Steampunk'd

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(l to r) Martha Ponting, "Bookmobile," Found Object Assemblage

18" x 13" x 8", Wilma Millette, "Born to be Wild," 2018, 11" x 16" x 2" and Pat Acton, "Brother, Brother," 2021, 24" x 22" x 10.5"

Steampunk’d features a curated collection of island artists. Martha Ponting, Pat Acton, Wilma Millette, Jeff Hartbower and Daniel Needham are up-cycling the past to create a future that never existed. Steampunk's origins lie in a nostalgic form of science fiction that takes Victorian era aesthetics and imagines a future reliant on steam-power rather than electricity.

All those Victorian elements are fertile ground for imagination, creative artistry, and cosplay complete with gears, goggles, vests, corsets and lots of pipes and fittings for utilizing all that steam. Steampunk’d includes a wide array of sculpture, assemblage and collage, all artistic methods which elegantly lend themselves to inventive steampunk creation.

Steampunk’d runs at Artful : The Gallery thru February 18th.

Gallery hours Weds-Sat 12-5 pm