About
Kerin Rose is an artist and educator based in Burlington, Vermont, whose work explores the intimate relationship between material, memory, and the natural world, shaped in part by her experience as a small-d deaf artist.
Originally trained as a metalsmith and jewelry artisan, her practice evolved in response to the environmental impact of the field. Rather than abandon the medium, she reimagined it, becoming an early adopter of recycled precious metal casting and carving her forms from beeswax produced by the hives she keeps with her sister. These processes embed cycles of care, stewardship, and interdependence directly into the work, grounding each piece in both origin and intention.
Her award-winning work has been exhibited widely and featured in galleries, publications, television and film, carrying a quiet but palpable connection between hand, material, and place.
She has expanded into ceramic sculpture, embracing scale as a way to deepen connection and move beyond the intimacy of the body into shared space. This shift reflects a long-held desire to create work that invites a more immediate, physical, and collective experience.
Across mediums, her practice remains rooted in an essential question: how to create beauty without severing our relationship to the living world.
Statement
My work traces the shifting contours of what it means to be human. The fragile weight of memory, the pulse of longing, the quiet resilience that carries us forward. I linger in the spaces between what is spoken and what is felt, where silence holds its own vocabulary and fleeting moments of connection reveal their unexpected light. Each piece I make is an offering, a vessel for what cannot always be named.
Clay, with its plasticity and earth-bound softness, meets the strength of metal..unyielding, resolute….yet together they form a dialogue. The contrasts become anchors, focal points, reminders of how vulnerability and strength are never truly separate.
This body of work is born from the textures of memory and the landscapes of emotion: joy and grief, confusion and clarity, trust and rupture, anger and forgiveness, love and its inevitable ache. I am here for all of it, refusing to turn away.
At its heart, my practice is a search for tenderness within the complexity of living….a way of holding space for imperfection, beauty, and mystery. It is an act of witnessing, of honoring both the shadows and the light, and of aknowleging that to be human is to dwell in both.
