In the days leading up to Eugene’s annual Jell-O Art Show on March 25, the Queen of Jell-O Art can be found in the kitchen, mixing up concentrated concoctions of gelatin that she then sculpts into colorful, glass-like abstract art. For the queen of this unusual art form, jiggly isn’t better. These gelatin pieces look more like the work of Dale Chihuly than Betty Crocker.
Diane McWhorter was crowned the Queen of Jell-O Art during the 2012 Jell-O Art Show by her fellow members of the Radar Angels. By that point, she’d already spent more than two decades creating gelatin art.
“Through the process of doing it over these 30-some years, I discovered myself as an artist,” she said.
Jell-O, she realized, “was my true art form.”
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