PRS NEWS -- December 2024
To Our PRS Community Help Us Close the Year on a High Note! As the year draws to a close, we at Pacific Rim Sculptors reflect on the incredible creativity and resilience of our community. None of this would be possible without your support, from thought-provoking exhibitions to enriching workshops,. This season, we ask for your help to continue our mission of uplifting sculptors and their work. Your donation ensures that we can provide vital resources, showcase emerging talents, and keep the spirit of sculpture thriving. Join us in ending the year with strength and vision for the future! Head to our Donation page to make your tax-deductible donation today. Thank you for being an essential part of our artistic family. Together, let’s make 2024 a landmark year for sculpture. Sincerely PRS Board of Directors
PRS Board of Directors, photo from Nov 2024 board retreat. Photo courtesy of Catherine Daley. |
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PRS BOARD ANNOUNCEMENTS
We are pleased to announce two new members to the Board of Directors for our organization! Please welcome Sena Clara Creston and Briona Hendren.
Sena Clara Creston
Sena is an artist and educator originally from New York City and currently living in the Bay Area. Creston uses repurposed materials to construct electronic, kinetic, and interactive artworks. Her work focuses on the impact light, movement, and materials have on art; reflecting on alternative associations with what is considered natural in an increasingly mediated world.
To see more of her work, visit her website http://www.senaclaracreston.com/
Sena Clara Creston, The Umbrellaship
Briona Hendren
Briona is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is an ongoing exploration of psychology, memory and time, as it relates to identity, society and nature. Through the use of repetition, sculpture, site-specific interventions, printmaking and performance, she dives into biomorphic architectural re-imaginations of memory by unearthing entangled patterns of personal narratives.
Briona received her BFA in Sculpture and Museum & Gallery Methods from Sonoma State University. In addition to her art practice, Briona is the Curator for the Voigt Family Sculpture Foundation, Operations Manager for the Pacific Rim Sculptors, as well as the Metal Arts Director for Chimera Arts & Makerspace.
Briona Hendren and Erika Lutz, Journey to the Future, 2023
BOARD COMMITTEE UPDATESEXHIBITIONS COMMITTEE
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Don't miss out on our last PRS event of 2024!
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EVENTS 2025Our events calendar is beginning to build for 2025. Here are a few you should get in your calendar for the first quarter of the year! January 2025:
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March 2025: Look out for event emails with more information soon! |
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MEMBER NEWSstephanie MetzCatch Stephanie Metz solo exhibition, In the Glow, before it leaves the Triton Museum! This show features a new series of evocative fiber sculptures that explore themes of soft power, aesthetic perception, and the paradoxes of female life through the use of wool felt, body-like forms and the color pink. On view at the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, CA from September 14 - December 29, 2024. Join the Pacific Rim Sculptors tour on December 15 at 12pm. For more information: https://www.stephaniemetz.com/#/intheglowartworks/
Gallery view of In the Glow, In the Glow Gallery View, 2024, wool, industrial felt, and mixed media Stephanie Metz. The monumental site-specific sculpture invites visitors to immerse themselves ‘inside the glow’ created between the 16-by-20-foot ‘curtain’ of undulating abstracted figurative forms made of stitched industrial felt and a wall of fluorescent pink paint.
Stephanie Metz, Tensilary, 2024, wool and pigment, 20 x 22.5 x 9 inches
Stephanie Metz, In the Glow Gallery View, Back wall, 2024, wool and industrial felt, 16 x 20 x 3 feet.
View from the rear of the site-specific stitched sculpture; apparent pigment comes from light bouncing off a fluorescent pink wall. |
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Kathleen KingVisit the studio of Kathleen King and other artists in the East Bay Open Studios 2024 at 1228 30th Street in Oakland December 7-8 from 11-5pm. To see more work by Kathleen visit her webiste: kathleenking.carbonmade.com
Kathleen King, The Watchers I, 2024, sculpture, discarded wood, metal, buttons, cardboard, bottle |
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Briona HendrenOn behalf of the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, Briona is thrilled to share that “A Future Worth Planning For” - the collaborative project she was apart of in 2023 for youth civic engagement that worked to make inspired change in design policy for the City of Santa Rosa - has been named a GOLD Awards Winner in the 4th Annual Anthem Awards (Instagram: @anthemawards) for Community Engagement in the category of Education, Art & Culture, chosen from over 2,300 entries spanning 30+ countries worldwide. This category is shared with change makers like the Obama Foundation, Google, Samsung, .. and many others. She was honored to work alongside all the collaborators, amazing artists and everyone who believed in this work, championed it, and helped bring it to life. Together, they helped change culture and the standard for community-led design and WHO is being centered in the process. To read more about this collaborative project: https://www.anthemawards.com/winners/list/entry/#!education-art-culture/community-outreach/a-future-worth-planning-for/1980/45768/526909
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MEMBERSHIP & PARTICIPATIONPARTICIPATE IN PRS
MEMBERSHIP IN PRS & ISCMembers of Pacific Rim Sculptors receive a 20% discount when joining the International Sculpture Center, publishers of Sculpture magazine (ISC, www.sculpture.org). Just enter "PRS" as the Chapter Code. The online version of Sculpture magazine is now available at SculptureMagazine.Art, which includes archived issues. Also check out the ISC Website Sculpture.org member resources; add photos of your works annually for review by collectors, gallerists, curators, and corporate buyers. |