KATHERINE CORCORAN
Sculpture excites me. I like to feel the presence of a 3D object that I have made. I have worked in bronze, wood and resin. Currently my work in Urethane resin is my focus.  My sculptures vary from realism to abstract as I attempt to define my feelings about my subject. Even abstract art expresses my inner-most convictions. It just takes more effort to feather out a meaning!
A few horses and a firebird captivated my attention recently. Both are made of urethane and paper with their respective armature.
My installation piece entitled “Who’ll Stop the Rain,” is a multi-media sculpture and hung from the Pyro rafters. I love the light-weight components and spatial quality.

JAN KIRSTEIN RIGOR
In my mixed-media collages, “home” is not only a place but a relationship to self as well. Displacement can be psychological — the feeling of not belonging, even when physically present — and can often echo through the lives of those excluded for identity, belief, culture, or difference.
My use of collage as a process began at UMass Amherst. When leaving Louisville, Kentucky for graduate school I momentarily felt creatively paralyzed due to the significant cultural change from the familiar. My painting faltered and in frustration I finally tore a painting to pieces. The scraps on the floor revealed chance, like the I Ching: nothing fixed, every fragment free to move.
I build each work from Japanese rice paper, sumi-e ink, and fragments of my own paintings layered with acrylic, graphite, charcoal, and watercolor. These tokens become acts of remembrance for what has been lost — home, youth, safety, life itself.
Amid rising threats to vulnerable communities in the U.S., I offer these compositions as sites of reflection and repair. Unity is not sameness. We survive by repositioning the pieces until the composition holds us all.