Kimberlee Rocca (b. 1970) is a Midwestern artist based in Solon, Iowa, whose work explores the connections between water, earth, and the cosmos through layered surfaces of inks, paints, and sculptural forms. Inspired by childhood experiences stargazing beside a Pennsylvania lake, her Watermarks & Constellations collection captures moments suspended between creation and becoming, inviting viewers to reflect on curiosity, connectivity, and the lasting impact of even the smallest touch. 

Artist Reception Sept 18th 5pm - 7pm

Artist Talk 6pm

On View Sept 11th - Oct 17th

Windbent, Waterworn

Artist Statement by Jennifer Lee

I moved to Iowa five years ago from Ohio, and I wasn't prepared for what the land would do to me. Wind moving through miles of prairie grass, fields shifting color with the season, water carving its patient path through limestone and clay . I fell in love with a landscape I hadn't grown up knowing. This body of work is my attempt to hold a piece of that in my hands.

Each vessel starts as a slab or coil, built slowly and unevenly, the way I imagine the land itself was built. Ridges pressed into clay echo wind moving through grass. Edges are left ruffled, uneven, like shoreline. And clay alone isn't enough. Driftwood, cord, and wire bind and mend these forms the way roots hold soil in place, the way woven fiber tangles after a storm.

Windbent speaks to the way this landscape shapes everything that lives in it. Waterworn speaks to time, the slow work of erosion, and the resilience of things that keep their shape as their edges soften. This show is my love letter to this place, and I hope these pieces slow you down the way this land has slowed me.

On View Sept 29th - Dec 30th

Located in the Stanton Gallery

Kimberlee Rocca (b. 1970) is a Midwestern artist based in Solon, Iowa, whose work explores the connections between water, earth, and the cosmos through layered surfaces of inks, paints, and sculptural forms. Inspired by childhood experiences stargazing beside a Pennsylvania lake, her Watermarks & Constellations collection captures moments suspended between creation and becoming, inviting viewers to reflect on curiosity, connectivity, and the lasting impact of even the smallest touch. 

Artist Reception Sept 18th 5pm - 7pm

Artist Talk 6pm

On View Sept 11th - Oct 17th

Windbent, Waterworn

Artist Statement by Jennifer Lee

I moved to Iowa five years ago from Ohio, and I wasn't prepared for what the land would do to me. Wind moving through miles of prairie grass, fields shifting color with the season, water carving its patient path through limestone and clay . I fell in love with a landscape I hadn't grown up knowing. This body of work is my attempt to hold a piece of that in my hands.

Each vessel starts as a slab or coil, built slowly and unevenly, the way I imagine the land itself was built. Ridges pressed into clay echo wind moving through grass. Edges are left ruffled, uneven, like shoreline. And clay alone isn't enough. Driftwood, cord, and wire bind and mend these forms the way roots hold soil in place, the way woven fiber tangles after a storm.

Windbent speaks to the way this landscape shapes everything that lives in it. Waterworn speaks to time, the slow work of erosion, and the resilience of things that keep their shape as their edges soften. This show is my love letter to this place, and I hope these pieces slow you down the way this land has slowed me.

On View Sept 29th - Dec 30th

Located in the Stanton Gallery

Kimberlee Rocca (b. 1970) is a Midwestern artist based in Solon, Iowa, whose work explores the connections between water, earth, and the cosmos through layered surfaces of inks, paints, and sculptural forms. Inspired by childhood experiences stargazing beside a Pennsylvania lake, her Watermarks & Constellations collection captures moments suspended between creation and becoming, inviting viewers to reflect on curiosity, connectivity, and the lasting impact of even the smallest touch. 

Artist Reception Sept 18th 5pm - 7pm

Artist Talk 6pm

On View Sept 11th - Oct 17th

Windbent, Waterworn

Artist Statement by Jennifer Lee

I moved to Iowa five years ago from Ohio, and I wasn't prepared for what the land would do to me. Wind moving through miles of prairie grass, fields shifting color with the season, water carving its patient path through limestone and clay . I fell in love with a landscape I hadn't grown up knowing. This body of work is my attempt to hold a piece of that in my hands.

