In Your Backyard, a solo exhibition by Kate Buzzell

In Your Backyard, a solo exhibition by Kate Buzzell

The Evelyn Peeler Peacock Gallery at The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes (The ARTS Council) is excited to announce In Your Backyard, a solo exhibition by Kate Buzzell will be on view from Monday, August 31, through Friday, October 2.

Join us for the opening reception on Thursday, September 3, from 5-7pm. An artist talk will begin at 6pm. This event, at The ARTS Council, 79 West Market St., in Corning, NY is free and open to the public.

Can’t make the reception? Come explore this show during regular gallery hours of M – F, 9am – 5pm.

About Kate
Kate Buzzell is a ceramicist and sculptor working primarily in hand-built stoneware. She grew up in Corning, New York, and earned her BFA with a concentration in Ceramics from the University of Southern Maine. After working film industry Kate returned her focus back to the natural world of her upstate New York roots, recreating the plants and creatures native to the Northeast in clay. She’s a teaching artist in Elmira and Corning, leading multi-arts, ceramics, and jewelry-making classes for all ages at 171 Cedar Arts Center.

From the Artist – About In Your Backyard
“…Nature also reminds me that nothing thrives alone. The bee needs the flower, which needs the soil, which needs the fungi threading beneath it. Each one is part of an ecosystem, an entire community, holding itself up together the same way we do. It offers itself freely, only asking that if we do appreciate it we play a small part in keeping it healthy. This idea of symbiotic support has become even more palpable in my own life in the past year as I welcomed my first child into the world…

In Your Backyard began as a love letter to the plants, insects, birds, and small creatures I grew up with: a backyard-scale mural of fifteen hand-built stoneware wall panels tracing a walk through my inspiration. If you take a piece home with you, know that you carry a small piece of this place, and of everyone who has stood in this room with you. We are not isolated individuals. We are part of a larger, living system: one that depends on one another to keep it thriving.”

Find out more about Kate and In Your Backyard!
https://eARTS.org/in-the-gallery/current-exhibit