Home Sweet Home
From the Methow Valley News - Marcy Stamper

Co-curator Theresa Miller has been working with a diverse and fanciful collection to bring together the new home and garden exhibit at Confluence. “I looked for a harmony, a rhythm, a message,” she said. “I assembled it so it tells you what I was thinking – that’s where the theater comes in,” she said, as she arranged furniture that spanned the spectrum – lusciously carved walnut and bent-wood chairs combined with rickety folding chairs splashed haphazardly with paint. The chairs are taking their place next to metal garden sculptures, porcelain garden totems and an actual chicken coop that will house live birds at the opening.

The show includes what Miller and co-curator Caryl Campbell are calling “down-home comfort rather than high-end design,” with everything from lush landscape paintings and intimate watercolors, to lamps made from leather and other natural materials by Cloudbird to a light fixture crafted from a old Chevy hood by Laura Karcher. Photographs of birds and plants, ceramic urns and sculptures and a rusted antique stove fill out the exhibit.