Danielle Weigandt grew up an army brat and lived all over the southern US before her family settled in Utah. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and Art Composite Teaching degree from Weber State University in 2013. After teaching two years in junior high and middle school, she received her Masters of Fine Art degree from the University of Oklahoma in 2018. She is currently an Artist in Residence at the University of North Dakota.
Artist Statement
What is time? It cannot be seen, heard, smelled, or touched. It eludes all our senses, yet we experience it every day. Time is ubiquitous. To most, time is just a clock on the wall. A constant cycle of 24 hours resetting and repeating over and over again in a continuous loop with seemingly no end. My art gives form to these ideas in creative ways using art, geology, and quantum mechanics physics. Each cube is a product of time I call a ‘moment’ and installed together as sculpture, constitutes an ‘event’.
Going beyond just a clock on the wall, I seek to make time, a seemingly invisible event, visible. My art, given sufficient time, will work within a dynamical system that has the same behavior over time in all the different phases of creation and through site specific installations will create different interpretations of its meaning. Stemming from the idea that the process of creating the art is just as important as the object that is created, the viewer can not merely move their eyes over the work or simply walk around it for there to be understanding. The viewer must actively engage their own interpretation of what time really is. This way of making allows my work to be created in the present, while always being a representation of time past. Like time itself, my work and these forms have no end in sight.
The Edaren Foundation Presents: Gumbo Clayfest 2023 returns to TASI when ceramists descend on Beaumont July 6, 7, and 8!
No admission fee required, any donations accepted.
For the workshop: I will discuss and demonstrate the ins and outs of how I use paper clay to create my work.
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