WOLF FUR BUTTONS

We are a group of six female visual artists. We call ourselves the Wolf Fur Buttons, inspired by the poet William Stafford’s six-year old daughter’s imagining of what is possible: 

We’d have a old car, the kind that gets flat tires, but inside would be wolfskin on the seats and warm fur on the steering wheel, and wolf fur on all the buttons. And we’d live in a ranch house made out of logs with a loft where you sleep, and you’d walk a little ways and there’d be the farm with the horses. We’d drive to town, and we’d have flat tires, and be sort of old.   

We respond to her unselfconscious thrill with her own imagination and the revelation of saying it aloud. She is transforming the mundane into something fantastic. We find that as a collective, our creative horizons unfold in surprising and meaningful ways; individual ideas are expanded through our proximity to one another via spoken and unspoken observation. 

Each member of this group brings a different perspective and approach to ideas and materials. We share insights with each other through painting, sculpture, printmaking, and mixed media.