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After The Long, Long Winter came the rains and occasional dips back into snow, driving me to my studio, reuniting me with my beloved Millermatic 212, steel and copper wire . . . Welding, grinding, trips to my Ace helpful hardware folks for fittings or tools to move forward my latest idea, weaving, staining, cutting, more trips to Ace. These new works are heading out into the world. Seeds of local, community-engaged curatorial projects have been planted and now we wait to see which ones get nourished.
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A Celebration of Billings' Newest Public Sculpture: Sherri Cornett's Thicket
Join us June 7th, 5 pm under the Southeast Corner of Sky Point during Art Walk Billings
We will have a brief community discussion and launch a new resource spot on the Downtown Billings Association website - an evolving list of free to low-cost opportunities to meet others, learn something new, play, celebrate and connect with the many communities within our city. Thank you to Molly Schiltz and the Downtown Billings Association and Virginia Bryan and Art Walk Billings for making this happen. Thicket will be on display for a year and is available for purchase after that.
"Thicket:
•ubiquitous to our waterways •broken, nibbled willow and dogwood branches softened by wild clematis vine and connected by entwined roots •shelter for seeds, nests and small creatures • lush, precious weaving together of ideas, beliefs, cultures, children, families and vulnerable communities within a protective haven."
Steel, copper
57x 45.5x 45.5 x 75 inches high
$2500
[detail shot of Thicket]
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Thank you to my long-time, curly-hair specialist Lynette Riecker, owner of Serendipity Salon at 2525 Minnesota Avenue (just two blocks from my studio), for displaying my "Unwound" sculpture from my Freedom Series! I love that Old Town/South Side light!
Unwound
2018
recycled, repurposed steel and copper
81 x 26 x 21
$2000
https://www.sherricornett.com/freedom-series.html
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"Inflamed" and "Erupted" at Kirk's Grocery through August!
New Summer Hours T-FR 2-9 PM with events every night!.
2920 Minnesota Avenue, @kirksgrocery
Freedom Series in which I explore physical representations of energy released from constraint.
Inflamed
Steel, copper, river rock
94 x 35 24 inches
2019
$2000
Erupted
Steel, altered wooden fence post, paint, hardware, glue
84 x 28 x 24 inches
2018
$2000
Shane DeLeon (missmassivesnowflake@gmail.com), owner/director of Kirk's, weaves together art and performance and opportunities for high schoolers, spoken word artists, solo musicians and many others in our creative communities. Fifty percent of sales of these works will go a long way to helping Shane’s dream stay alive and expand.
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My sculpture Shelter 1: Respite has found the perfect home at the Speech and Language Ability Center! Thank you to speech pathologists Vicki Andre and Nancy Rice, who specialize in pediatric speech, language and fluency disorders. Within minutes of installing, two of their young clients took turns quietly sitting "criss-cross applesauce" inside, just as I had envisioned.
84"x42"x48"
steel, copper, tent fabric, water-resistant canvas, marine rope, cushion, paint
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Green Drinks at High Plains Architects and Sherri Cornett Open Studio
Join us Tuesday, July 30th, 2720 Minnesota Avenue, 5-7 pm.
Green Drinks is a monthly, informal gathering of environmentally-minded locals. Feel free to bring your family and friends and a reusable cup for your beverage. Saddle up to the long "bar" in my studio, have a glass of wine, beer, or perhaps some non-alcoholic jamaica, join a discussion, start one, see my new works and High Plains Architects newest LEED projects.
Shown above:
My studio bar set up from a previous Green Drinks gathering and
Ignited from my Freedom Series
2019
69 x 16 x 16 (base is 12 x 12)
$2000
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At the Zonta Club of Billings' "HearMeTooMontana ConverZations on April 28. I facilitated a far-ranging discussion, "Framing the #HearMeToo Narrative: Community Engaged Art," about how we could use art in our community to further understanding and action around violence against women and assist affected communities.
Our dialogue was kickstarted by looking at national and international artists who focus on their work on this theme. Here is the Link to PDF of the brochure I created and which includes examples from Suzanne Lacy, Rebecca Belmore, Marita Growing Thunder, Sally Beth Edelstein, Mido Lee, Ianna Brooks, SA Bachman & Neda Moridpour, Audrey Chan & Elana Mann, Eva Preston & Joanna Fulginiti, Cat del Buono, Veronica Cardoso, Carole-Anne MacFarlane, Jane Caminos, Kay Kang, Kathryn Shinko, Vanessa Filley, Jaime Schaefer ... most with whom I have had the pleasure of working.
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