“I enjoy teaching this craft to others as I believe slow art to be one of the antidotes to the franticness of modern life.”
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Jackson, Wyoming &
Sebastopol, California
valerieseaberg.com
307-413-3387
About
“I am continually inspired by the knowledge that I practice an ancient artistry, creating objects at once functional and sacred. Intact indigenous cultures all over the world still weave and fire their work as I do. That art has provided beauty and sustainability from the first moment. I see myself as standing in a long, line of artisans creating these vessels. As time moves forward, my work will become a part of the natural evolution of this art’s history."
Wyoming artist Valerie Seaberg describes herself as an ocean child destined for mountain life. Her mixed media vessels are like great, tumbled beach combing finds, undulating clay forms encircled by pine needles or horsehair. They are high country marriages between an ancient ocean and raw land. Valerie Seaberg's works are muscular, sensual and convey a deep sense of time, earth, and element.
Seaberg discovered basket making while living and teaching in a remote northern California healing arts school. She was thrilled to craft vessels from the grasses at her feet.
Coiling is slow art. It takes a long time to express an idea and to see the movement of a form realized. It is both meticulous and profoundly meditative work. "I enjoy teaching this craft to others as I believe slow art to be one of the antidotes to the franticness of modern life."
“What I hope for is that when people experience my work they are called to remember their place in the web of life and the family of everyday things. ”
