Awakening The Women's Fire
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Thu, Dec 5, 2019 - Sun, Dec 29, 2019 Gallery Hours: Sunday 12PM-4PM, Monday-Wednesday CLOSED, Thursday and Friday 3PM-8:30PM, Saturday 12
Location
The Art Garage
1400 Cedar St
Details
Awakening the Women’s Fire is a pottery collection that teaches the universal importance of women. Oneida tradition tells that women have maintained the role of firekeepers, clan holders, and life givers. Stephenie Muscavitch VanEvery explores these roles, as well as other titles, and their evolution. Indigenous knowledge has been folded and shaped into the clay, with emerging bodices relating experiences of the contemporary feminine and the ancient matriarchs of earlier times. The vessels take on characteristics of prehistoric and historic pottery with round bases, castellations, geometric shapes, and effigies. Using earthenware or stone ware, each piece is hand built, formed with the pinch pot and coil method, and pit and/or kiln fired. As the artist’s hands caressed the earth just as her ancestors did, igniting cellular memory, recalling the many different roles women play now and throughout history, the sanctity of women is recalled, their fire is awakened.
