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Free

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Opening First Thursday March 1, 5-8pm!

ArtXchange Gallery presents the first exhibition by the National Centre for Ceramics Studies, Europe’s largest center for ceramics studies, ever to visit the United States. Beyond Borders, a group exhibit by 20 faculty, MA, and PhD graduates based in countries including Wales, England, Ireland, Australia, Lebanon, and Korea, displays a wide range of innovative practices in ceramics. Each artist’s work pushes beyond borders of tradition, culture, or technique.

Centre artists exhibited in Beyond Borders: Nour Ali, Duncan Ayscough, Pete Castle, Lowri Davies, Janna Edwards, Jin Eui Kim, Eunyoung Lee, Natasha Mayo, Sara Moorhouse, Pauline Monkcom, Ingrid Murphy, Emma Preece, Owen Quinlan, Arun Sharma, Kate Murtagh Sheridan, Jacqui Spedding, Trish Spence, Caroline Taylor, Matt Thompson, and Conor Wilson

Ingrid Murphy, Subject Leader (director) of the National Centre for Ceramics, will travel to Seattle to conduct a lecture on March 29th, 3pm, about the exhibit and the innovative practices used by the school. Murphy is also a National Advisor for the Arts Council of Wales and a recipient of the Creative Wales Award (the largest financial award given to individual artists in Wales). Murphy’s personal artistic practice combines ceramics with new technologies such as QR codes and augmented reality markers. She has multiple pieces on display in Beyond Borders.

Funding for this exhibit and Ms. Murphy’s visit are funded in part by Wales Arts International (a partnership between the Arts Council of Wales and the British Council) which fosters artistic excellence in Wales and international relationships through the arts.

Also Showing:

In the North side of ArtXchange Gallery, two USA-based artists present focused bodies of new work created for the NCECA conference. Nicole Roberts Hoiland, visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota, presents a series of Screens exploring Moorish pattern aesthetics as well as the symbolism and function of screens throughout many cultures. Seattle artist, Adrien Miller, presents a series of figurative sculptures in positions of repose but with intriguing hints of their contemporary lives, exploring the role of meditation practice and tradition in today’s world.

Interested disciplines

Craft, Multidisciplinary Arts, Visual Arts