On view: September 15 – October 11, 2026
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Kate Fisher, Jil Franke, Mike Jabbur, Olivia Tani, Minsoo Yuh
Early Autumn Featured Artists: Kate Fisher, Jil Franke, Mike Jabbur, Olivia Tani, Minsoo Yuh
About the Artists
Kate Fisher
St. Louis Park, Minnesota
Kate Fisher is a born and raised Midwesterner, artist, educator, mother, and story collector who is interested in how handmade objects create connections between people. Fisher holds BAs in studio art and art history from St. Olaf College (Northfield, MN) and earned her MFA in ceramics from the University of North Texas (Denton). She served as the Studio Art Technician at St. Olaf College where she taught intermittently as a Visiting Assistant Professor and founded the Ron Gallas Cup Library: an educational cup-lending program for the St. Olaf community. She currently cultivates community as an employee of the Loppet Foundation (Minneapolis, MN): a non-profit dedicated to connecting people to the outdoors through experiences that grow community. Her work has been exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally. She has traveled to China, Europe, and South America to study, complete residencies, build kilns, and assist with artist workshops. When Fisher is not in the studio, she can be found biking, running, skiing, or enjoying the roads and trails. Her home and studio are located in St. Louis Park, MN where she lives with her partner, children, and a Boston terrier named Gatsby.
Jil Franke
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Jil Franke was introduced to ceramics when teaching art in Sydney, Australia. She handbuilds each geometrically designed functional piece of work using a darting technique on slabs. Surface decoration is created using wax resist and slips and finally they are fired in a wood kiln with a light salting. Her work has been exhibited both internationally and nationally, including Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei and Jingdezhen International Ceramic Art Center, China. Private collections with her work include The American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, California and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Mike Jabbur
Williamsburg, Virginia
Jabbur is inspired by historical ceramic objects for serving food and drink, contemporary industrial design, the dignity of craft, the act of teaching, the human experience of shared meals, and the concept of morning coffee. His ceramic work is crafted with use in mind and the home as setting. Dodging direct historical and contemporary references, Jabbur creates pots to reflect a timelessness and balance between tension and resolve. His pots are meant to enhance mundane rituals and breathe life affirming meaning into routine activities.
Olivia Tani
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Olivia Tani earned her BFA from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Her work is driven by formal exploration and interest in the process of slab-building. During this process, Tani translates between three-dimensional form and a two-dimensional “blueprint.” She blends precise building techniques with experimentation to derive her forms. Though she is a functional potter, Tani “indulge[s] in moments of excess that guide [her] formal stylization,” creating forms that serve both as functional utilitarian objects and sculptural forms. She is interested in the way that the viewer interacts with the piece and the “haptic quality of masses and volumes.” Tani is a recipient of a 2017 Fogelberg Studio Fellowship at Northern Clay Center.
Minsoo Yuh
Athens, Georgia
“I was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea. After earning a BFA and MFA in ceramics, I moved to the U.S. and have been making pots ever since. I am fascinated by spontaneous lines, forms, and space I find in nature and objects and the depth and character within them that show the passage of time. I am also inspired and influenced by traditional Korean ceramics, which embrace the beauty of simplicity, vitality, profoundness, and imperfections. This intrinsic beauty—which requires time, dedication to mastering techniques, and understanding the materials and spontaneity of the process of creation—is what I value and strive for in my work. Spontaneity and vitality, empowered by balance and harmony are important elements of my work process. My work is a reflection of my self-examination and growth through contemplations on human nature, life, and myself through the natural characteristics of clay and aspects of nature.”