Clay Art Center

For the past four years in February, Clay Art Center has hosted theme-based national invitational exhibitions with great success.  Its first was in 2007 with Cups Coming Together: Clay Art Center Celebrates 50 Years, featuring 160 cups by 160 artists. In 2008, CAC hosted potPOURri: pots that pour, featuring pitchers, ewers, gravy boats, cruets, etc.  In 2009, Under Cover, featured lidded containers and last year Shino Redux 2010  featured Shino pots by 75 artists and was curated by Malcolm Davis!  This year, in February 2011, the gallery walls will be filled with plates and platters!

The works on display will be mostly functional, with a few non-functional items thrown in to challenge our concepts of what a plate can be.  The plates will be breakfast, lunch and dinner sized, and the platters will be what each artist envisions to be platter-sized. This salon-style exhibit will show the breadth of the field with this singular form and to give us all the opportunity to view (and take home) works that have the ability to enhance our in-home dining and living experiences. And as the title suggests, it is the platter or plate itself that is the special “who” at the table.  When we have handmade works at our dinner table, we are bringing that artist to the table as well.

The participating artists range from emerging to established in their careers and include:   Tomoko Abe,  Jennifer Allen, Wesley Anderegg, Peter Arnow, Keiko Ashida, Lorna Awalt, Posey Bacopolous, Kirsten Bassion, Ingrid Bathe, Parviz Batliwala, Dalia Berman, Mary Kay Botkins, Lynn Smiser Bowers, Douglas Breitbart, Jeanne Carreau, Jennifer Cherpock, Linda Christianson, Sam Chung, Bede Clarke,  Andrew Coombs, Bernadette Curran, Charity Davis-Woodard, Bruce Dehnert, Sanam Emami, Marty Fielding, Kathryn Finnerty, Shanna Fliegel, Karen Ford, Julia Galloway, Steven Godfrey, Ryan Greenheck, Martha Grover, Tyler Gulden, Molly Hatch, Gail Heidel, Robin Henschel, Debra Holiber, Bryan Hopkins, Ayumi Horie, Meredith Host, Heather Houston, Matt Hyleck, Nick Joerling, Natalie Kase, Reena Kashyap, Michael Kline, Maren Kloppmann, Sarah Koster, Eva Kwong, Deborah Lecce, Kazuko Lee, Steve Lee, Denis Licul, Suze Lindsay, Janet Lipow, Matt Long, David MacDonald, Loren Maron, Ginny Marsh, Deborah Mawhinney, Jon McMillan, Jenny Mendes, Matthew Metz, Leigh Taylor Mickelson, Bob Miranti, Rimmie Mosley, Rene Murray, Kiyomi Noda, Jeff Oestreich, Mari Ogihara, Neil Patterson, Aysha Peltz, Sandi Pierantozzi, Ariel Plantz,  Brenda Quinn, Kari Radasch, Barbara Rittenberg, Elizabeth Robinson, Stephen Rodriguez, Harriet Ross, Deborah Schwartzkopf, Virginia Scotchie, Ellen Shankin, Mark Shapiro, Roberta Shapiro, Andy Shaw, Linda Sikora, Collette Smith, Gertrude Graham Smith, Kevin Snipes, Kristina Stafford, Chris Staley, Florence Suerig, Hatsumi Suyama, Priya Tambe, Georgia Tenore, Kevin Thomas, Kyla Toomey, Todd Wahlstrom, Jackie Welsh, Emily Free Wilson, Tara Wilson, Susan Wortman, Gwendolyn Yoppolo and Sheryl Zacharia.