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.

Storytelling is an act of collection and assembly: We grasp onto little bits of life and put them together and find meaning in how they brush against each other. I have noticed that with very few ‘bits’ and with very little ‘putting together,’ we still find meaning. The creation of a story, then, can become a process of play. The collection and assembly can be like that of a child with blocks. The logic doesn’t matter so much as the act itself. Call it a tower and it is a tower. We will find a story because we want it to be there. That inclination towards meaning 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 stories aid us in the process.

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 stories are told through sculpture, functional vessels, and drawings. Placed together, these objects tell a story that might grow a little larger.

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.

contact at prezkeeler@gmail.com

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