Hope & Healing: Pamela Blotner & Carol Newborg

This joint exhibition looks at what it means to be uprooted, imprisoned, or displaced. It also looks at what can be done to regenerate a community and/or terrain destroyed or harmed by war and climate change. The plant forms in Blotner's sculptures reference both human refugees and their destroyed homes, while the tool forms- shovels, spades, and pitchforks- suggest that landscapes marred by war, wildfires and other disasters can be restored. Newborg's work reflects on the excessive sentencing in our prisons, which separate people from family and society, causing individual and generational harm. The metal forms reflect on that harm, while the textiles wrapping the metal are an expression of the healing that rehabilitation and growth can bring.