Art Work | Faculty Listing M.F.A. - Art/Textile Design, University of Kansas B.A. - Anthropology, University of California Corky Stuckenbruck teaches design fundamentals and fibers courses and has been a member of the faculty since 1975. My work deals with the impermanent quality of life. In the Cradle to Grave series I use cradle/boat/coffin forms to symbolize various stages and passages that humans pass through during the journey from birth to death. The materials used are, also, of a rather impermanent nature. These reliquary-sized vessels are formed with gathered and shaped wood and covered with "gut" which is sausage casing that shrinks as it dries, often warping and distorting the forms. I find that this interaction between content, form and material is an excellent process for symbolizing the temporary and cyclic stages of life.   Corky Stuckenbruck