: the worn sandstone cliffs, the moods of the water, and marine creatures.
After living in the the Rocky Mountains, Peace Corps Volunteering in the Dominican Republic, teaching in China, and world travels, Molly has circled back to her native Mendocino Coast. And now lives near Fort Bragg. |
Jeweler, Isabel Rucker
Isabel Rucker's jewelry is hand wrought and elegant in design. It features glittering hammered surfaces and hand carved gemstones.
She is passionate about the natural world and jewelry is connected to this through regionally sourced stones, like jade from our Mendocino County. Her metal textures recall abstract patterns and movements seen in the wild and capture glints of sunlight. Isabel has a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Oregon where she focused on metalsmithing and she is currently studying to become a gemologist. She returned to the California coast from the Rocky Mountains in 2020. And now lives in Ft. Bragg. For more info: www.isabeljewelry.com Instagram: @isabeljewelry |
And continuing Guest Member, Ceramist, Heather Law
"My artwork is a dramatic depiction of American material consumerism and the resulting waste it creates. I use clay as a tool to educate the viewer on environmental concerns mainly focused on single-use plastic packaging." While attending graduate school, Law enrolled in a Garbage Archeology class and discovered her passion for trash, mainly single-use plastic packaging for food. Heather Law has been working with clay for over 20 years. She is currently a professor at Mendocino College and runs a small production business in Ukiah, California. More Info: www.lawartistry.com Instagram: @lawartistry |
Guest Membership Opportunity
Northcoast Artists is currently looking for qualified artists to apply for guest memberships. Jewelers, especially, are urged to apply, although artists from all mediums will be considered.
Becoming a guest member is required before applying for a full membership. This allows the prospective artist to see what it's like to work in a cooperative gallery before making a decision on whether or not to apply for full membership. Download an application here. |