Shared Visions 2023

Abby Gunn
Ceramic, Artificial Grass and Soil
Mixed Media

This artwork comments on the American For-Profit Healthcare system in the form of a grave. While bleak, it aims to capture the commercialism of American healthcare and the grave consequences of not having coverage. Please walk to the edge of the grass and take a seat. You are welcome to touch and feel all the elements of the artwork but please do not move the soil. Move towards the wall and on the floor there will be a tombstone you can read.

Abby Gunn

Beth Roland
Silent Spring
Ceramic, Mixed Media, and Sound Box

I am very concerned about the future of our world and the changing climate. In this piece ceramic river rocks float along the wall some filled with natural products and some with human made forever trash.

Beth Roland

Beth Roland

Gallery View

Noah Brown
Noah's Arch
Ceramics

Alonzo Facha 
Tower of Babylon
Ceramics

Greg Kruse 
Where's the Wheels
Ceramics

Group Painting 

Group Painting 

Group Painting 

Group Painting 

Group Painting 

Group Painting 

Darja Jaceva
Memories In Hair
Oil paint and threads

This piece consists of one part, a canvas with threads representing hair. The painting will depict a woman, facing away, with long threads attached to her scalp as if it is hair. The audience will be able to interact with the piece by making their own hairstyles. For me, hair represents beauty, memories, growing it out my whole life, and fear of cutting it off, because it is like losing a valuable piece of myself, something that stores all of my memories. For many people cutting the hair off often represents a big change in life because it means cutting off the past. 

Darja Jaceva

Darja Jaceva

Greg Kruse 
Blind But Alive
Ceramic and Mixed Media

Here is what I imagine the aftermath scene of my traumatic car accident on June 9, 2021. There is a jeep and sedan car that were both heavily damaged after a head on collision. The fire truck represents the first responders that extracted myself and the other driver from the vehicles. The helicopter represents me being airlifted out to the hospital. The driver of the other car did not survive and I was blinded for life. 

Greg Kruse 

Greg Kruse 

Greg Kruse 

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Cai Medows
Dream House
Mixed Media

This piece is constructed of a dollhouse with different miniature toys and furniture, along with overgrown soft moss in the rooms. This is inspired by what brings me joy as an autistic person, and my special interests. 

Gwenyth Mercer
Hand Drum
Ceramic and Mixed Media

A ceramic drum base with a dyed goat skin top, carved and painted to be reminiscent of the four main albums of my favorite folk band, The Crane Wives. Play the drum. Beating in the middle of the drum will make lower pitched sounds, beating closer to the rim will make higher pitched sounds.

Gallery View

Gallery View

H. Lafamboise
Comforting Crab
Mixed Media

Tree section piece with crab legs wrapped around it. Displayed on pedestal. Representing comfort found in my personal camping experience. When my family goes camping we enjoy crab legs around the campfire together. 

Tami Tamayo
Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle
Ceramic and Mixed Media

Studio Ghibli’s Howl’s Moving Castle depicts a castle held together by magic. The buildings are suspended on four legs surrounded by metal turrets and multiple chimneys. The heart of the castle is a fire named Calcifer who moves the castle between different dimensions. 

Vu Pham
Vietnamese food " Steamed broken rice"
Mixed Media

In this project, I will use my idea traditional food from my hometown. I use simple ingredients to describe the food. Which includes grilled pork, white rice, eggs, tomatoes, lettuce,...I will arrange it. They are close together and placed on a white plate. This piece shows my love of food. 

Georgia Ferry
Connection 
Mixed Media

This sculptural piece represents the community the artist feels when she shares a bus pole with multiple people. It consists of a metal pole and three hands holding onto it. Each hand employs different textures to show the different characters who share their bus journey with the viewer. It is meant to reflect a spontaneous, casual connection between contrasting individuals as we all move toward our own destinations and the eclectic, shifting community it temporarily forms. 

Georgia Ferry

Georgia Ferry

Charlotte Feagler
If Pillows Could Talk
Ceramic, Fabric, Thread, Bed, Nightstand and Voice Boxes

Haikus written before falling asleep, done in braille. I tried to capture universal feelings of loss, longing, envy, and general suffering. 

Charlotte Feagler

Charlotte Feagler

Jodee Sweet
I Will Turn In Once The Sunflowers Rot
Mixed Media Collage on Paper Strips

This is an interactive artwork. Viewers are invited to tear off the pieces of the artwork and discard as they choose. This piece explores the feeling of loss of control in time and my struggle with anxiety and depression. 
 

