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2005 Exhibitions
Three Jerome Artists
January 14 – February 27
Gallery M
The annual Jerome Artists Exhibition featured recent work by three emerging Minnesotan ceramic artists who received project grants in 2004: Kate Bauman, Heather Rae Nameth and Todd Severson. Made possible by a grant from St. Paul's Jerome Foundation, the exhibition presented works completed within the previous year.
Pictured above left to right:
Kate Bauman, Encampment, 2004, soda-fired porcelain, 15" x 16" x 11.5"
Heather Rae Nameth, Gilded Lady Series: Trophy, 2004, earthenware, 28" x 11" x 4.5"
Todd Severson, Nest (detail), 2004, earthenware, glaze, fishing line, 73" x 18"
Farraday Newsome
January 14 – February 27
Gallery A
Best known for her colorfully fantastic majolica vessels, Farrady Newsome confronted this expectation with an exhibition in black and white at Northern Clay Center. She earlier developed a body of work that was covered in bright color, exuberant wrap-around patterns, and friendly fruits and flowers.
The Social Life of Pouring Pots
March 11 – May 8
Gallery M
Northern Clay Center, a medium-specific institution, further focused its attention in this exhibition to pots made for a particular function. The pots were selected from public and private collections, including The Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Exchanging Views: The Clay Studio's Resident Artists
March 11 – May 8
Gallery A
This two-part exhibition began in 2001 when the Philadelphia-based ceramic art center The Clay Studio displayed works by artists affiliated with Northern Clay Center. NCC reciprocated by hosting The Clay Studio's Resident Artists for the second installment of this exhibition. Artists included were: Jerry Bennett, Paul Donnelly, Kate Doody, Zach Duncan-Tessmer, Rain Harris, Rob Kirsch, Harin Lee, Adelaid Paul, Kari Radasch, Rob Raphael, Hide Sadohara and Julie York.
Perforation
May 20 – July 10
Gallery M
Ceramic objects have historically been assigned to one of two categories: functional or artistic. Often the criteria used to determine the category to which an object belongs are arbitrary: one vessel is functional, another is artistic, though either could be useful and both are beautiful. Moreover, the delineation suggests a mutual exclusivity that there can be no consideration of functional objects as artistic, nor of artistic objects as functional. After closing The Social Life of Pouring Pots, an exhibition of functional pots, most of which are housed at an art museum, Northern Clay Center explores this dichotomy with an exhibition of perforated vessels. Many of the objects featured in this exhibition resemble vessels or other functional objects, but the artists have perforated the vessel walls or surfaces. In doing so, perforation becomes a device that eliminates an object's "functionality" and instead establishes it as artistic or sculptural. This exhibition literally pokes holes in the delineation of ceramics into two categories, prompting questions about what purposes such a categorization serves; what, if anything, differentiates a functional object from an artistic object; and what devices, like perforation, are used to classify objects as one and not the other.
Artists included in this exhibition include: Tony Marsh, Jeffrey Mongrain, Mary Roehm, Marit Tingleff and Xavier Toubes. Tony Marsh and Jeffrey Mongrain will each offer a workshop during their terms as artists in residence.
Pictured above: Tony Marsh, Perforated Vessel and Floating Contents, 2002, earthenware, steel and glaze, 4.5" x 10" x 10"
Jami McKinnon: Social Isolation
May 20 – July 10
Gallery A
The circus comes to Northern Clay Center's Gallery A in Jami McKinnon's mixed media sculpture installation, Social Isolation. The South Carolinian artist uses carnival sideshow imagery to address weighty topics like difference and acceptance within an accessible and even whimsical arena. McKinnon sculpts human and animal hybrids and in doing so presents anomalies that are simultaneously normal expectations at the circus and creatures that evoke pity, fear and fascination. McKinnon pursues the circus's ability to allow for acceptance amidst often-extreme difference, while acknowledging that they are acceptable to circus-goers only as freaks, or as the objects of a voyeuristic gaze. She does this hoping to present an opportunity to examine what our criteria for acceptance of others' differences are. McKinnon received her M.F.A. from the University of Florida – Gainesville in 2002 and her M.A. and B.F.A. from the University of South Carolina – Columbia in 1998 and 1996, respectively. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and is included in the permanent collection at the Appalachian Center for Crafts in Smithville, Tennessee.
