My name is Rose Robinson, and I am an artist working mainly in ceramics, painting, printmaking, and storytelling, though you can also find me dancing, binding books, and sewing quilts in my free time. I was raised among the marshes of Newburyport, Massachusetts, and now share my time with the mountains of Vermont. I am a graduate of Middlebury College with a degree in Studio Art.
I saw five opossums last week. It’s cloudy. There’s beer in my fridge for the first time in a while.
This could all just be the ether. It could be the slop. The big mess of life. But opossums, clouds, and beer feel important to me right now. Together, they make a story. Storytelling is just that; an act of collection and assembly. We take hold of little bits of life and put them together, and when these bits are put together, there is meaning in how they brush against each other. When these bits are put together, we might learn something. It’s why we tell our children stories: How do we live the good life? It seems to me that with very few ‘bits’ and with very little ‘putting together,’ we still find a story. We are inclined towards meaning. That inclination comes from a very tender part of ourselves, the piece of our spirit that wants to believe and to know. It is something that exists within us from when we are very small and perhaps more in touch with the gentleness, the wildness, the vulnerability, and the awe that is inherent to learning how to live. We are always learning how to live, and we are always aided by stories. I want to tell stories that remind us that we are still learning how to live.
I have collected a visual language of people, places, things, which I store in my hands, and which I assemble and reassemble. I am interested in processes of repetition and accumulation. The resulting visual stories are told through sculpture, functional vessels, and drawings. Put together, the story might grow a little larger.
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Find my work in The New Farmer’s Almanac V: The Grand Land Plan and The New Farmer’s Almanac VI: Adjustments and Accomodations.
My pottery is currently available for sale at Momma’s Grocery in Cambridge, MA.
I have 2D work available for sale as part of the 2024-2025 Small Works Project at Gallery 263 in Cambridge, MA.
Please reach out with commission and online ordering inquiries via email.
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contact at prezkeeler@gmail.com
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