C L A Y +

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Exhibition Title: Clay+

Juried Artists:
Audrey An, Harrison Boden, Austin Bradshaw, Meg Howton, Dasha Kalisz, Patrick Kingshill, Raoul Pacheco, Cooper Siegel, Ethan Snow, Kourtney Stone, Kyle Triplett, ChengOu Yu


Dates: 08/2021- 09/2021


Venue: Clay Center of New Orleans
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In September 2020, I developed and proposed a national juried exhibition titled Clay+ for the Clay Center of New Orleans located in the Gert Town neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana. The Clay Center is an emergent arts organization hosting approximately ten national juried and invitational exhibitions each year. Regionally, the center is positioned to be an important proponent for visual culture and is an increasingly recognized national venue for ceramic-based art.
 
The overarching goal of the exhibition is to support the growing movement of interdisciplinary artists who identify primarily as ceramicists and participate within a national and international ceramics community. The field’s continual expansion warrants investigation into multiple materials, in conjunction with clay, that emphasize the conceptual underpinnings of ceramic forms and processes.
 
Exhibition Statement:
Clay is an ancient artistic medium. For time immemorial, meanings and processes associated with ceramic objects have reflected the cultures which produced them. This vast history and subsequent tie to tradition simultaneously inspires and confounds many artists and critics in the field. For decades, a subset of ceramicists have challenged long-established ceramic paradigms and formed the groundwork for current and burgeoning innovation. Now accepted widely, ceramicists’ use of multiple materials in conjunction with clay is a means to enhance and support the content of the clay material within an artwork. Clay+ seeks to highlight ceramic artists who nurture a kinship of materials in their practices to elevate and reflect the potency present in contemporary ceramics.