Not a Hollow Vessel: Full of Herself
View photos and learn about the work, Full of Itself, created by internationally renowned wood sculptor and artist Betty J. Scarpino.
Turned and Textured Not-Hollow Vessel
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Not a Hollow Vessel: Full of Herself

  • Not a Hollow Vessel: Full of Herself by Betty Scarpino
  • A photo of Betty Scarpino's work, Not a Hollow Vessel: Full of Herself, in a display case.

Date

2019

 

Materials

spalted maple, walnut, dye

 

Size

10″ x 7″ x 4.5″

 

Price

$900

 

Photo

Wilbur Montgomery

 

Awards and Exhibitions

Indiana State Fair, Blue Ribbon

Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian, “State Fair” Exhibit, 2025-2026

 

Statement

Scarpino is nationally recognized for her skillful and metaphorical sculptures in wood. Here, she turned a piece of spalted maple into a simple but subversive form. The title, Not a Hollow Vessel, is a play on a much more common form, a hollow vessel. Such “empty vessels” draw uneasy comparison to the female body and the fact that woodturning is still largely dominated by men. Scarpino turns this metaphor around, centering her own feminist perspective.