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Queen City Clay places a strong emphasis on education, recognizing the powerful impact of mentorship within the ceramics community. This show features the work of over 20 ceramic artists throughout the country focusing on the relationship between mentors & their mentees.
INTERRELATIONSHIP: PEERS, MENTORS & FRIENDS
Exhibition Posted Online: Monday, May 6, 2024 at 10 am MT
Artist Reception with guest curator Chotsani Elaine Dean on Friday, May 17, from 5-7pm MT
Chotsani Elaine Dean. Chotsani has guest curated this May exhibition with artists who have been important to both her and the field of ceramics.
Participating artists include Kathryn Baczeski, Mary Barringer, Monica Bock, Chotani Elaine Dean, Jill Foote-Hutton, Ron Fondaw, Cindy Leung, Sana Musasama, Kimberlee Roth, Bobby Scroggins, Janathel Shaw, Lisa Stinson, Lydia Thompson, Matthew Towers, and Paul Andrew Wandless.
Printing on Clay & Paper Workshop
At Central College in Pella, Iowa, I’ll be demonstrating to students how to print on clay and paper with screens and relief blocks. I’ll also demonstrate how to put images into the screens and how to carve the relief blocks.
Solo Exhibition
This solo Exhibition of my work has 17 clay prints, 3 clay heads and 2 stone sculptures on display in Mills Gallery at Central College, Pella Iowa.
The clay prints are visual narratives as mythologized philosophy, symbology and stories. The characters and scenes work independently, but also inform each other by giving additional context to discover the world where they all exist.
My sculptural works bring my musings, allegories or philosophical ideas into the real world as three-dimensional forms to physically interact with the viewer. Moving around a sculpture to investigate its surface and form creates a unique mode of engagement. The viewer and the sculpture have an active space between them that needs to be negotiated, navigated and shared.
Inspired: Victor Spinski
Victor Spinski was my Professor, mentor and dear friend. This exhibition includes works of some of his former students and I’m thrilled to have one of my pieces in the exhibition.