Bill Stewart (1941-2020)

Bill Stewart created Red House for an exhibition designed for the visually impaired called Sensational: Art Through Feeling, Senses and Perceptions. Although monochromatic for sighted visitors, the clay house structure, incised patterns, waxed roof, and wooden snake had different textures to be detected through the sense of touch. The ceramic surfaces felt cooler too. The (then-named) Burchfield Center presented Sensational in the college’s more accessible, ground floor Upton Hall Gallery in 1982 because at the time there were no elevators to the museum’s home on the third floor of Rockwell Hall.