![]() ![]() She is currently working on a sculpture for the City of Shoreline. She is excited to announce that she has accepted a scholarship to attend Forging Focus, a six-week blacksmithing intensive this year. Her work has been shown at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Seattle Center, Center on Contemporary Art, Soil Gallery, Price Sculpture Park, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, and Hybrid Space. Fetterman attended Bennington College and the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI). Sarah Fetterman is a Seattle-based artist. Rebirth much like that of spring, which brings new and renewed life to us after its long awaited re-entry. This piece speaks to motherhood’s roll in both myth and reality, in re-birth, agriculture, and fertility. While creating ‘Belly’, I was thinking about the feminine curves of my body that came through my lineage from my grandmother. I wanted the colors in the work to reflect the brightness and excitement, while also fading out at times to speak to where this transition began. Even though it is part of a yearly cycle, spring feels new every time. As we are nearing the turning point toward warmer weather and the colorful flowers and skies of spring, I wanted to create a sort of portal to demarcate and embrace this transition. Something everyone goes through together. It felt like a rite of passage when I first moved to Washington. Winter and Spring in Stained Glass is a rumination on the journey we take every winter. * This project is funded by a Seattle Department of Neighborhoods Matching Fund Grant.ġ | Sarah Fetterman “Winter and Spring in Stained Glass” & “Belly” The installations will be viewable daily (best viewed from dusk to dawn) until April 10. The Clouds are Lifting event is April 7th, 2023 from 7:30-9:30pm where all light-art installations and performances will be open and free to all. Emerging from our safe spaces to create new ones both with, as well as within our community. The clouds have lifted and thus shall we. Some Pagan religions honor the arrival of Cybele, The Great Mother of the Gods, who is associated with motherhood, nature, fertility and agriculture. Mayans and their descendants gather during the equinox to celebrate the “dance of light and shadow” upon their pyramids. Traditionally, the equinox was celebrated as a time to release stagnant energy within one’s self and one’s surroundings. We witness the return of the light, longer days, new growth and a natural reset. These seasonal transitions are especially notable because they signal a turning point. We’ve made it through a long, dark winter and now we are ready to collectively embrace the coming of spring. The time of hibernation has officially ended. ![]()
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