The Clay Studio | 50 Years in the Making

Resident, Guest Artist, Associate, Staff Alumni

Jun 13th - Sep 1st, 2024

This Alumni Exhibition showcases artwork to reflect the current practice of the This Alumni Exhibition showcases artwork to reflect the current practice of the over 150 artist who have participated in The Clay Studio's Resident Artist Program, Guest Artist Program, and Associate Artist Program over the 50 years since its founding.

The artists who work within the walls of The Clay Studio are the creative engine that keeps the organization going and focused on supporting professional artists at all levels, emerging, mid-career, and established. We are thrilled to bring together over 100 of the artists who have had meaningful, sometimes career-altering experiences at The Clay Studio while also sharing their creativity and inspiration with our entire community.

For the exhibition 50 Years in the Making, we have invited current and former Resident, Guest Artist, Associate, Staff Alumni to create work that explores how being part of the community during the residency affected them as individual artists. Each will reflect on how seeing themselves as one part of a whole differed from other, more solitary times in their artistic careers.

The work in the exhibition will explore the memories of being in that place of transformation and how the artists saw their place within the larger group. The Clay Studio itself represents coalescence. The thousands of people who have come together over the last 50 years to create the organization, develop programs, and make art with us are the parts that have come together to create this wonderful entity. An organization not only reflects the people who comprise it, it is a manifestation of their collective selves. The Residents who each spent several years using The Clay Studio as their artistic home have made TCS what it is today.

50 Years in the Making will be a thought-provoking look at the artistic transformations of these artists during their time in our artistic programs and how coming together to shape The Clay Studio in turn shaped them as individuals. Many of us have been part of groups that have changed our perceptions of ourselves during our lives, and therefore the feelings they represent will be universally understandable.

The current and former Artists of The Clay Studio are some of the most acclaimed ceramic artists in the country. On the occasion of our 50th anniversary we want to bring together their amazing work and celebrate with our national community.

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50 Years in the Making

Artwork

Glazescape (Molten Cloud)

Wandering Part 1

Blanc Buisson

Both Sides

Bear

51FB1

Bowl Cut

Wall Of Practice

Crossed Legs

Noir Buisson

Turquoise Teapot

Candelabra

Eternal Home- Mountain Series

Anxious Toby Jug

Universal Human no.1

2/1: Tenderness

Dragon Boat Vase

Deprived

Small Head No.1

Debbie

Wash Basin #2

Prologue

Residuum

Pride Pot Cup 1

Head of Youth

Feather Pot

Tall Cone Vase

Woohoo

Red Wreath: Essential Oil Diffuser

Kensington Misericord

Brutalist Hooters

Bloom Vase

Untitled

Wok Bowl

Scaredy Cat (Mr.Meow)

Turtle Jar

The Basket

Full-Zip Vest For Geema's Neglected Teapot

Stoneware Bowl

Shape Vase

None

Round The Mountain

A Coin to a Cat (Foil Ball Heaven)

Teapot

Vacancy

Razor Clam Necklace

Jug

Sticks and Stones

Warpped Pot

Jar

Vessel

Sticks and Stones (Night Light)

Reflection

Pride Pot Cup 2

Pride Pots Cup 3

Pride Pots #teelyourstory

Pride Pots Splayed Open

Perpetual Bloom (part 1)

An Imposible End

Lizard Mosaic

Untitled - Pair of Putti Statuettes

Soft Square Cropped Jar

Dinner Tray - Black

Dinner Tray Blue

Dinner Tray Green

Dinner Tray Orange

Corruption of Symbols

Looking for Shelter

Consciousness

Aviator