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2000 Exhibitions
Three Jerome Artists
January 14 – February 19
Recipients of 1999 Jerome Artists Project Grants: Angie Beekman, Edith Garcia, Jen Richardson. Their work included pots, sculpture, and installations which changed over the course of the exhibition. The exhibition was underwritten by the Jerome Foundation as part of their support for the emerging artists grant program.1999-2000 Masters Exhibition: Stephen De Staebler, Jack Earl, Robert Turner, Peter Voulkos, Betty Woodman, Eva Zeisel
March 3 – April 15
Biennial exhibition of work by the six participants in the Regis Masters Series over those two years. With the exception of Eva Zeisel’s work, most of the objects in the exhibition were sculptural, from abstracted vessel forms to figurative and narrative works.
From left to right: Stephan De Staebler, Betty Woodman, Peter Voulkos, Robert Turner, Eva Zeisel, Jack Earl
Lasting Connections: James Tanner with Brian Kuehn, Bradley Sunnarborg, Paul Wandless, Sandra Westley
May 5 – June 10
This exhibition honored long-time ceramics professor Jim Tanner at Minnesota State University at Mankato, who selected four former students to exhibit with him. The sculptures in the exhibition ranged from the installation of hands by Sandra Westley to the large boat-like sarcophagi of Bradley Sunnarborg to Jim Tanner’s intensely colored, powerful wall pieces.
In conjunction with the exhibition, Jim Tanner delivered a lecture at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, about his own work and views on teaching.
From left to right: James L. Tanner, Bradley Sunnarborg, Brian Kuehn, Paul Wandless, Sandra Westley
Studio Artists Exhibition
June 23 – July 22
The biennial exhibition of artists in residence at NCC was juried in 2000 by Deborah Sigel, artist and assistant professor at Millersville University in Pennsylvania. The quality of work was evidence of the strong artists working in the Center's studios.August Five McKnight Artists: Gary Erickson, Will Swanson, and Leila Denecke, Eiko Kishi and Deborah Sigel
August 4 – September 2
Gary Erickson and Will Swanson received McKnight Fellowships for Ceramic Artists in 1999; Leila Denecke, Eiko Kishi and Deb Sigel were awarded residency grants in 1998 and 1999. The objects included in the exhibition covered the range of possibilities in clay, from quiet, utilitarian sets of plates and cups to mixed media sculptures of steel and Egyptian paste to abstract organic forms. The exhibition was supported by The McKnight Foundation as part of the Fellowship Program.
From left to right: Gary Erickson, Deborah Sigel, Leila Denecke, Eiko Kishi, Will Swanson
Ten Years in Retrospect
September 24 – October 29
This was a group show of work by over 50 artists, representing a sampling of those who had been included in curated exhibitions during the Center's first 10 years. The sampling was similar to the range of the exhibition program and included sculpture and utilitarian pots; work by regional and national artists, emerging and well-known, in an array of finishes, clay bodies and styles. The objects in the exhibition were subsequently acquired to form the core of a permanent teaching collection.As part of the exhibition, the Clay Center commissioned a special film produced by Michael Manzavrakos and edited by John Gwinn. Mike filmed the hands of a number of different clay artists, doing just about anything a clay artist does with clay. The final result was a fascinating visual essay on the process of making and creating. It was projected on the title wall of the exhibition, and held visitors rapt.