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July 05th, 2017

7/5/2017

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Please join me on opening night 
​ for an evening of live music, refreshments, 3D art & living artists!

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Clay Sculpture, Nan Memories Collected by Vicki Gunter 

It is a bittersweet honor that this work was juried into the 2017 Clay & Glass Biennial. 
Nan Memories Collected is a portrait and celebration of my friend & sister-in-law, Nan Brown, a professional photographer, known for her black & white series Trailers Collected. She studied with Ansel Adams & taught his Zone System. She preferred that process & her Hasselblad 500c camera to digital.
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October 01st, 2016

10/1/2016

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Social Justice: It Happens to One, It Happens to All
Now through Dec 11, 2006 @ St Mary's College Museum, Moraga CA 
​http://www.stmarys-ca.edu/saint-marys-college-museum-of-art

Some people have requested my 2 minutes from, In Conversation With the Artists.
We were asked to answer the question of what inspired us to create social justice art.

Hello! I’m Vicki Gunter. My home and studio are in east Oakland. I work with clay from the earth to defend the earth.

For me, as a child, backpacking was the best!
In the natural world everything made sense. It was hard work. It was beautiful, sometimes scary, but simple. 

Later, I understood…food, home, clothes, tools, toys all come from the ‘clay’ of the earth.

In 1963, during the civil rights movement, I was 12, on a road trip through the southern U.S.- following riots, city after city, I was awakened & shocked by the treatment toward black people.

In ’68 at San Francisco State, besides ceramics, I was swept-up in the anti war, ecology and student civil rights movements; including the longest strike on any campus in history, resulting in the first Ethnic Studies school. 

In ’95, Pacific Lumber was planning to cut down the last 2,000 year old Redwoods. 1,000’s demonstrated, 264 of us were arrested. Too many to jail, we were handcuffed in prison buses. The 7,500 (7,472) acre Headwaters Reserve was established, protecting the last Old Growth Redwood Forest on earth.

I also worked with, Jane Brown, a pioneer in dance & healing arts. I spent 33 years working as a professional dancer and dance therapy teacher. Jane’s son, a red-diaper-baby, and my dance partner, became my husband and father of our two daughters. 

The criminal 2008 crash and Occupy! birthed this piece. Which brings us to this moment; and the vision of GutfreundCornett Art, bringing us ALL together to seek Social Justice, with my hope, that we will remember to grow, gather & consume leaving the smallest fingerprint, knowing, It’s Not One Thing…It’s Everything!
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September 10th, 2016

9/10/2016

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Social Justice: It Happens to One, It Happens to All
St Mary's College Museum of Art, Moraga CA
envisioned and curated by
GutfreundCornett Art
Changing the World Through Art

​IN CONVERSATION WITH THE ARTISTS
1:15 - 2:45 Sunday, September 18, 2016
Soda Activity Center (near the museum, check in at museum lobby for directions)
Lively discussion between artists and audience about motivations for and reactions to the social justice themed works in this exhibition.  
 
RECEPTION IN THE MUSEUM COURTYARD
3:00 - 5:00 p.m., Sunday, September 18, 2016
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It's Not One Thing... It's Everything - Loss Series
​by Vicki Gunter
Showing September 18 - December 11, 2016
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SHOWS

4/29/2016

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The Artery - 2016 California Clay Competition Exhibit ​
April 29 - May 27, 2016
Reception: Friday, April 29, 2016 , 7:00 to 9:00 P.M

In Hot Water - Canaries & Elephant Series
by Vicki Gunter

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Family Portraits @ Richmond Art CenterGallery: Community Gallery
Exhibition Dates: January 12 - March 3, 2016
Reception: Saturday, February 6, 2-5 pm

Nan Memories Collected by Vicki Gunter
Juror's Award
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BEASTS ON BROADWAY @ SANTA CRUZ ART LEAGUE through November 15, 2015

CANARIES & ELEPHANTS  3 - SKY BLUES                       Reception November 1, 2015

http://www.scal.org/index.php
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shows

10/24/2015

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PLATES & TOTEMS SHOW

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at BLUE LINE ARTS GALLERY
THROUGH NOVEMBER 19, 2015

​The Coast to Coast Walk
Mile 91 Buttercups at Bampton 165 to go!

​http://www.bluelinearts.org/exhibits/5th-annual-plates-totems
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October 24th, 2015

10/24/2015

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       AUTUMN LIGHTS FESTIVAL FUND RAISER
       FOR THE GARDENS AT LAKE MERRITT

              SOLD OUT!

        October 16, 17, 2015

        Artemisia's Light

        http://gardensatlakemerritt.org/
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Shows

10/24/2015

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Currently showing through November 2015

ART SOUP @ OAKOPOLIS GALLERY - OAKLAND CA

Tapped Out is number 7 in my
Canaries & Elephants series - my newest 

... subtly kinetic ...


http://www.oakopolis.org/october-arrivals/
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