Each vessel starts as a slab or coil, built slowly and unevenly, the way I imagine the land itself was built. Ridges pressed into clay echo wind moving through grass. Edges are left ruffled, uneven, like shoreline. And clay alone isn't enough. Driftwood, cord, and wire bind and mend these forms the way roots hold soil in place, the way woven fiber tangles after a storm.

Windbent speaks to the way this landscape shapes everything that lives in it. Waterworn speaks to time, the slow work of erosion, and the resilience of things that keep their shape as their edges soften. This show is my love letter to this place, and I hope these pieces slow you down the way this land has slowed me.

On View Sept 29th - Dec 30th

Located in the Stanton Gallery

Kimberlee Rocca (b. 1970) is a Midwestern artist based in Solon, Iowa, whose work explores the connections between water, earth, and the cosmos through layered surfaces of inks, paints, and sculptural forms. Inspired by childhood experiences stargazing beside a Pennsylvania lake, her Watermarks & Constellations collection captures moments suspended between creation and becoming, inviting viewers to reflect on curiosity, connectivity, and the lasting impact of even the smallest touch. 

Artist Reception Sept 18th 5pm - 7pm

Artist Talk 6pm

On View Sept 11th - Oct 17th

Windbent, Waterworn

Artist Statement by Jennifer Lee

I moved to Iowa five years ago from Ohio, and I wasn't prepared for what the land would do to me. Wind moving through miles of prairie grass, fields shifting color with the season, water carving its patient path through limestone and clay . I fell in love with a landscape I hadn't grown up knowing. This body of work is my attempt to hold a piece of that in my hands.

Each vessel starts as a slab or coil, built slowly and unevenly, the way I imagine the land itself was built. Ridges pressed into clay echo wind moving through grass. Edges are left ruffled, uneven, like shoreline. And clay alone isn't enough. Driftwood, cord, and wire bind and mend these forms the way roots hold soil in place, the way woven fiber tangles after a storm.

Windbent speaks to the way this landscape shapes everything that lives in it. Waterworn speaks to time, the slow work of erosion, and the resilience of things that keep their shape as their edges soften. This show is my love letter to this place, and I hope these pieces slow you down the way this land has slowed me.

On View Sept 29th - Dec 30th

Located in the Stanton Gallery

Kimberlee Rocca (b. 1970) is a Midwestern artist based in Solon, Iowa, whose work explores the connections between water, earth, and the cosmos through layered surfaces of inks, paints, and sculptural forms. Inspired by childhood experiences stargazing beside a Pennsylvania lake, her Watermarks & Constellations collection captures moments suspended between creation and becoming, inviting viewers to reflect on curiosity, connectivity, and the lasting impact of even the smallest touch. 

Artist Reception Sept 18th 5pm - 7pm

Artist Talk 6pm

On View Sept 11th - Oct 17th

Windbent, Waterworn

Artist Statement by Jennifer Lee

I moved to Iowa five years ago from Ohio, and I wasn't prepared for what the land would do to me. Wind moving through miles of prairie grass, fields shifting color with the season, water carving its patient path through limestone and clay . I fell in love with a landscape I hadn't grown up knowing. This body of work is my attempt to hold a piece of that in my hands.

Each vessel starts as a slab or coil, built slowly and unevenly, the way I imagine the land itself was built. Ridges pressed into clay echo wind moving through grass. Edges are left ruffled, uneven, like shoreline. And clay alone isn't enough. Driftwood, cord, and wire bind and mend these forms the way roots hold soil in place, the way woven fiber tangles after a storm.

Windbent speaks to the way this landscape shapes everything that lives in it. Waterworn speaks to time, the slow work of erosion, and the resilience of things that keep their shape as their edges soften. This show is my love letter to this place, and I hope these pieces slow you down the way this land has slowed me.

