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Spencer Brewer

Spencer Brewer creates ‘High Whimsey’ - fantastical pieces of sculptures out of vintage or unusual objects inspiring viewers with a sense of delight, surprise, and many times awe. The studio, the “Barn of Curiosities, Oddities, and Light”, is a  onderland of eccentric odds and obscure ephemera where the magic happens. “For most of my life, my passion has been the piano - creating, recording, and producing music as well as working on over 20,000 pianos, crank phonographs, players, and pump organs. Restoring and working on thousands of pianos made over the centuries has been an inspiring lense into how well-crafted and executed mechanisms were made, all for the enjoyment of the players & listeners.”

 

Vintage parts, machines, drawings, or industrial era ephemera are inspirations for his sculptures. “I don’t make things look old; they are old.” Analog relics from the early 19th century through the 1920s were envisioned, graphically drawn, and physically manufactured to last lifetimes out of the best materials available from those eras. From these historical materials, Spencer creates sculptures in a way that begs the viewer to wonder – ‘was this real?’ Whimsy, wonder, curiosity, and humor are essential in the work while staying true to the original part’s

intended design. Spencer’s hope is the sculptures inspire others to think out outside the box and find their own muse.

Spencer Brewer, Steppin Out

Spencer Brewer, Steppin Out

 Mixed Media,  5.5’ x 2’ x 1.5’

 

Available

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$925.00

Spencer Brewer, Xeno Canadensis Rex

Spencer Brewer, Xeno Canadensis Rex

Sculpture 1.5’ x 2’ x 11”

 

Available

1

$750.00

Spencer Brewer,  Freeing the Muse

Spencer Brewer,  Freeing the Muse

Assemblage 1.2’ x 2’ x 1’

 

Available

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$575.00

71 E. Commercial St.

PO Box 503

Willits, CA 95490

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Friday - Sunday

11am - 5pm

inquiries: manager@willitscenterforthearts.org

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Thank you to our Members and Named Supporters:

$15,000 +

Chris Forest

Upstate California Creative Corps

 

$10,000 +

Mary Guibert

 

$5,000 +

The Community Foundation

Draw ‘Til You Drop /Elizabeth Raybee

Jane Camp

Willits Chamber of Commerce

 

$2,500 +

Emma Good Scholarship Fund

Howard Foundation

Bruce and Cassandra Anditch

The Bill Graham Foundation

Steven and Lana Eberhard

Michelle Havenhill and Mark Henriques

Harley Hegefer

Jim Hinkle

Maggie Graham

 

 $1,000 +

The Martin Family of Ohio

The Rotary Club of Willits

Spencer Brewer and Friends 

VA58 Neighborhood Partnership Foundation

 

$500 +

James and Jeanne King

Norma Hanson

Johnson Quality Tree Care

Northern Aggregates

Al and Beth Rosen

The Savings Bank of Mendocino County

Carolyn Stewart

Michael and Dayle Deer

Seven Zero Seven Leef Labs

C. Stewart

$200 +

Barra Vineyards

Electric Floral Tattoos

Kim Bancroft

Esbeth Bjornstrom

Larry and Marisela Desmond

Frey Vineyards

John and Doreen Glyer

Mendo Mill

Pennyroyal and Navarro Vineyards Susana Wilson

Doreen Glyer

Glenn Makihara

Marjorie Barbour

Beth Rosen

Ware/Page Family

Sharon Collins

Deviyana Livneh

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