Sculpting with Narratives
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ike most artists, Elizabeth Denneau began creating at a very young age. “I was alone a lot as a kid, and so I tended to create a lot of worlds around me to keep me company. We also didn’t have a lot so that artistic creativity lended itself to resourcefulness,” she says. She went on to earn an associate degree in fashion design and developed her own label, CandyStrike. “I went to school solely to learn how to sew and make patterns,” she admits. “I didn’t care too much about the degree,
so I never did a four-year stint in Fashion Ed.” Elizabeth recalls that after she was tired of running a small business, she went back to school for Art and Visual Culture Education at the University School of Art. “I had been making and selling artwork my whole life, but I have to say, going to art school really helped motivate me to make more complex art.” Elizabeth’s background in fashion proved to be a foundation for sculpting. “I consider what I did with fashion design to be a form of sculpting or at least 3D work, and
ArtDiction | 50| July/August 2020
