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Exhibit: Jan. 9 - Feb. 20, 2011
Reception: Sunday, Jan. 9, 2-4 pm
Sandra (Hudson) Keller, clay artist, was first inspired by earth and clay while growing up on a farm in the Smoky Valley in Kansas. As a child sitting barefoot in her father's freshly plowed furrow, she loved the smell of the earth, the feel and glow of the dark brown gloss the earth cast in the sunlight.
Sandra (Soni) Keller will have her Sculptor's Garden of Portraits at the Deines Cultural Center, 820 N. Main in Russell, from January 9 through February 20. The exhibit begins with an opening reception Sunday, January 9 from 2 to 4 pm.
Keller says, "Learning to be resourceful from my mother was the road which led to my creativity. Later, I learned about clay my senior year in high school, where Richard Luster, art teacher at Lindsborg Rural High School, influenced me enough to later become a clay artist."
Keller studied clay and attended workshops under Kansas artists Gordon Zahradnik and Ray Kahmeyer as well as Warren MacKenzie, Philippe Faraut, Lincoln Fox, Walt Horton, Bruno Lucchesi, Vincent Aniano, all nationally recognized for their outstanding sculpture. She is currently studying with Babs Mellor, clay sculpture instructor at the Wichita Center for the Arts and working with Mellor sculpting the South Vietnamese War Memorial in Wichita.
She enjoys giving sculpture demonstrations for art events and school groups and has won awards at the ROAR show, in the Professional Art category at the Kansas State Fair, at the Wichita Center for the Arts. She says it is her desire to create beauty through sculpture by using earth as her medium, whether fired clay or bronze.
The Deines Cultural Center is located at 820 North Main in Russell, admission is free and the Center is open Tuesday through Friday from 12:30 to 5:30 pm, Saturday and Sunday 1:00 to 5:00. The Center is accessible to those with disabilities.
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