Connie Cramer Creek

Bio

Connie Cramer Creek attended University of Kansas and K-State University earning her Bachelors in Art Education. She immediately began teaching and exhibiting her artwork nationally. In 1989, Connie began teaching art at Pembroke Hill School where she was Chair of the Visual Art Department. She earned her Master of Art: Studio Painting from the University of Missouri in Kansas City. A dedicated educator, Connie’s student artists have won hundreds of awards. In 2021 Connie became an adjunct professor of Drawing at Metropolitan Community College of Kansas City.

Connie created and exhibited sculpture, ceramics, and painting in various galleries from Key West, FL, to Portland, OR, earning numerous honors, including Exceptional Educator by the University of Iowa’s College of Education.

Artist Statement

In art, the visual description of space drawn on a flat surface conforms to a set of standards based on a fixed viewpoint, while the depiction of an object in three- dimensions relies on the observation and manipulation of space from multiple points of view. I am interested in what can happen when these two methods of depiction bump into and overlap one another.

This work investigates the tactile as well as the visual: a place where object, sculpture, and drawing overlap. My imagery is informed by memory and by a joyful appreciation of the activity of play we witness in children. A personal collection of tin wind-up toys offers much inspiration towards my goal of awakening in the viewer a sense of whimsy.

Working with clay allows me to echo the tactile satisfaction found in play, when making these objects. Moreover, ceramic objects afford the artist a variety of color and surface manipulation to heighten the viewers’ experience and tease their imaginations.

Exhibitions