Jodee Sweet 

Jodee Sweet 

Kim Kaminski
“Giving and Receiving", "Meditation" and "Praise"


“Giving and Receiving” Ceramic and Pearls This is a figurative piece with the figure gesturing one hand up receiving the blessing and one hand facing down giving the blessing. The boat shaped head piece is full of sphere shapes representing gifts. The bodice is made of flowers with small pearls in the center for bounty and beauty. *** “Meditation” Ceramic This is a figurative piece in a gesture of prayer and meditation with the hands together. The angular rings around the figure and angular shapes around the body give the piece dimension and represent transcendence and peace. *** “Praise” Ceramic and Feathers This is a figurative piece in a gesture of praise with the arms outstretched upward. The figure has a simple shaped tall hat and a smooth body reminiscent of the Whirling Dervishes. The skirt of the body is covered in feathers for the visual and textural reference to flight and freedom. 

Michelle Zhong
Black Cat
Mixed Media

This is a laser-cut drawing, with a black cat's back facing the moon and stars. Black cat in Western culture is not a good sign - but in my country is auspicious sign, so I like to tell how one thing is being so different in different place, and I like to tell that people should be self-confident, because something you think is bad or not perfect maybe is perfect on other's eye. 

Michelle Zhang





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Gallery View

Shannon Corrie

Shannon Corrie

Mixed Media

Two beats next to each other, forever intertwined. Despite their contrasting beats they still beat for the other. No matter how different the beats may sound, they constantly stick next to one another in an eternal embrace. 

Brandon Cozzetti
Melting of a Frozen Heart
Mixed Media

This piece is made from ice fitted around warm central element. I wanted to represent how a book cannot be judged by how the cover, whether by looks or touch. 

CCB Student

Clara Sandoval-Cooper
AB (amyloid-Beta)
Mixed Media

This piece is a visual depiction of Alzheimer’s disease progression that is told through a tactile experience. The tactile experience is meant to have a dual meaning around the process of deforestation. Neuron shaped trees start on the left with intertwining dendrites which are meant to mimic branches. The neurons are made from yarn, fabric, foam, and wool fibers. The neurons become less dense as the feeler moves right. Large holes start to form after the addition of wood pieces that represent fibril plaques to mimic the degradation of brain matter during Alzheimer’s disease. 
 

Dan Burk

Daniel Nixon

Ellie Riser

Gabby Danner
Bits and Pieces
Ceramics

This collection of ceramic pieces I’ve made represents my relationships with others, some are smooth and strong. Others are loving and warm, but some are bumpy, and some are broken. Each one makes up a part of me. 

Gunner Palac

Masson Fessendon

Eun Mia L.
Reminiscence
Fabric and Yard

This piece is composed of fabric set on the wall. It is reminiscent of my childhood memories and feelings about my grandmother in Korea. Each fabric and stitch represents my emotions during that stage of my life, with memories of her in it. 

Nathan Brown
Family Dinner
Mixed Media

Take a seat at the dinner table. Engage with the dinnerware as you discover the cracks and flaws that we share. 

Group Project
Rich Play Art

River Hetzel
Causality and a Moth's Wings
Textiles, Fabric, and Wire 

This piece is composed of two moth wings that are attached to hinges so they are able to move. By touching and moving the wings, different bells and wind chimes that are attached to the piece will create sounds. The piece represents how actions, even small ones, can have significant effects. 

Roy Berhstrom
Ode to 30's Play
Ceramic and Mixed Media

Marble maze with transition from monochromatic metal to colorful ceramic ending in a wooden Pachinko. Start with ball bearing on the bottom and launch to start and then follow the instructions on the lower wooden ledge. 

Roy Berhstrom
 

Tristan Dunning
Dyslexia
Wood, Spray paint, and Yarn

Walk through and touch the letters. This performance video and installation shows how being unable to read, write, and spell affects me in life. The letters that are painted with black show the struggles and so many difficulties that I have. Black represents struggle, a hard time, and darkness. The black walls show that I am confined to a path of life that I have to follow. All the other letters show there is light, and there are different paths that I can follow through the darkness and that there is a path through all the madness. Dyslexia does not define who I am. Dyslexia does not affect my IQ but it does change how people see me and treat me. Dyslexia puts up barriers that I need to learn to navigate around. 

Zoe Caron
The Forth Blob
Mixed Media

This is an abstract wall sculpture with varying blob-like forms and textures. Please feel around the forms and discover the different materials and surfaces.

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Zoe Caron