Studio Sessions
Decoration
with Anthony Sonnenberg
November 2024
About the Studio Session
Decoration is personal.
Decoration is political.
Decoration is powerful.
And yet, decoration has been historically marginalized. Decoration is typically considered extra instead of integral to form. It can even be seen as a slight to refer to something as ‘decorative’. How do we shift this dynamic, reclaim, and redefine decoration?
Decoration has changed the world in the past; it will change the world in the future.
About the Lead Artist
Born in 1986 in Graham, TX, Anthony Sonnenberg earned a BA with an emphasis in Italian and Art History in 2009 and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2012. His work, which ranges from porcelain to performance, has been shown across the United States and internationally. Sonnenberg lives and works in Fayetteville AR.
Notable recent exhibitions include: State of the Art II, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR (2020); I’m Going to Dance the Way I Feel, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami FL (2021); Ceramics Now, Galerie Italienne, Paris, France (2021); Cannons Buried in Flowers, Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2023).
Notable Residences include: Windgate Museum Of Art Inaugural Artist-In-Residence (2021); CSULB-CCC Summer Resident Artist, California State University, Long Beach, CA (2018); Yaddo Artist Residency - Saratoga Springs, NY (2017); Resident at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX (2016); Emerging Artist in Residence at Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood WA (2012).
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Logistics
This session is scheduled for Saturdays, November 2, 9, 16, & 23, from 10am-Noon PST (that’s Los Angeles time).
Registration is $250 and includes all four sessions.
Participants gather via Zoom.