Donna Conklin King is a Sculptor living and working in Essex County, New Jersey. Her Public Sculpture and Mosaic work can be found at The Wildflower Sculpture Park in The South Mountain Reservation, and the Turtleback Zoo in Essex County, New Jersey. She is the recipient of a Fellowship in Sculpture from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a Creative Capital Professional Development Program recipient and a Vermont Studio Center Residency. Donna has exhibited her work throughout New Jersey and New York, with solo shows at the Monmouth Museum, Index Art Center in Newark, Johnson and Johnson in New Brunswick and the Educational Testing Center in Princeton. Her work is in multiple private and public collections including the Artist Book Collection at the Museum of Modern Art, the Newark Public Library Special Collections and Skidmore College Art Collection. Donna has a Bachelor of Science in Studio Art from Skidmore College and held a foundry apprenticeship at the Johnson Atelier in Trenton NJ before receiving a Master of Fine Art in Sculpture from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of Art.

“The manufacturing of plastic water bottles requires excessive waste water during production and pollutes the environment and waterways when discarded, yet we continue to use them daily, often ignoring our free water supplies. We remain in denial about the legacy we are creating. I use white Portland cement because it resembles bleached bones and fossils, alluding to history and archaeology. Cast in concrete from manipulated and reconstructed soda, juice and water bottles, Anenemy is a monument to our increasingly polluted waters. This is Atlantis, the legacy we are leaving behind, the archaeological consequences of our society if left unchecked.”