Salt Water Skin Boats, aka The Coracle Project

Erica Grimm, parishioner and one of the creators of the Salt Water Skin Boats hung in the Gathering Place will give a presentation of this much larger project that had toured multiple cities.  

From the artist Erica Grimm and Tracie Stewart:

Strongly rooted in a sense of West Coast Salish Sea material culture, these coracle-like shapes suggest
journey, embodiment and ocean metaphors. The surfaces of the works evoke water, flesh and
waterways. The vascular hulls, remind of rivers, the surface cracks in ice, rivulets of light, and glacial ice.
Between the historical significance of the coracle shape and the symbolism of the materials used, the
works foreground the myriad connections between human health and the health of the natural
environment.