INCEPTION: FIREHOUSE ART CENTER EDUCATORS SHOWCASE

INCEPTION is a group show highlighting the art educators that teach at the Firehouse Art Center. These sixteen artists create in a wide range of mediums and teach classes in just as wide a range. The collection of works honors the seed or spark of imagination that these educators plant in their students, one that hopefully grows into a lifelong love of creating.

The classes offered range in skill level, from the Basics of Drawing, taught by Charis Lillene Fleshner, to more advanced techniques, such as glaze mixing and surface design for ceramics, to be taught by Valerie Langlois of Prims Pottery.

In INCEPTION, multiple artists work with unconventional materials, showing the boundless nature of creativity. Through unique fabrication, Steffie Notion and Elaine Waterman push the boundaries on what is fashion. Makenzie Davis uses traditional papermaking techniques but plays with the sculptural elements. Charis Lillene Fleshner uses realistic drawing techniques of her Dirty Laundry to reframe the banal into the language of “what lies beneath”. Each artist educator shows the viewer what they can expect to create in class, but with a twist that also reveals who they are as a creative.