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SUMMARY:Early Autumn Featured Artists: Mike Jabbur\, Kate Fisher\, Olivia Tani\, Minsoo Yuh\, Jil Franke
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URL:https://northernclaycenter.org/calendar/early-autumn-featured-artists-mike-jabbur-kate-fisher-olivia-tani-minsoo-yuh-jil-franke/
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SUMMARY:To Be Human Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:On view September 19 – November 1\, 2026Main Gallery \n\n\n\nFree public opening reception Friday\, October 2 \, 6 – 8 pm \n\n\n\nVirtual 3D Tour on view September 24 \n\n\n\n\nLearn more about the exhibition\n\n\n\n\nCristina Córdova\, “Orilla”Michelle Gregor\, “Calliopi”Ashlyn Pope\, “A Nation When Black Excellence Won’t Be Denied.”Kensuke Yamada\, “Daruma”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClay remembers every touch. It holds the imprint of fingers\, the weight of emotion\, and the passage of time. To Be Human is a provocative exploration of the human condition through the poignant work of four artists whose work centers the human figure as both subject and symbol. Each of these makers celebrates clay’s ability to hold complexity\, contradiction\, tenderness and truth while they bring their own lived experience to the work. To Be Human is not just about what a body looks like\, but what it carries. The exhibition aims to be a meditation on empathy and our ability to see ourselves in others– to be curious about the stories we do not yet know. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParticipating artists include: Cristina Córdova\, Michelle Gregor\, Ashlyn Pope\, and Kensuke Yamada. \n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\n\n\n\nCristina Córdova is a contemporary artist and sculpting instructor from Puerto Rico. She earned her BA from the University of Puerto Rico and her MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico; and the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico\, among others. Her work has been widely featured in major ceramics and arts publications\, including the cover of Ceramics Monthly\, and was highlighted in the PBS series Craft in America in the episode “Identity.” Córdova is the recipient of a United States Artists Fellowship and the 2024 Maxwell-Hanrahan Craft Award. In 2026\, she was inducted into the American Craft Council College of Fellows. Cristina has taught and demonstrated internationally. Her residencies\, workshops\, and lectures have included Harvard University; the Australian National University in Canberra; Ceramistas de Reñaca in Chile; Gaya Ceramic Arts Center in Bali; and Penland School of Craft (NC)\, among others. “The sea has long existed as a space of passage\, encounter\, and myth\, a vast and unstable territory where destinies unfold. In this body of work\, I return to that ancestral ground that shaped my island youth\, proposing the ocean as both origin and archive.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichelle Gregor received her BA in Studio Art from the University of California\, Santa Cruz (Chancellor’s Grant) in 1983 and her MFA from San Francisco State University in 1994 (Outstanding M.F.A. Candidate\, Art Department). Rooted in a tradition of Abstract Figuration\, Gregor is a multifaceted artist who works in clay\, bronze\, paint and drawing media\, handling each medium with a process-oriented and intuitive approach that results in painterly forms and images. A tenured Professor of Art at San Jose City College\, Gregor brings to her teaching the same sensibility that defines her studio practice. The human figure has become a central focus in Gregor’s practice\, serving as a consistent point of exploration across media. Her work often involves multiple firings in ceramic pieces and layered applications of color using water-based techniques that allow for natural movement and variation. This additive and subtractive method creates surfaces with a patina-like quality\, emphasizing depth and the passage of time. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAshlyn Pope is an Assistant Professor in 3-d foundations at Coastal Carolina University in Myrtle Beach\, South Carolina. She is also a ceramic and textile artist of Gullah descent. Pope earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Kennesaw State University in 2013. There\, she received her degree in Ceramics and Printmaking. She went on to complete her Master’s Degree in Ceramics at The Pennsylvania State University in 2019. Recently\, Pope completed a solo exhibition at the Myrtle Beach Art Museum named A History of Moving Forward II in which she had 6 gallery spaces.  Pope in the last few years\, has had her work published in the book Contemporary Black American Ceramic Artists and had an article written about her work in Ceramics Monthly Magazine. She was honored with having her work grace the cover of that particular issue. “Some of my forms hemorrhage colonialism through designs inspired by historical ceramic wares like delftware while some other forms have golden crowns to reclaim self-love.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKensuke Yamada draws on his Japanese heritage to explore identity\, folklore\, and the emotions found in moments in everyday life. “Through this mix of the familiar and the fantastical\, I aim to create a space for connection\, where distant worlds and shared stories come together.” He has participated in numerous artist residencies and visiting artist programs\, including The Archie Bray Foundation in Helena\, Montana\, and The Clay Studio in Philadelphia\, Pennsylvania. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally\, and it is included in various museum and institutional collections. He is currently an assistant professor at California State University\, Chico CA. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Curator:Kelly Connole combines the tactile nature of clay with visual interpretations of memories and emotions that address relationships within environments: natural and constructed\, human and animal. Her work has been exhibited at the NCECA Biennial at the Kentucky Art Museum and NCECA Invitational at the Bellevue Arts Museum\, as well as the Flaten Art Museum\, Contemporary Crafts Museum\, and numerous galleries and museums across the country. She has received a McKnight Residency Grant and Artist Fellowship\, a Jerome Project Grant\, a Minnesota State Arts Board Grant\, and the SeaCast Residency Fellowship. She is currently a Professor of Art and Art History and Associate Department Chair at Carleton College in Northfield\, MN. Connole received her MFA from San Francisco State University in1996 and her BFA from University of Montana in 1991.
