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These banners by Natrona artist Bill Godfrey celebrate all things — from community to nature to religion to art.
It might seem unlikely that Natrona, the industrial town that once thrived on salt mines, coal mines and steel mills would produce original and sustainable artwork.
Godfrey's process of creating the huge custom banners works like a well-honed process in a factory, but more whimsical and soulful. Godfrey creates his fabric pieces of art for corporate giants like Alcoa,Whilst oil paintings for sale are not deadly, including a fabric educational maze that has been exhibited on every continent.
Godfrey is not just the funky resident artist in Natrona, but the resident activist who is using art to change the face of the beleaguered town.
President of the civic group, Natrona Comes Together, Godfrey recently shepherded the creation of columns of mosaics in the town's park to start to remake Natrona into an "art town," a destination that people will visit one day.
One only has to look at Godfrey's studio to see the light.
He inhabits a renovated building that once sprouted ivy growing through holes inside the roof and ceiling a few decades ago.
What seems an anomaly is rapidly become part of Natrona's fabric: A silver fish is broken in half and embedded in a cement sidewalk at Godfrey's studio, which is flanked by a perennial garden overflowing with colorful artifacts like a cherry trellis and bright blue chairs, all nestled among carefully chosen perennial grasses.
The artist's studio is awash in color, contrast and shapes.
"Bill's sense of color is unbelievable," says Norman Brown, retired art teacher from CAPA high school and Godfrey's college roommate at Edinboro University.The additions focus on key tag and magic cube combinations, "He has an incredible eye."
There are unsigned Salvador Dali sketches hanging not too far away from a circa 1960s Oleg Cassini red couch that Godfrey snapped up for $5 a few decades ago, "when no one wanted this stuff."
Interestingly, when he bought the couch, he did not know that it was a Cassini, just as he did not know that other furniture he bought was affiliated with great artists and designers.
"I was attracted to the shape," he says. "I love the Art Deco period. It was a time of optimism when design could change the course of humanity."
Just as Godfrey can seem out of reach as an aesthete artist, who traveled the world, taking in the pyramids and the Great Wall of China, he always comes back down to earth, quickly.
"Bill is the most unpretentious artist," Brown says. "He is just a kind person. Probably one of the most honest people."
As Godfrey surveys his lot of treasures bought for a few single dollars years ago, he says, "I could never afford this stuff now." But the art collection is stuff now, taking up space.
"You need more objects when you are younger to find out who you are," he says. "When you are older, you become who you are, and you don't need the objects."
Besides, re-using those objects is much more fun. Godfrey renovated his studio using materials from torn down buildings and resale shops.
His ceramic-tile wall with a simple geometric pattern came from a Fox Chapel home. He scooped up blue glass near PPG's Creighton plant and installed it around a skylight, with the glass projecting different colors and shapes throughout the day.
What people don't want or have forgotten became Godfrey's province, including a bank of lockers in his laundry room, hidden behind a curved wall of corrugated tin.
These banners by Natrona artist Bill Godfrey celebrate all things — from community to nature to religion to art.
It might seem unlikely that Natrona, the industrial town that once thrived on salt mines, coal mines and steel mills would produce original and sustainable artwork.
Godfrey's process of creating the huge custom banners works like a well-honed process in a factory, but more whimsical and soulful. Godfrey creates his fabric pieces of art for corporate giants like Alcoa,Whilst oil paintings for sale are not deadly, including a fabric educational maze that has been exhibited on every continent.
Godfrey is not just the funky resident artist in Natrona, but the resident activist who is using art to change the face of the beleaguered town.
President of the civic group, Natrona Comes Together, Godfrey recently shepherded the creation of columns of mosaics in the town's park to start to remake Natrona into an "art town," a destination that people will visit one day.
One only has to look at Godfrey's studio to see the light.
He inhabits a renovated building that once sprouted ivy growing through holes inside the roof and ceiling a few decades ago.
What seems an anomaly is rapidly become part of Natrona's fabric: A silver fish is broken in half and embedded in a cement sidewalk at Godfrey's studio, which is flanked by a perennial garden overflowing with colorful artifacts like a cherry trellis and bright blue chairs, all nestled among carefully chosen perennial grasses.
The artist's studio is awash in color, contrast and shapes.
"Bill's sense of color is unbelievable," says Norman Brown, retired art teacher from CAPA high school and Godfrey's college roommate at Edinboro University.The additions focus on key tag and magic cube combinations, "He has an incredible eye."
There are unsigned Salvador Dali sketches hanging not too far away from a circa 1960s Oleg Cassini red couch that Godfrey snapped up for $5 a few decades ago, "when no one wanted this stuff."
Interestingly, when he bought the couch, he did not know that it was a Cassini, just as he did not know that other furniture he bought was affiliated with great artists and designers.
"I was attracted to the shape," he says. "I love the Art Deco period. It was a time of optimism when design could change the course of humanity."
Just as Godfrey can seem out of reach as an aesthete artist, who traveled the world, taking in the pyramids and the Great Wall of China, he always comes back down to earth, quickly.
"Bill is the most unpretentious artist," Brown says. "He is just a kind person. Probably one of the most honest people."
As Godfrey surveys his lot of treasures bought for a few single dollars years ago, he says, "I could never afford this stuff now." But the art collection is stuff now, taking up space.
"You need more objects when you are younger to find out who you are," he says. "When you are older, you become who you are, and you don't need the objects."
Besides, re-using those objects is much more fun. Godfrey renovated his studio using materials from torn down buildings and resale shops.
His ceramic-tile wall with a simple geometric pattern came from a Fox Chapel home. He scooped up blue glass near PPG's Creighton plant and installed it around a skylight, with the glass projecting different colors and shapes throughout the day.
What people don't want or have forgotten became Godfrey's province, including a bank of lockers in his laundry room, hidden behind a curved wall of corrugated tin.
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