Pictured above: Guarded, 2004, whiteware, slip, glaze, pigment, wax, steel, wood, fabric, 4.8" x 8" x 8"
2005 Artists of NCC
July 23 – August 28
Galleries M & A
Once every two years, Northern Clay Center turns its exhibition spotlight on our many talented teachers, students, resident artists and clay camp-goers. We invite you to view the wide variety of art-making that goes on at NCC, including functional and sculptural works, low- and high-fire clays, traditional reduction glazes and soda-fired surfaces, and everything in between.Six McKnight Artists
September 23 – October 30
Galleries M & A
Recipients of the 2004 McKnight Artist Fellowships for Ceramic Artists, Andrea Leila Denecke (Minneapolis) and Matthew Metz (Houston), exhibited new work in this six-person show, along with 2004 McKnight Resident Artists, Eileen Cohen (Mendocino, California) and Satoru Hoshino (Shiga, Japan), and 2003 McKnight Resident Artists, Kurt Webb (Palatine, Illinois) and David S. East (Columbia, Missouri). The $25,000 fellowships are given to established Minnesota artists in recognition of excellence in the field of ceramics. The residency grants provide mid-career artists from outside Minnesota a $5,000 stipend and a studio at the Clay Center for three months of uninterrupted work.
'tis a gift... the 15th Annual Holiday Exhibition and Sale
November 12 – December 30
GallerY M
Just in time for holiday season shopping sprees, Northern Clay Center stocked its galleries with new pottery and sculpture by 70 regional and national ceramic artists.
Participating artists included: Martye Allen, Judith Altobell, Posey Bacopoulos, Chris Baskin, Megan Bergström, Robert Bowman, William Brouillard, Stephanie Carlson, Kevin Caufield, Becky Chappell, Victoria Christen, Michael Connelly, Sandra Daulton Shaughnessey, Andrea Leila Denecke, Josh DeWeese, Marc Digeros, Paul Donnelly, Paul Dresang, Anne Elliot, Sanam Emami, Gary Erickson, Jil Franke, Willem Gebben, Bill Gossman, Katharine Gotham, Ryan Greenheck, James Grittner, Richard Gruchalla and Carrin Rosetti, Sarah Heimann, Todd Holmberg, Bob and Cheryl Husby, Laurel Izard and Edwin Shelton, Sarah Jaeger, Shirley Johnson, Jan McKeachie Johnston, Matt Kelleher, Maren Kloppmann, Gib Krohn, Ben Krupka, Steve Lee, Lee Love, Warren MacKenzie, Julia Macy, Tim Marcotte, Ruth Martin, Allison McGowan, Ron Meyers, Lisa Naples, Farraday Newsome, Mike Norman, Jeff Noska, Jeff Oestreich, Donovan Palmquist, Adam Posnak, Elizabeth Robinson, S.C. Rolf, Monica Rudquist, Irene Saito, Patricia Sannit, Pete Scherzer, Emily Schroeder, Deb Schwartzkopf, Jo Severson, Laurie Shaman, McKenzie Smith, Will Swanson, Treisch Voelker, Christy Wert, Geof Wheeler and Tara Wilson.
& Counting
November 12 – December 30
GallerY A
In commemoration of our anniversary, this exhibition included work from Northern Clay Center's teaching collection in Gallery A. The exhibition included the artful results of over 200 workshops and artists' residencies during the past 15 years. These unadorned bisqued pots and sculpture not only display a range of possibilities for work in clay, but also are emblematic of our organization, which is itself a constant work-in-progress.