Town Talk with curator Cassandra C Jones

Sunday, December 1, 4:30-6 pm

“In the Realm of Spiders” invites you to suspend your phobias about arachnids. It is a gesture to ignite wonder and interest in these tiny creatures as a positive force in nature.

Curiosity, over fear, compelled six local artists to create work about spiders. Some explored the geometry of their webs and pondered their unique personalities. Others thought abut their powerful contributions to humans as pest control and pollinators. All looked for the good in them as a species. Each acknowledged, in their own way, something special about who spiders are and what they accomplish. By doing so, they urge us to reexamine our view of them, and acknowledge their importance to all life on earth.

Artists include:

Joel Fox
Rosemary Holliday Hall
Cassandra C. Jones
Jeff Mann
Steve Sprinkle
Jamie Stratford

Special Thanks:

Louise Sandhaus

Jennifer Jordan Day

Jennie Prebor

Mikael Jorgensen

Olga and Trent Jones


Joel Fox

Web Reveal 1-5
photographs on aluminum
24"x36"
$2,300 each

Cassandra C. Jones

Sweet Peacock
Archival Digital Collage on Cotton Paper
11"x14"
$1,200

Ascii Spider
Archival Digital Collage on Cotton Paper
11"x14"
$1,200

Wet Web
Archival Digital Collage on Cotton Paper
32"x40"
$4,000

Detail of Wet Web

Rosemary Holliday Hall

Thought Lines
Fifteen ceramic tablets
Spider webs, iron oxide, and porcelain
5” x 8”
$200 Each

Swarm
Car windows, porcelain clay, steel structure
11’ x 11’ x 7’
Not for Sale

Jeff Mann

Amorphophallus Titanum
Graphite on D'Arches 260lb Hot Press Rag Paper
26.5" W x 40" H
Not for Sale
Courtesy of Shelley Scott

Jamie Stratford

Five Animated Videos
Busy Spider
Appendage Washing
Sweetheart Spiders
Breakdancing Black Widow
Black Widow Ballet

Steve Sprinkel

Tiny Arachnid

Spider, floating in quiet blue space,

a mote of vagrant dust

spinning in thermal waters.

How many lost hours

have you been holding your breath,

unfazed by dark calamity, waiting for me

to lift you into life, and crawl up the brick wall?

Now, crawl forward, tiny arachnid step by merciless step,

to your foreordained destiny beyond these shallow pools,

where one day you will serve the whole nation

as the Minister of the Environment,

a legitimate authority over all wild things.

This last stepping-stone to the presidency

will establish your place in the hearts of the people

who you will enrapture because of your dexterity

with the World Wide Web, and the bold slogan

no sane person ever would challenge:

Vote For The Spider.

She’ll do away with the flies.

By Steve Sprinkel

From the 2016 Collection

Not Putting Zapata Back on the Ten