Opening Reception: June 12, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Guest Curator Talk with Dr. Jennifer Sorkin: Saturday, June 13, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Curator Talk with Gianna Sherman: Wednesday, July 17, 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Established in 1951 as an on-site residency program for serious ceramic artists, Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts has a long and illustrious twentieth-century history, in which its founding male artists—Rudy Autio and Peter Voulkos— were elevated to mythic status within U.S. ceramics history. Celebrating the first 25 years of this century, this exhibition seeks out a new beginning, focusing on artists who challenged this assumed trajectory by embracing their own positionality: practitioners who were largely excluded from the Bray’s first fifty years: people of color, queer and women artists. Offering historical continuity, this show links the Bray’s twenty-first century future to the strength of its female progenitors and other women working throughout the Mountain West.