URL:https://northernclaycenter.org/calendar/to-be-human-2/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:The Joy and Sorrow of Imagining Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:On view September 19 – November 1\, 2026Main Gallery \n\n\n\nFree public opening reception Friday\, October 2 \, 6 – 8 pm \n\n\n\nVirtual 3D Tour on view September 24 \n\n\n\n\nLearn more about the exhibition\n\n\n\n\nAdam Chau\, CherubAdam Chau\, Like Father Like Son\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdam Chau’s work has always looked at how technology aids\, challenges\, and enhances society. His research with Artificial Intelligence has allowed him to think like Geppetto and create his own child by using AI software to take childhood pictures of himself and his husband to create a fictional son\, Billie. With a series of porcelain objects that reference Billie\, this exhibit will investigate how sculpture can aid in the celebration or fantasy in having a family in a queer context and surrealist framework. From cultural identity to folklore (such as Pinocchio)\, Billie will have many sprawling ideas from each work to the next. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artists\n\n\n\nAdam Chau is an artist that works in Connecticut. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute’s Designed Objects program\, his research into digital manufacturing in ceramics has been published widely. Solo exhibitions have included The Clay Studio\, Northern Clay Center\, and Harvard Ceramics. In 2018\, Adam was awarded the NCECA Emerging Artist Fellowship and in 2019 he became a member of the International Academy of Ceramics. Adam is currently the Gallery Director and Curator at Hartford Art School and also the Director of Exhibitions for NCECA.
URL:https://northernclaycenter.org/calendar/the-joy-and-sorrow-of-imagining-2/
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Michelle Gregor
DESCRIPTION:Main Exhibition Gallery\, FREE \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for artist talk\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCalliopi\, 2022\, ceramic\, 33″x11″x7″Adriatic\, 2026\, porcelain\, 7″x5″x4″\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a free artist talk with To Be Human exhibition artist Michelle Gregor\, who will discuss her work in the exhibition and delve into how she uses the figurative motif along with decades of experience working with clay. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBiography:\n\n\n\nMichelle Gregor received her BA in Studio Art from the University of California\, Santa Cruz (Chancellor’s Grant) in 1983 and her MFA from San Francisco State University in 1994 (Outstanding M.F.A. Candidate\, Art Department). \n\n\n\nRooted in a tradition of Abstract Figuration\, Gregor is a multifaceted artist who works in clay\, bronze\, paint and drawing media\, handling each medium with a process-oriented and intuitive approach that results in painterly forms and images. She has an intuitive sense of color that unifies her productions in various media and endows all of her work with a painterly vigor reflecting her Bay Area roots and fascination with Abstract Expressionism. \n\n\n\nA tenured Professor of Art at San Jose City College\, Gregor brings to her teaching the same sensibility that defines her studio practice. \n\n\n\nThe human figure has become a central focus in Gregor’s practice\, serving as a consistent point of exploration across media. Her work often involves multiple firings in ceramic pieces and layered applications of color using water-based techniques that allow for natural movement and variation. This additive and subtractive method creates surfaces with a patina-like quality\, emphasizing depth and the passage of time. Her sculptures are noted for their nuanced surfaces and evolving forms. Gregor’s sculpture has been described as lyrical\, graceful\, and spiritual. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtist Statement\, To Be Human:\n\n\n\nThe figure remains my most reliable point of departure as an artist\, a source that\, after many years of practice\, still feels infinite. Art history offers an inexhaustible treasury of the human form\, and it is within that long conversation that my own work finds its footing. I begin with a simple pose\, seated\, reclining\, or standing. From there the figure begins to take its shape\, each decision emerging directly and in conversation with the material. \n\n\n\nClay has recorded the human imprint for thousands of years. After many decades of working in this medium I’ve settled into a haptic understanding\, an attentiveness to clay’s expressive materiality. Trusting gesture and the spontaneous mark\, the working composition unfolds through all stages of making as a dialogue between hand and material. Beginning with solid construction methods and ending with color applications\, slips\, glazes\, and stains are built up in pools and layers across multiple firings. Wet pigments are left to pool and move\, allowing gravity to contribute its voice within the composition. My hope is that the surface carries the accumulated depth and weight of time passing. \n\n\n\nIdentity is never singular. One is many things at once: artist\, professor\, daughter\, sister\, partner\, queer\, feminist\, educator\, a body moving through time. I don’t make work about these layers so much as from them. Experience accumulates in the body and is expressed through the hands in form\, texture\, and surface\, emerging through the creative process. \n\n\n\nReturning to the figurative motif as a vessel for self-knowledge\, this body of work considers notions of visibility and the richness of lives that exist away from the mainstream. Though not expressly autobiographical\, the work inevitably reflects my own identity and perspective. The act of making is inseparable from the act of claiming space. In a culture that too often forgets its own humanity\, creative practice itself is an act of resistance. To live creatively is to claim space\, to assert personal agency and to inhabit creative birthright.
URL:https://northernclaycenter.org/calendar/artist-talk-michelle-gregor/
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