Join us for a First Friday Closing Reception for A Time to Heal, a project by ON::View Artist in Residence Kimberly Riner.
Sulfur Studios is pleased to welcome Kimberly Riner as our next ON::View Artist in Residence. Riner’s project, A Time to Heal, will run from August 3rd - September 5th, 2021 in our residency space. There will be a Closing Reception on Friday, September 3rd from 5 - 9PM in conjunction with First Fridays in Starland. Throughout the residency period, Riner will be collaborating with and teaching the public on Thursdays and Saturdays from 12 - 5PM. Walk-ins are welcome, participants are encouraged to sign up for a time slot via https://calendly.com/kimberlyriner
A Time to Heal Project Statement
Grief is a concept that everyone can relate to, especially after this time of a pandemic. Many lost friends and loved ones, and many more lost experiences such as graduations, weddings, jobs, or time with family. This experienced grief can be explored in the tactile medium of clay and become a way for people to connect through a physical process. Kim Riner’s ON::View Residency project, A Time to Heal, will give the community an opportunity to collaborate with the artist in the making of a Community Grief Quilt. Riner will create tiles out of black stoneware clay that the community will be invited to add textures to through pressing in items from lost loved ones or special tokens from lost experiences, textured fabric, or participants can visualize their emotions using tools and their hands. Riner will fire the tiles and begin assembling them during the residency period, allowing the public to see this part of the process. This community endeavor will be displayed during Riner’s upcoming exhibition, Impermanence, at the Savannah Cultural Arts Center Gallery in October, 2021.
Artist Bio
Kimberly Riner, Visual Arts Director at Averitt Center for the Arts, received her Masters of Fine Art
from Georgia Southern University in Sculpture with an emphasis in ceramics. Riner currently
teaches at Georgia Southern University, and Ogeechee Technical College. She is actively involved in growing the art scene in the Statesboro area, where she opened the Averitt Center’s new visual arts facility: The Roxie Remley Center for Fine Arts. Her artwork has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and is held in private collections. Exhibition venues include: Mason City, IA; Atlanta, GA; North Charleston, SC; Lake City, SC; Fort Myers, FL; Sheffield, England, UK. Riner lives with her husband, Richard and twin daughters Olivia and Alannah in Statesboro, GA.
