Get Ready for Welcome Home - our gallery focus for 2020.

We are pleased to present
Welcome Home

A year-long gallery focus for 2020, exploring all elements that make a home,
including everything from large families to those who fly solo.

There will be four core exhibits and related programming that will explore the meaning of family, the daily routines,
moments and items that surround us and add to our sense of home, and the interaction of the people within
to create that place which develops our sense of identity.

Anat Shiftan

Everyone craves a feeling of home; a place where one feels comfortable, at peace and a feeling of belonging. Artists have been depicting an expression of home in their works for centuries. In Clay Art Center’s year-long focus “Welcome Home”, artist Anat Shiftan will ask questions relating to the human condition by bringing the outside space inside, using the traditional centerpiece as her vehicle for her solo show “The Garden” in April. Followed by Kukuli Velarde, guest curator for “The Family Portrait”, who will ask invited artists to consider what family means in historical and cultural context in September.

Clay Art Center will continue its mission to support emerging artists, and artist members with the two remaining exhibits in “Welcome Home”. Clay Art Center artists and invited artists start the year off in February with a coffee & tea inspired vessels show, “Good Morning”. In July they answer that call with an emerging artist drinking vessel show juried by Julia Galloway, which features the work of undergrad and graduate artists from across the country in “A Taste of Home”.

2020 will also see Clay Art Center open its new resource room on February 7th, which reimagines their space to welcome programs, lectures and demos open to the public and artist communities.

Committed to exhibiting emerging, mid-career, and established artists Clay Art Center’s 2020 programming will be a platform for the field to express ideas towards these potent topics.

Don Reynolds

Good Morning
Opening Reception: Sat., Feb. 1, 6 - 8pm
February 1 - March 21, 2020

Good Morning kicks off the yearlong gallery focus theme of Welcome Home. Clay Art Center artists and invited nationally recognized artists come together for a celebration of our best way to start the day. Come view and/or purchase a selection of coffee & tea inspired vessels including espresso cups, mugs for your favorite morning beverage, creamers, tea pots and more!

Related Programming
Coffee Tasting with Coffeelabs of Tarrytown, NY
Friday, February 7, 2020, 11am – 1pm

Come celebrate the opening of the new Resource Room at Clay Art Center with a special coffee tasting event. Coffeelabs Roasters from Tarrytown will bring a small selection of their favorite roasts – all you have to do is Bring Your Own Mug (or maybe buy yourself a new one from our exhibit – “Good Morning”!) Find out more about the brand you are drinking – where is it from, sustainable farming, environmental impact and lots more. Tea drinkers come along – we got you covered too!

Anat Shiftan

The Garden by Anat Shiftan
Opening Reception: Sat., April 4, 6 - 8pm
April 4 - May 16, 2020

Anat Shiftan: The Garden exhibit presents themes of the domestic garden. Inspired by the power of still life and the role of the centerpiece in domestic life, Anat Shiftan creates arrangements that echo this history. She asks the viewer to question the legacy of nature, the botanical, and our material culture. Historically, still life’s depict arranged elements from nature, life in the outdoors of the domestic world, and leans on the symbolic agency of these items to suggest a critique of the human condition.

Anat Shiftan is a ceramic artist and professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, who brings her work to the Clay Art Center in a solo exhibition with themes of the domestic garden. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Pewabic Pottery, Greenwich House Pottery NY, The Clay Studio Philadelphia PA, Vessels Gallery Boston MA, and in group shows at Wave Hill NY, The Clay Studio, Great China Museum, China Jingdezhen, Jingdezhen Contemporary International Ceramics Exhibition, The Dorsky Museum, and Art Shanghai.

Related Programming
Anat Shiftan Workshop
April 4 – 5, 2020

In this workshop Anat Shiftan will teach a few simple techniques for designing tile prototypes for press molds. These prototypes will be cast in plaster for the production of multiples of the master tile. Students will learn how to press tile in the mold successfully. Techniques will include naturalistic tile-relief renderings, graphic tile relief rendering, and raised line designs. Students will design up to 3 tile designs and make molds for each finished design.

Austin Coudriet

A Taste of Home
Opening Reception: Sat., July 18, 6 - 8pm
July 18 - September 5, 2020

A Taste of Home is a juried emerging artists drinking vessel show. Clay Art Center has invited undergraduate and graduate emerging artist students from around the country to create drinking vessels that convey what home means to them. From the sculptural to functional, these vessels will give viewers a taste of up and coming ceramicists from across the country. Deadline to submit entries is April 7th.

Kukuli Velarde

The Family Portrait
Opening Reception: Sat., Sept. 12, 6 - 8pm
September 12 - November 7, 2020

The Family Portrait is a call for entry exhibition with guest juror Kukuli Velarde. We invite artists to submit works that look at the family unit as image, as a system, and as historical reference and contemporary metaphor for where we are as a culture, a society, and in our sense of selves. Deadline to submit entries of May 1st.

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