Ceramics in the Environment
December 2, 2023 — March 2, 2024
Craft Garden
Exhibition Reception
Saturday, December 2, 3:00 – 4:30 PM
On view in Houston Center for Contemporary Craft’s community-led Craft Garden, Ceramics in the Environment is a plein-air exhibition of site-specific ceramics made over the course of the MFAH’s Glassell School of Art’s Special Topics course.
In this fourth–and largest–iteration of an ongoing exhibition series, 13 featured artists investigate creating artwork for an outdoor environment and responding to the living histories of a site in clay media. The sculptures on view are installed in dialogue with the plants and raw materials cultivated in the Craft Garden and reflect the flora and fauna of the site. Visitors can explore seed pods rendered in monumental scale, a temporal installation that responds to precipitation, an undulating line sculpture that traces the base of a live tree, and works that reflect concerns about a changing climate.
Exhibiting artists: Angela Corson, Jane Greenberg, Claude Habayeb, Johana Hartjen, Una Kirkpatrick, Adriana Lorusso, Linda May Martin, John O’Brien, Nicole O’Bryan, Meghan Rutzebeck, Suzette Schutze, Marjorie Silverstein, and Gita Van Woerden.
Ceramics in the Environment was developed in partnership between MFAH’s Glassell School of Art and Houston Center for Contemporary Craft.
Image credits:
- “Ceramics in the Environment” ceramic sculpture. Photo by Jeff Forster.
- “Ceramics in the Environment” ceramic sculpture. Photo by Jeff Forster.
- “Ceramics in the Environment” student Claude Habateb in the HCCC Craft Garden. Photo by Jeff Forster.
- “Ceramics in the Environment” students in the studio at MFAH/Glassell School of art. Photo by Jeff Forster.
- “Ceramics in the Environment” student Suzette Schutze in the studio at MFAH/Glassell School of art. Photo by Jeff Forster.
- “Ceramics in the Environment” student Una Kirkpatrick in the studio at MFAH/Glassell School of art. Photo by Jeff Forster.