On View Sept 29th - Dec 30th

Located in the Stanton Gallery

Kimberlee Rocca (b. 1970) is a Midwestern artist based in Solon, Iowa, whose work explores the connections between water, earth, and the cosmos through layered surfaces of inks, paints, and sculptural forms. Inspired by childhood experiences stargazing beside a Pennsylvania lake, her Watermarks & Constellations collection captures moments suspended between creation and becoming, inviting viewers to reflect on curiosity, connectivity, and the lasting impact of even the smallest touch. 

Artist Reception Sept 18th 5pm - 7pm

Artist Talk 6pm

On View Sept 11th - Oct 17th

Windbent, Waterworn

Artist Statement by Jennifer Lee

I moved to Iowa five years ago from Ohio, and I wasn't prepared for what the land would do to me. Wind moving through miles of prairie grass, fields shifting color with the season, water carving its patient path through limestone and clay . I fell in love with a landscape I hadn't grown up knowing. This body of work is my attempt to hold a piece of that in my hands.

Each vessel starts as a slab or coil, built slowly and unevenly, the way I imagine the land itself was built. Ridges pressed into clay echo wind moving through grass. Edges are left ruffled, uneven, like shoreline. And clay alone isn't enough. Driftwood, cord, and wire bind and mend these forms the way roots hold soil in place, the way woven fiber tangles after a storm.

Windbent speaks to the way this landscape shapes everything that lives in it. Waterworn speaks to time, the slow work of erosion, and the resilience of things that keep their shape as their edges soften. This show is my love letter to this place, and I hope these pieces slow you down the way this land has slowed me.

On View Sept 29th - Dec 30th

Located in the Stanton Gallery

Kimberlee Rocca (b. 1970) is a Midwestern artist based in Solon, Iowa, whose work explores the connections between water, earth, and the cosmos through layered surfaces of inks, paints, and sculptural forms. Inspired by childhood experiences stargazing beside a Pennsylvania lake, her Watermarks & Constellations collection captures moments suspended between creation and becoming, inviting viewers to reflect on curiosity, connectivity, and the lasting impact of even the smallest touch. 

Artist Reception Sept 18th 5pm - 7pm

Artist Talk 6pm

On View Sept 11th - Oct 17th

Windbent, Waterworn

Artist Statement by Jennifer Lee

I moved to Iowa five years ago from Ohio, and I wasn't prepared for what the land would do to me. Wind moving through miles of prairie grass, fields shifting color with the season, water carving its patient path through limestone and clay . I fell in love with a landscape I hadn't grown up knowing. This body of work is my attempt to hold a piece of that in my hands.

Each vessel starts as a slab or coil, built slowly and unevenly, the way I imagine the land itself was built. Ridges pressed into clay echo wind moving through grass. Edges are left ruffled, uneven, like shoreline. And clay alone isn't enough. Driftwood, cord, and wire bind and mend these forms the way roots hold soil in place, the way woven fiber tangles after a storm.

Windbent speaks to the way this landscape shapes everything that lives in it. Waterworn speaks to time, the slow work of erosion, and the resilience of things that keep their shape as their edges soften. This show is my love letter to this place, and I hope these pieces slow you down the way this land has slowed me.

On View Sept 29th - Dec 30th

Located in the Stanton Gallery

Kimberlee Rocca (b. 1970) is a Midwestern artist based in Solon, Iowa, whose work explores the connections between water, earth, and the cosmos through layered surfaces of inks, paints, and sculptural forms. Inspired by childhood experiences stargazing beside a Pennsylvania lake, her Watermarks & Constellations collection captures moments suspended between creation and becoming, inviting viewers to reflect on curiosity, connectivity, and the lasting impact of even the smallest touch. 

