Professional Recognition for Arts Contributions:
Kerry received the Leadership in the Arts Award, with co-recipient Mark Whitehurst, from the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission, 2010.
The Citizen of the Year Award was presented by the Santa Barbara Downtown Organization to CASA Magazine (where she is editor and co-owner) for being instrumental in creating and supporting the 1st Thursday monthly arts night program, 2007.
The Business and Art Award, which is presented by the City of Santa Barbara Visual Art in Public Places went to CASA Magazine in 2005.
Kerry Methner
When Kerry Methner mentioned to a friend and co-worker back in 1997 that she had always wanted to carve stone, that friend brought her two hand sized pieces of alabaster the very next day. Within four days she completed her first piece and just that quickly her love for the touch of stone was born. After a move to Santa Barbara, a paradise for stone carvers and others, she began accumulating additional stone working skills.
Generally Methner brings abstract ideas that she is considering into contact with the stone and her self in a kind of dialogue. With the practice of carving stone, and support from family, friends, teachers such as Rebecca Davis, and a fabulous group of local sculptors, Kerry finished a Ph.D. in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute with a focus on the relationship developed between sculptors and their media, through the lens of Martin Buber’s philosophy of dialogue, September 2007. It’s titled Extending Fingers Touching Soul: A Heuristic Study of Sculptors and the Liminal Nature of Being Touched by Touching.
While Methner continues to enjoy the feel of alabaster, her most recent work and upcoming projects are with marble and multi-media.
Methner is a member of the Santa Barbara Sculptors Guild and served as their president from January 2005 through June 2009. www.sbsculptors.org
For more information on Kerry Methner visit: www.TheTouchofStone.com
All images and text Copyright © 2011 by Kerry Methner
‘Luscious Moments: Infinity Now,
Marble, By Kerry Methner