Hive Series These Mini-Hives are dynamic to look at and will fit beautifully into your garden space. There are only 6 available!
Lichen Series The Lichen Series has evolved into Spore Patterns on reclaimed wood as wall sculptures for indoor or outdoor placement.
Umbel Series The 230 Umbel Flowers are on display at the Environmental Installations Exhibit but they are available for pre-sale now and are selling fast!
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Sculpture Is: 2017 “In the Garden”
Presented by the Pajaro Valley Arts
June 1 – October 31, 2017
Reception: June 29th 5 – 7pm
The eleventh annual Sculpture IS: exhibition is taking place on the beautiful two-acre Sierra Azul Nursery demonstration gardens with over 90 sculptures. This critically acclaimed exhibit showcases work in steel, wood, ceramics, bronze, glass and concrete. Come visit the gardens!
Sierra Azul Nursery and Gardens
2660 East Lake Avenue
Watsonville California
If you made it to the Spring Studio Sale a few weeks ago, you saw the latest pieces from the Lichen Series | Spore Patterns hanging on my studio walls. I’m really loving these new pieces which are mounted to reclaimed barn board I found on my mother in law’s property.
The ceramic pieces are arranged on the boards to mimic the composition of mushroom spore patterns and play with ideas of death and new growth. These can be hung on the wall both indoors and out, and will give a modern rustic feel to the space they encompass.
They will be hitting the online shop soon, but if you’re interested please contact me for details.
ceramic & reclaimed wood, sizes range from 8″ x 20″ to 30″ x 30″ and prices range from 150. – 250.
THANK YOU to everyone who came out to the opening of Environmental Installations at the UCSC Arboretum this past Saturday- it was really so fantastic to see the whole exhibit come together and to chat with everyone. I loved seeing patrons walk the path of my Umbel Series Installation. If you haven’t been to the exhibit yet, be sure to get out there, this show is up until November 17th.
If you would like some Umbel Flowers for your own garden, they are available for pre-sale in the online shop! You can order as many as you would like and you will be invited to the Arboretum towards the end of the exhibit for a ‘picking day’ where you can choose the umbel flowers you love and transplant them into your own garden. The picking day will be just before the holiday season starts so you can get flowers for yourself or others!
Umbels are only $65 each and every flower is handmade and unique.
Be sure to add a steel stem (no additional cost) to your shopping cart as well when ordering and to choose ‘local pick up’ to avoid shipping charges. If you are out of the area, you can still order flowers with or without the steel stem and they will be shipped to you after the exhibit closes.
INTERVIEW WITH JENNI WARD
APRIL 2017
Jenni Ward is a California-based ceramic sculptor who creates abstract pieces and installations inspired by nature. Her mission is to share the beauty she sees in the natural world through her art. Jenni is the owner of Earth Art Studio; an art studio offering community clay classes to children, teens, and adults since 2005. She has shown her work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, the de Saisset Museum and at the annual exhibition of the NCECA conference. She has been featured in Ceramics Monthly and Ceramic Now magazine. Annie sat down with Jenni for a get-to-know you interview as follows… read more
Join me for a workshop at Annieglass on Saturday May 27th for the launch of the Craftbar!
If you can’t make it out to see these installations in person, well, that’s just sad.
But the good news is that you can check them out on my website!
Click the links below to learn more about my two newest installations at the UCSC Arboretum for the Environmental Installations exhibit curated by Susana Arias.
Environmental Installations | May 20 – Nov 17 | Opening May 20, 3 – 6pm
This one has been a long time in the works and you’ve seen the process evolve from sketches to prototypes to unloading the final pieces from the glaze kiln. Now it’s time to get these Umbels planted into the garden at the Arboretum.
I took up a batch of 90 stems and flowers (less than half of the total to be installed) to start arranging them. This is the exciting part about doing an installation, you really don’t know if or exactly how it’s going to all come together until it has to.
I played with hammering the stems into the soil in a variety of placements to see how they looked and I wasn’t really happy with any of the compositions, so I sat down in the grass to think about it. And as I sat, I was looking at the trail I had created by walking through the grasses unloading the work, which led from one established path in the arboretum to the other and I realized the formation I wanted these pieces to follow. They are lined up in rows that stretch over 40′ and I think the stripe of mustard yellow through the meadow will make a big impact on the garden space. I love how adding a geometric structure to their arrangement helps balance out the organic forms of the individual pieces. Today, I’ll be bringing the rest of the Umbels up to the arboretum to install, hope you can come see this piece in person!
Join me for the opening of this fantastic exhibition at the UCSC Arboretum, May 20th from 3- 6. The exhibit will be up until November 27th. Pieces from this series will be made available in the online shop and then there will be a ‘picking day’ where you can pick your umbel flowers and transplant them into your own gardens.
Environmental Installations | Art in the Arboretum | curated by Susana Arias
Thanks to everyone who came out to support the arts last weekend for our Spring Studio Sale! We had a great time, showing art, eating tacos and enjoying the music with you! Now, on to the next art event…
Join me for the opening of Art in the Arboretum: Environmental Installations
Exhibit runs May 20th – Nov 27th
Opening May 20th from 3 – 6
($5 admission fee to the arboretum for non-members)
I have two installations as a part of this exhibit, the Umbel Series which was inspired by the tale of California explorers using mustard flower seeds to mark trails from mission to mission and Tree Pools, seed pod inspired ceramic forms nestled into the earth around the base of trees, echo the ripples of a stone thrown into water.
Hope to see you in the gardens!