Artist Reception Sept 18th 5pm - 7pm

Artist Talk 6pm

On View Sept 11th - Oct 17th

Windbent, Waterworn

Artist Statement by Jennifer Lee

I moved to Iowa five years ago from Ohio, and I wasn't prepared for what the land would do to me. Wind moving through miles of prairie grass, fields shifting color with the season, water carving its patient path through limestone and clay . I fell in love with a landscape I hadn't grown up knowing. This body of work is my attempt to hold a piece of that in my hands.

Each vessel starts as a slab or coil, built slowly and unevenly, the way I imagine the land itself was built. Ridges pressed into clay echo wind moving through grass. Edges are left ruffled, uneven, like shoreline. And clay alone isn't enough. Driftwood, cord, and wire bind and mend these forms the way roots hold soil in place, the way woven fiber tangles after a storm.

Windbent speaks to the way this landscape shapes everything that lives in it. Waterworn speaks to time, the slow work of erosion, and the resilience of things that keep their shape as their edges soften. This show is my love letter to this place, and I hope these pieces slow you down the way this land has slowed me.

On View Sept 29th - Dec 30th

Located in the Stanton Gallery

Windbent, Waterworn

Artist Statement by Jennifer Lee

I moved to Iowa five years ago from Ohio, and I wasn't prepared for what the land would do to me. Wind moving through miles of prairie grass, fields shifting color with the season, water carving its patient path through limestone and clay . I fell in love with a landscape I hadn't grown up knowing. This body of work is my attempt to hold a piece of that in my hands.

Each vessel starts as a slab or coil, built slowly and unevenly, the way I imagine the land itself was built. Ridges pressed into clay echo wind moving through grass. Edges are left ruffled, uneven, like shoreline. And clay alone isn't enough. Driftwood, cord, and wire bind and mend these forms the way roots hold soil in place, the way woven fiber tangles after a storm.

Windbent speaks to the way this landscape shapes everything that lives in it. Waterworn speaks to time, the slow work of erosion, and the resilience of things that keep their shape as their edges soften. This show is my love letter to this place, and I hope these pieces slow you down the way this land has slowed me.

On View Sept 29th - Dec 30th

Located in the Stanton Gallery

Windbent, Waterworn

Artist Statement by Jennifer Lee

I moved to Iowa five years ago from Ohio, and I wasn't prepared for what the land would do to me. Wind moving through miles of prairie grass, fields shifting color with the season, water carving its patient path through limestone and clay . I fell in love with a landscape I hadn't grown up knowing. This body of work is my attempt to hold a piece of that in my hands.

Each vessel starts as a slab or coil, built slowly and unevenly, the way I imagine the land itself was built. Ridges pressed into clay echo wind moving through grass. Edges are left ruffled, uneven, like shoreline. And clay alone isn't enough. Driftwood, cord, and wire bind and mend these forms the way roots hold soil in place, the way woven fiber tangles after a storm.

Windbent speaks to the way this landscape shapes everything that lives in it. Waterworn speaks to time, the slow work of erosion, and the resilience of things that keep their shape as their edges soften. This show is my love letter to this place, and I hope these pieces slow you down the way this land has slowed me.

On View Sept 29th - Dec 30th

Located in the Stanton Gallery

Windbent, Waterworn

Artist Statement by Jennifer Lee

I moved to Iowa five years ago from Ohio, and I wasn't prepared for what the land would do to me. Wind moving through miles of prairie grass, fields shifting color with the season, water carving its patient path through limestone and clay . I fell in love with a landscape I hadn't grown up knowing. This body of work is my attempt to hold a piece of that in my hands.

Each vessel starts as a slab or coil, built slowly and unevenly, the way I imagine the land itself was built. Ridges pressed into clay echo wind moving through grass. Edges are left ruffled, uneven, like shoreline. And clay alone isn't enough. Driftwood, cord, and wire bind and mend these forms the way roots hold soil in place, the way woven fiber tangles after a storm.

