Dollmaker hopes her art can bring happiness to others
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Denise Roberson makes dolls, representations of strength and beauty outfitted in unique fabric and embellished with things like shells, beads, wire and ribbons.
"A lot of my dolls are made to recognize the strength and beauty of women," she said. "Through my work, I amtrying to recognize my own beauty and strength, and for other women to see their strength and not get mislead, lost, used and abused. If we women could see ourselves as we are, for who we are, the world would be different."
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Artist Denise Roberson likes to think of her creations as soft sculptures of feminine characters. She is seen with some of her work at the Manic Moon Gallery, 1625 N.
"A lot of my dolls are made to recognize the strength and beauty of women," Pandora Outlet she said. "Through my work, I amtrying to recognize my own beauty and strength, and for other women to see their strength and not get mislead, lost, used and abused. If we women could see ourselves as we are, for who we are, the world would be different."
People have made comments to Roberson about her work being spiritual, but that is not her intention. Some have even suggested voodoo.
"I don't like it when people ask me about voodoo Pandora Charms Outlet Store and my dolls. One woman said 'spiritual' meets voodoo," Roberson said, "It's not funny but I laugh it off, maybe it's a black thing on their part. I guess it is all a matter of what they've been exposed to and they don't know any better."
Roberson grew up in Oakland, Calif. She made her first "doll" in seventh grade. It was a knock off Barbie in an Elizabethan outfit. "We were studying Shakespeare," she said. "In a book, I saw the clothes they wore at that time and I dressed the doll for a project."
Around that time, Roberson's mother began teaching her how to sew. "We made clothes because we could not afford to buy them," Roberson said. "Creativity out of necessity."
Roberson sewed her own clothes for years, never considering her sewing skills an art form until her mother took her to Pandora Gift Idea a doll making workshop lead by a well known doll maker, Elinor Peace Bailey. After that, doll making became her passion, fueled even more by an episode of Oprah Winfrey's show.
"She was asking her audience, 'What is your mission?' and I declared that mine was to make beautiful things that make people happy."
Roberson, 58, moved to the Spokane area in early 2006. Her boyfriend, James Broussard, a truck driver, had driven through the area and stopped for a break. "When his feet touched the ground, he said he felt like he was home," Roberson explained, "He was born here and then adopted."
Broussard has searched for his birth parents, to no avail. All he knows pandora earrings mix and match is that his mother was white, his father was black, and a note pinned to him read: Baby boy Melby.
Roberson has lived through some tragedies, as many people do. "As a woman, as a black woman, I have been treated as 'less than,' but through my work, I am trying to find myself again and help others do the same."