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Visiting Artist Stephanie Norris Helps Students Shape Visions in Stone Additional
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Beginning in January (and spilling over into February as unexpected snow days wreaked havoc with the Upper School schedule), Upper School artist-in-residence Stephanie James Norris worked with students in Ms. Susanne Abrams' art classes to show them how to bring shapes and figures out of alabaster and soapstone. Judging from the student pieces on display following her residency, Norris not only imparted some techniques of stone carving, she also opened students' eyes to the possibilities of the art. Ms. Norris, a CCES parent, has studied with Ferenc Varga in Delray Beach, Chris Berti at the Penland School in North Carolina, Paul Luchessi at the Art League School in Virginia, and John Nutt at the Greenville Museum of Art. Her recent exhibitions in South Carolina include the Metropolitan Arts Council Open Studios Tour in Greenville and the Greenville Museum "From the Studio" exhibition. On this page, samples of Ms. Norris's work. Use the additional links to glimpse the students at work on their pieces and displaying their completed sculptures. Artist's Statement The flash moment of visual connection, before words or intellect, is what most interests me about art. There are timeless identities in nature and humanity that endure despite cultural or current global issues. We still have owls sitting in trees; wind and weather we cannot control. My animal pieces are observations of God's creatures, the security they give by being alive and going simply about their business. The female forms represent choices and consequences, seams between body and spirit where decisions are made, where hope resides. In my work, I incorporate existing faults in the stone as important marks of age and compression and use polish to indicate resilience. By outward planes I want to express the interior life. Stephanie James Norris
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