Windbent speaks to the way this landscape shapes everything that lives in it. Waterworn speaks to time, the slow work of erosion, and the resilience of things that keep their shape as their edges soften. This show is my love letter to this place, and I hope these pieces slow you down the way this land has slowed me.

On View Sept 29th - Dec 30th

Located in the Stanton Gallery

Windbent, Waterworn

Artist Statement by Jennifer Lee

I moved to Iowa five years ago from Ohio, and I wasn't prepared for what the land would do to me. Wind moving through miles of prairie grass, fields shifting color with the season, water carving its patient path through limestone and clay . I fell in love with a landscape I hadn't grown up knowing. This body of work is my attempt to hold a piece of that in my hands.

Each vessel starts as a slab or coil, built slowly and unevenly, the way I imagine the land itself was built. Ridges pressed into clay echo wind moving through grass. Edges are left ruffled, uneven, like shoreline. And clay alone isn't enough. Driftwood, cord, and wire bind and mend these forms the way roots hold soil in place, the way woven fiber tangles after a storm.

Windbent speaks to the way this landscape shapes everything that lives in it. Waterworn speaks to time, the slow work of erosion, and the resilience of things that keep their shape as their edges soften. This show is my love letter to this place, and I hope these pieces slow you down the way this land has slowed me.

On View Sept 29th - Dec 30th

Located in the Stanton Gallery

Windbent, Waterworn

Artist Statement by Jennifer Lee

I moved to Iowa five years ago from Ohio, and I wasn't prepared for what the land would do to me. Wind moving through miles of prairie grass, fields shifting color with the season, water carving its patient path through limestone and clay . I fell in love with a landscape I hadn't grown up knowing. This body of work is my attempt to hold a piece of that in my hands.

Each vessel starts as a slab or coil, built slowly and unevenly, the way I imagine the land itself was built. Ridges pressed into clay echo wind moving through grass. Edges are left ruffled, uneven, like shoreline. And clay alone isn't enough. Driftwood, cord, and wire bind and mend these forms the way roots hold soil in place, the way woven fiber tangles after a storm.

Windbent speaks to the way this landscape shapes everything that lives in it. Waterworn speaks to time, the slow work of erosion, and the resilience of things that keep their shape as their edges soften. This show is my love letter to this place, and I hope these pieces slow you down the way this land has slowed me.

On View Sept 29th - Dec 30th

Located in the Stanton Gallery

Windbent, Waterworn

Artist Statement by Jennifer Lee

I moved to Iowa five years ago from Ohio, and I wasn't prepared for what the land would do to me. Wind moving through miles of prairie grass, fields shifting color with the season, water carving its patient path through limestone and clay . I fell in love with a landscape I hadn't grown up knowing. This body of work is my attempt to hold a piece of that in my hands.

Each vessel starts as a slab or coil, built slowly and unevenly, the way I imagine the land itself was built. Ridges pressed into clay echo wind moving through grass. Edges are left ruffled, uneven, like shoreline. And clay alone isn't enough. Driftwood, cord, and wire bind and mend these forms the way roots hold soil in place, the way woven fiber tangles after a storm.

Windbent speaks to the way this landscape shapes everything that lives in it. Waterworn speaks to time, the slow work of erosion, and the resilience of things that keep their shape as their edges soften. This show is my love letter to this place, and I hope these pieces slow you down the way this land has slowed me.

On View Sept 29th - Dec 30th

Located in the Stanton Gallery

Windbent, Waterworn

Artist Statement by Jennifer Lee

I moved to Iowa five years ago from Ohio, and I wasn't prepared for what the land would do to me. Wind moving through miles of prairie grass, fields shifting color with the season, water carving its patient path through limestone and clay . I fell in love with a landscape I hadn't grown up knowing. This body of work is my attempt to hold a piece of that in my hands.

