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Artist’s Statement I pray for guidance in my work. This guidance, at its best, helps me express the wordlessness of human experience, things such as love and forgiveness. Sometimes the information comes to me in a dream, an event, or a premonition only to be understood later. My work is hand-built and sculptural. I am not locked into any particular method, and that freedom allows the material (mostly clay) to dictate where the work goes. It is always an exciting and interesting process, because I can sense that the image is already in the clay and, at the proper time, it is revealed. ABOUT MY FOUNTAINS Inspired by the beautiful flowers of the Western North Carolina Foothills, my fountains are unique and original. Each one is hand built of ceramic material, stoneware or porcelain or both and fired several times. No two are exactly alike. I enjoy the challenge of building them. Rose Tripoli Mueller, ceramic artist

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS [ top ] Solo Exhibits Spiritual Connections, Spartanburg Artists’ Guild Gallery, Arts Center, Spartanburg, SC Alice, Columbia University Library, New York, NY Brickyard, The Gallery in East Kingston, NY Group Exhibits Western Horizons, Conn Gallery, Landrum, SC 20th Annual Sculpture Celebration, J. E. Broyhill Park, Lenoir, NC Power of the Purse, Women for Women & The Community Foundation, Biltmore Estate, Asheville, NC 32nd Annual Juried Exhibit, Spartanburg County Museum of Art 31st Annual Juried Exhibit, Spartanburg County Museum of Art 19th Annual Sculpture Celebration, J.E.Broyhill Park, Lenoir, NC 6th Annual Belton Standpipe Festival Juried Art Show, Belton, SC 30th Annual Juried Exhibit, Spartanburg County Museum of Art 18th Annual Sculpture Celebration, J.E.Broyhill Park, Lenoir, NC 5th Annual Belton Standpipe Festival Juried Art Show, Belton, SC 29th Annual Juried Exhibit, Spartanburg County Museum of Art 17th Annual Sculpture Celebration, J. E. Broyhill Park, Lenoir, NC Treasures of the Earth, Cleveland County Arts Council, Shelby, NC AWARDS AND HONORS [ top ] 2005 39th Spartanburg Museum of Art Juried Show, Spartanburg, SC 2005 32nd Juried Exhibit, Artists’ Guild of Spartanburg 2003 37th Spartanburg County Museum of Art Juried Show 2002 36th Spartanburg County Museum of Art Juried Show 2002 29th Juried Exhibit, Artists’ Guild of Spartanburg 2002 Artful Clay Exhibit, Full Circle Gallery, Hickory, NC 2001 Bloomin’ Arts Festival, CCAC, Shelby, NC 2000 Charlotte Southern Women’s Show, Charlotte, NC GALLERIES [ top ] Southern Highland Craft Guild, Allenstand Shop, Asheville, NC Spartanburg Museum Shop, Spartanburg, SC Carolina Foothills Artisans Center, Chesnee, SC Sunset River Marketplace, Calabash, NC EDUCATION [ top ] State University of New York Art School at New Paltz, BS Art Ed. Workshops: Cristina Cordova, Sergei Isupov, Andrea Gill, Matthew Metz, Val Cushing. AFFILIATIONS [ top ] Southern Highland Craft Guild Artists’ Guild of Spartanburg Rutherford County Visual Artists Guild