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In Clay and Cloth: The Diasporic Art of Eugene Ofori Agyei

A Ghanaian-born artist explores migration, memory, and belonging through clay, fabric, and found materials, crafting sculptural assemblages that speak to the layered experience of diaspora.

72 Hours in Longquan City, Zhejiang Province, China

Explore Longquan’s thousand-year legacy of celadon through museums, studios, and historic kiln sites—where tradition and innovation in Chinese ceramics come to life.

Clayton Bailey's World of Wonders Reimagined

Akron’s Curated Storefront revives Clayton Bailey’s World of Wonders—robot suits, radioactive pots, and all—in tribute to ceramics’ most irreverent mind.

The Body, Fragmented and Whole: Inside Susanne Ring’s TEMPEL

Susanne Ring’s book TEMPEL offers a retrospective of her decades-long practice, showcasing ceramic figures that explore embodiment, memory, and intimacy. Blending the sensibilities of painting, sculpture, and installation, her work bridges material experimentation with emotional depth.

72 Hours in Munich, Germany

Nikolaus Steindlmüller and Julie Metzdorf lead a three-day journey through Munich’s richly layered art, design, and culinary scenes—from Baroque grandeur to wood-fired kilns on the shores of Lake Chiemsee.

Exhibitions

05.23.2025

A Precarious Situation African American Heritage Amanda Prouty Bird Formation #3 Blue Cheer Ceramics china paint Conspiracy Constant Albertson contemporary ceramics Contemporary ceramists Danielle O'Malley Earthenware earthenware clays Empty Yellow Pod Enough Forty Contemporary Ceramists Fruit flies feel pain glazed stoneware Greenwich House pottery hand-built earthenware Indigenous Heritage Insurrection Inter Caetera: Old Sins Cast a Long Shadow Jason Briggs Jason Walker Jeffrey Chuang Jim Shrosbree Judit Varga Judith S. Shwartz Judith Shwartz Kelly Phelps Kyle Phelps Latino Heritage Les Roka Linda Swanson Lindsay Pichaske Lydia C. Thompson My falling sky National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts NCECA paper clay Patricia Sannit porcelain Richard Notkin Roberto Lugo Roxie Salt Lake City Simone Leigh Souvenir Steven Montgomery Steven Young Lee stoneware Syd Carpenter Tip Toland Toxic Con Trophic cascade: jaguar True and Real UMOCA underglaze Utah Utah Museum of Contemporary Art Wendy Tarlow Kaplan

True and Real: Forty Contemporary Ceramists Reveal Realities of Our Time

At UMOCA, True and Real brings together forty ceramic artists whose works transform clay and mixed media into sites of memory, identity, and personal truth.