For 40 years, my sculpture has combined human, animal and natural imagery to create a kind of emotional and poetic power. Often there's suggestion of a vital interconnection between the human and non human realms; the imagery arises from associations, concerns and obsessions that are at once intimate and universal. The work frequently references mythology and archetypes in addressing our vulnerability amid changing personal, environmental, and political realities. By focusing on older, more mysterious ways of seeing the world, edges of consciousness and deeper levels of awareness suggest themselves.— Adrian Arleo Adrian Arleo has spent the last three decades living and working as a full-time sculptor in Lolo, Montana, with her family and a menagerie of animals. She was born in NY and spent many years on both coasts before making Montana home. Adrian studied Art and Anthropology at Pitzer College and received her MFA in ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design. She has been an artist-in-residence at Oregon College of Art and Craft, at Sitka Center For Art and Ecology, and at the Jordan Schnitzer Printmaking Residency (also at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology). Adrian’s work is exhibited nationally and internationally, and appears in numerous public, private and museum collections. She received awards from the Virginia A. Groot Foundation in 1991 and 1992, and in 1995 was awarded a Montana Arts Council Individual Fellowship. Her work has been widely published in books, magazines, and on the internet. Adrian is a frequent workshop instructor across the US and abroad, and enjoys teaching courses on figurative ceramic sculpture.