Heaven and Earth 1: 2009 Heaven and Earth 2: 2010 Heaven and Earth 3: 2011 Heaven and Earth 4: 2012 Heaven and Earth 5: 2013 Heaven and Earth 6: 2014 Google+ Facebook Pinterest Printable Maps (pdf format): Coming Soon Sponsored by: Center on Contemporary Art Carkeek Park Advisory Council Seattle Parks and Recreation Associated Recreational Council Supported by: Seattle Office of Arts & Culture 4CULTURE United Reprographics contact Thendara Kida-Gee to help support this year's show and artists.		Kristin Schimik Seattle, WA http://kristin-schimik.weebly.com/ Spiral Set Art making, for me, is a visual and spatial act to honor the overlooked. Good art has heart. The heart serves to integrate a fragmented consciousness. My work takes many forms: sculpture, objects, installation, and public projects that respond to a given site. Of interest in all cases is the question of value. How can I honor what is overlooked and often discarded? Creation occurs in a state of reverence and appreciation for my surroundings. Through focusing my hands and body in the ritual and repetition of art making, the process and the tangible outcome becomes a deeper gesture of gratitude and awareness. Bio: Kristin Schimik is a sculptor originally from Michigan, who lives and works in Seattle, Washington. Recent exhibitions include JUNCTURE: New Sculpture, in January 2014, and A Meditation for Carbon, in March 2013, at The Gallery at Pottery Northwest, Seattle. Schimik was awarded a grant from 4Culture SiteSpecific in 2013 for The Infinity Loop Project, an installation sculpture and performance at the historic Renton Mine Hoist Foundation in Washington State. Her work has been included in the 2012 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale in Taipei, Taiwan and Alchemy: From Dust to Form at the Harn Museum of Art, Florida. Schimik holds a BFA in Sculpture from Northern Michigan University and was awarded a Graduate Fellowship from the University of Florida while earning her MFA in Ceramic Sculpture in 2010.