Each vessel starts as a slab or coil, built slowly and unevenly, the way I imagine the land itself was built. Ridges pressed into clay echo wind moving through grass. Edges are left ruffled, uneven, like shoreline. And clay alone isn't enough. Driftwood, cord, and wire bind and mend these forms the way roots hold soil in place, the way woven fiber tangles after a storm.

Windbent speaks to the way this landscape shapes everything that lives in it. Waterworn speaks to time, the slow work of erosion, and the resilience of things that keep their shape as their edges soften. This show is my love letter to this place, and I hope these pieces slow you down the way this land has slowed me.

On View Sept 29th - Dec 30th

Located in the Stanton Gallery

Windbent, Waterworn

Artist Statement by Jennifer Lee

I moved to Iowa five years ago from Ohio, and I wasn't prepared for what the land would do to me. Wind moving through miles of prairie grass, fields shifting color with the season, water carving its patient path through limestone and clay . I fell in love with a landscape I hadn't grown up knowing. This body of work is my attempt to hold a piece of that in my hands.

Each vessel starts as a slab or coil, built slowly and unevenly, the way I imagine the land itself was built. Ridges pressed into clay echo wind moving through grass. Edges are left ruffled, uneven, like shoreline. And clay alone isn't enough. Driftwood, cord, and wire bind and mend these forms the way roots hold soil in place, the way woven fiber tangles after a storm.

Windbent speaks to the way this landscape shapes everything that lives in it. Waterworn speaks to time, the slow work of erosion, and the resilience of things that keep their shape as their edges soften. This show is my love letter to this place, and I hope these pieces slow you down the way this land has slowed me.

On View Sept 29th - Dec 30th

Located in the Stanton Gallery

Windbent, Waterworn

Artist Statement by Jennifer Lee

I moved to Iowa five years ago from Ohio, and I wasn't prepared for what the land would do to me. Wind moving through miles of prairie grass, fields shifting color with the season, water carving its patient path through limestone and clay . I fell in love with a landscape I hadn't grown up knowing. This body of work is my attempt to hold a piece of that in my hands.

Each vessel starts as a slab or coil, built slowly and unevenly, the way I imagine the land itself was built. Ridges pressed into clay echo wind moving through grass. Edges are left ruffled, uneven, like shoreline. And clay alone isn't enough. Driftwood, cord, and wire bind and mend these forms the way roots hold soil in place, the way woven fiber tangles after a storm.

Windbent speaks to the way this landscape shapes everything that lives in it. Waterworn speaks to time, the slow work of erosion, and the resilience of things that keep their shape as their edges soften. This show is my love letter to this place, and I hope these pieces slow you down the way this land has slowed me.

On View Sept 29th - Dec 30th

Located in the Stanton Gallery

Windbent, Waterworn

Artist Statement by Jennifer Lee

I moved to Iowa five years ago from Ohio, and I wasn't prepared for what the land would do to me. Wind moving through miles of prairie grass, fields shifting color with the season, water carving its patient path through limestone and clay . I fell in love with a landscape I hadn't grown up knowing. This body of work is my attempt to hold a piece of that in my hands.

Each vessel starts as a slab or coil, built slowly and unevenly, the way I imagine the land itself was built. Ridges pressed into clay echo wind moving through grass. Edges are left ruffled, uneven, like shoreline. And clay alone isn't enough. Driftwood, cord, and wire bind and mend these forms the way roots hold soil in place, the way woven fiber tangles after a storm.

Windbent speaks to the way this landscape shapes everything that lives in it. Waterworn speaks to time, the slow work of erosion, and the resilience of things that keep their shape as their edges soften. This show is my love letter to this place, and I hope these pieces slow you down the way this land has slowed me.

On View Sept 29th - Dec 30th

Located in the Stanton Gallery

Windbent, Waterworn

Artist Statement by Jennifer Lee

I moved to Iowa five years ago from Ohio, and I wasn't prepared for what the land would do to me. Wind moving through miles of prairie grass, fields shifting color with the season, water carving its patient path through limestone and clay . I fell in love with a landscape I hadn't grown up knowing. This body of work is my attempt to hold a piece of that in my hands.

