This exhibition featured beautifully crafted vessels that demonstrate the artist’s technical mastery well beyond the simple hobby or pastime. Each piece has a brilliantly decorated, high-finish surface achieved through a variety of sophisticated techniques and materials. In fact, these handsome, turned wood urns borrow much from their ancient Greek predecessors.
Mr. Sinner’s interest in woodworking led to a degree in Industrial Education at Iowa State University. Inspired by Dale Nish’s “Creative Woodworking” in 1975, he attempted woodturning and acquired a passion for the craft. He concentrates on vase forms – difficult because of their deep, hollow interiors. He lives in Bettendorf, Iowa with his wife.

Image: Steve Sinner, Class of ’60 – Faded Memories, March 2002, walnut, ink, and silver leaf, 23 ¼x8 1/8×8 1/8 in., collection of Dubuque Museum of Art, 04.01.003