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Artists
Represented
Michael & Christine Adcock
Lois Anderson
Jjenna Hupp Andrews
Sarah Ashe
Barbara Attwell
Karen Aumann
Genevieve Barnhart
Joy Kroeger Beckner
Shannon Bellum
Peter Bevan
Natalie Blake
Gretchen Born
Bill Bowers
Laura Bruzzese
Lanie Cecula
Jessica Cheatham
Andy Chulyk
Jim Connell
Bronwynne Cornish
Alison Counsell
Kelly Cozart
Suzanne Crane
Michael Creed
Kim Cutler
Dwight Davidson
Jaclyn Davidson
Iestyn Davies
Darlene Davis
Jimmy Descant
Scott DeWaard
Mary Donovan
Colin Duncan
J. Thomas Dunne
Jason Esquijarosa
Lorna M. Fraser
James Garnett
J. Gates
Marilyn Gee-Cartwright
Dennis M. George
Jennifer Gilbert
Luisella Giobbi
Juditha Graham
Carol Green
Doug Haslam
Lynn Hayes
Lana Heckendorn
Al Honig
John Hull
Kiyoshi Ike
Mary Jursinovic
Tamar Kern
Sallie Ketcham
Mike Knox
Nicholas Kripal
Max Leiber
Donna L. Lish
Patrick Marold
Chris Martin
Cathryn McCormick
Paul McCoy
Shawn McDonald
Gail McDowell
Tricia McGuigan
Ranna McNeil
Chris Moench
Jeffrey Mongrain
Darin Montgomery
William Morris
Judith Motzkin
Kate Shakeshaft-Murray
Monica Namyar
Randy O'Brien
Komelia Honeja Okim
Brian O’Neil
Michael Orgel
Seth Payne
Craig Petey
Christopher M. Rizzo
Douglas K. Rogers
Matthew Rope
Tim Rowan
Bradley Royce
Susanna Stachura Sakolsky
Jim Bob Salazar
Diana Mendieta Sanchez
Lucy Scanlon
Volker Schoenfliess
Dutch Schulze
Barbara Sebastian
Schafermeyer-Kelly
Steve Sherman
Michiko Shimoda
Daniel Slack
Sophia Sorich
Chrysan Spreng
Suzanne Stephenson
Rick Strini
Jonathan Taylor
Jack Thompson
Leslie Thompson
Stuart Thompson
Jacqueline Trabuc
Joeleyn Trahan
Christine U'Ren
Fritzie Urquhart
Angela van der Burght
Jan-Willem van Zijst
Sunny van Zijst
Sumi von Dassow
Linda Walton
Carole M. Warner
George Westbrook
Emma Wilson
Carol Webb
Waltraud L. Weidhaas
Jinny Whitehead
Chris Wolff
Margaret Yaukey
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Funeria
promotes and sells original, finely handcrafted urns, vessels, and personal
memorial art made by artists, to those who seek art to honor a beautiful
life.
Our
goal is to lighten the burden placed on loved ones - and soften the
fear for ourselves - when what remains of the physical self is no more
than ashes and dust. One artist's vision at the close of the 20th century
has now opened an alliance between two groups: artists whose creativity
compels them to express beauty, and those who seek art as a means to
honor a beautiful life.
The
inevitability of death, and our comfort with it, is experienced differently
- often dramatically so - among the world's cultures. In common among
us, however, is our sorrow for the loss of a loved one's vitality, wisdom,
humor, and idiosyncrasies. We may have questions, and the answers are
gone.
What
we can have, however, in remembrance of a singular life, is easily available
when we allay fear and sadness with art and beauty. Art is communicative
and can help to heal a troubled heart. The art we choose in honor
of another, or for ourselves, stands in for us when we're no longer
here.
Overall,
the goal of Funeria is to:
- Provide
consumers and collectors with fine art/fine craft options in funerary
urns and vessels - original artwork that is beautiful in itself, apart
from its stated purpose.
- Advance
the concept that art and beauty sanctify life and that in choosing
a functional work of art that more genuinely represents ourselves
or a loved one, we may assuage sorrow and our own fears
of death.
- Provide
a new, selective venue through which creative and talented artists
can exhibit and sell their work.
- Create
a genuinely pleasant and interesting alternative and non-funereal
environment for selecting a funerary urn or vessel.
- Offer
a broader range of prices to consumers that reflects tasteful, artful
choices at all price levels.
Funeria
is an outgrowth of Tannery Creek Press - a small publishing company
founded in 1992 whose primary focus has been to help individuals find
the words and means to honor their own lives, or the lives of those
they love. Titles in print include My Life - Truths, Tales, Memories,
and Dreams - a way to write your life story, and From Here to
There & Back Again - a travel writer's tool kit. Tannery Creek
Press is particularly noted for incorporating a uniquely inviting style
and fine handcraftwork in all design details.
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Let
your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
-Walt
Whitman
Ashes
to Art debuted at the Fort Mason Center Firehouse in San Francisco
on November 28, 2001
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