Each vessel starts as a slab or coil, built slowly and unevenly, the way I imagine the land itself was built. Ridges pressed into clay echo wind moving through grass. Edges are left ruffled, uneven, like shoreline. And clay alone isn't enough. Driftwood, cord, and wire bind and mend these forms the way roots hold soil in place, the way woven fiber tangles after a storm.

Windbent speaks to the way this landscape shapes everything that lives in it. Waterworn speaks to time, the slow work of erosion, and the resilience of things that keep their shape as their edges soften. This show is my love letter to this place, and I hope these pieces slow you down the way this land has slowed me.

On View Sept 29th - Dec 30th

Located in the Stanton Gallery

Windbent, Waterworn

Artist Statement by Jennifer Lee

I moved to Iowa five years ago from Ohio, and I wasn't prepared for what the land would do to me. Wind moving through miles of prairie grass, fields shifting color with the season, water carving its patient path through limestone and clay . I fell in love with a landscape I hadn't grown up knowing. This body of work is my attempt to hold a piece of that in my hands.

Each vessel starts as a slab or coil, built slowly and unevenly, the way I imagine the land itself was built. Ridges pressed into clay echo wind moving through grass. Edges are left ruffled, uneven, like shoreline. And clay alone isn't enough. Driftwood, cord, and wire bind and mend these forms the way roots hold soil in place, the way woven fiber tangles after a storm.

Windbent speaks to the way this landscape shapes everything that lives in it. Waterworn speaks to time, the slow work of erosion, and the resilience of things that keep their shape as their edges soften. This show is my love letter to this place, and I hope these pieces slow you down the way this land has slowed me.

On View Sept 29th - Dec 30th

Located in the Stanton Gallery

Windbent, Waterworn

Artist Statement by Jennifer Lee

I moved to Iowa five years ago from Ohio, and I wasn't prepared for what the land would do to me. Wind moving through miles of prairie grass, fields shifting color with the season, water carving its patient path through limestone and clay . I fell in love with a landscape I hadn't grown up knowing. This body of work is my attempt to hold a piece of that in my hands.

Each vessel starts as a slab or coil, built slowly and unevenly, the way I imagine the land itself was built. Ridges pressed into clay echo wind moving through grass. Edges are left ruffled, uneven, like shoreline. And clay alone isn't enough. Driftwood, cord, and wire bind and mend these forms the way roots hold soil in place, the way woven fiber tangles after a storm.

Windbent speaks to the way this landscape shapes everything that lives in it. Waterworn speaks to time, the slow work of erosion, and the resilience of things that keep their shape as their edges soften. This show is my love letter to this place, and I hope these pieces slow you down the way this land has slowed me.

On View Sept 29th - Dec 30th

Located in the Stanton Gallery

Windbent, Waterworn

Artist Statement by Jennifer Lee

I moved to Iowa five years ago from Ohio, and I wasn't prepared for what the land would do to me. Wind moving through miles of prairie grass, fields shifting color with the season, water carving its patient path through limestone and clay . I fell in love with a landscape I hadn't grown up knowing. This body of work is my attempt to hold a piece of that in my hands.

Each vessel starts as a slab or coil, built slowly and unevenly, the way I imagine the land itself was built. Ridges pressed into clay echo wind moving through grass. Edges are left ruffled, uneven, like shoreline. And clay alone isn't enough. Driftwood, cord, and wire bind and mend these forms the way roots hold soil in place, the way woven fiber tangles after a storm.

Windbent speaks to the way this landscape shapes everything that lives in it. Waterworn speaks to time, the slow work of erosion, and the resilience of things that keep their shape as their edges soften. This show is my love letter to this place, and I hope these pieces slow you down the way this land has slowed me.

On View Sept 29th - Dec 30th

Located in the Stanton Gallery