micro/MACRO
University of Wisconsin-Stout
Vincent Pontillo-Verrastro
Faculty
stack’a dimes, 2020
Fine silver, sterling silver
“Currently I am interested in how the colloquial welding term ‘stack of dimes’ can operate as a metaphoric device to articulate my thoughts on preciousness, intimacy, and connection.”
Teresa Moehrke
BFA Candidate
Great Grandma, 2019
Polymer clay, resin, salt, mica, ink, acrylic, wax
“Great Grandma is a glimpse into family connections and the passing of lineage. Creating abstract forms related to memories of food, it is my intent to create a conversation.”
Masako Onodera
Faculty
Vestiges, 2019
Silver plated tray, sterling silver, stainless steel, gold thread, garnet
“When I hiked in southern Utah, I saw lichens on sandstones that are hundreds to thousands of years old. I was inspired by the strength of the simple organisms that often grow less than a millimeter a year. It gave me a realization that everything takes time to advance.”
Chloe Darke
Faculty
Brooch, 2019
Sterling silver, steel, agar, bacteria colonies, resin
“This piece references the activities that take place in a laboratory. These environments are where the microscopic world is augmented and made easily observable. Elements of the outside world can be distilled and recreated as a microcosm in a Petri dish, transforming something almost invisible from the greater environment around us into something quantifiable.”
Grace Wallstead
BFA Candidate
You’re So Fucking Immature, 2019
Sterling silver, copper, enamel
“My work externalizes complex interior sensations related to dramatic and specific events. Essentially, it is the manifestation of disappointment, anguish, and hurt related to a breakup that took place solely over text. Each piece in the series relates to a specific sensation I physically felt upon reading each specific text, and justly burdens the text as its label.”
Katrina Brye
BFA Candidate
Reconstruction, 2019
Copper, sterling silver, enamel
“Reconstruction represents the struggles of moving past mistreatment and abuse. It is a reflection on the timeline of recovery and a representation of how fractured pieces may become whole again but will never be the same.”
Ali Strangstalien
BFA Candidate
Secret, 2019
Sterling silver, cubic zirconia, steel
“I aim to expose the contradictory nature of the high value that contemporary American society places upon the consumerism of cheap goods, as well as the harmful habits associated with this kind of consumerism.
Through my work, I explore the crisis of plastic pollution and how it relates to the wasteful habits that today’s throwaway society has perpetuated.”
Steve Alexis
BFA Candidate
Propagate, 2019
Thermoplastic, mica
“The handmade object is a vessel that holds a portion of the makers desire. Through wearable jewelry forms, these shed emotions are amplified in the connected form of the wearer and the object.”