Join us for a night at Kollektiv Clay Studio in Oakland with earth artist Hosanna White
Doors open at 6pm | Talk 6:30 -8pm
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Hosanna’s earth pigment paintings and locally foraged ceramics make a statement about our dependency on manfactured global resources.
It has always been her underlying ethos to challenge convenience and find her artistic voice within the limitations of what the landscape provides.
She has devoted that last 13 years to building a relationship with pigment and clay places, while sharing their unique + expansive geological stories as well as more recent human histories. This continuity of sourcing her creative materials where she resides has invited the question:
what does this land, these minerals want to say through her hands?
This question has guided her creative process, through time on the land listening, to unending reserach projects, environmental activism, fundraising, land restorations, exhibits, and public storytelling events.
Her story is part artist, part scientist, part mystic. The earth is an ever changing, alive, creative planet. Come hear her passionate telling of the how the earth’s techtonic artistry has shaped her life’s work.
Hosanna will have on display and for sale a collection of her earthenware and mid-range ceramics, as well as earth pigment watercolor sets, canvas and card prints of her watercolor paintings.
Hosanna White
Hosanna lives in the foothills of Western Oregon, a geologically rich landscape that has inspired her studio work, Whitesnake Arts. She blends bio-regional history and land stewardship into her artwork and place based pottery.
Hosanna is dedicated to learning slow crafts that connect her with the source of her materials and the magic that comes from transforming them for everyday use.
She has been experimenting with wild clays and local minerals for thirteen years. Over the years, a growing fascination for geology, ancient ceramics, and shaping local clay for functional use has driven her to study the elemental and historic lineages from which our modern knowledge of ceramics has come.