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Allen K. Littlefield
Born on October 11, 1940, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the artist spent his childhood years in areas of the United States as divergent as New York City, Pennsylvania, Florida and Washington State. Littlefield later returned to Wilkes-Barre where he graduated in 1967 from Wilkes College with a B.A. in Art Education.
After four years of teaching art on both the elementary and high school levels in the Kingston City School system of Kingston, N.Y., Littlefield moved to New Paltz. There he pursued graduate studies under ceramic instructors Kenneth Green and Robert Sedestrom at the State University of New York. He was employed as a graduate ceramics teaching assistant until 1973, when he received a Master of Fine Arts degree
As a general statement about his sculpture, Allen Littlefield explains that his current work, both vessels and sculpture, is to be viewed as “future artifacts”, objects that foreshadow what may be found in museums 3,000 years from now. The sculpture and fragments might reveal some of our alleged martyrs and saints; the vessels are based on ritual and liturgical reliquaries and sacred containers.
All great civilizations are known by their gods and human achievements. Our current reliance on hard/soft technology, the “new gods”, will in time crumble and be found to have “feet of clay”.
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