Rescheduled for Wed 12/8
Wed 11/17 @ 7PM
Kent State faculty members Davin K. Ebanks and Peter Christian Johnson put together the current show at Artists Archives of the Wester Reserve, titled Kindred Objects: Ceramic & Glass from the Western Reserve, based on the idea that ceramics and glass make for a natural pairing, requiring similar technologies. The two curators have rounded up northern Ohio 23 artists from Toledo to Cleveland and points in between to show the multiplicity of themes and ideas that can be expressed through these mediums and how the seemingly limited processes required to produce such works can be bent to the artist’s will.
In conjunction with the show, AAWR is hosting a Zoom program called “Contemporary Glass With Susie Silbert.” Silbert is the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Glass at the Corning Museum of Glass and editor of the New Glass Review. She’s also worked on inter-disciplinary exhibits and written about various mediums.
For this one-hour program, Silbert will look at the innovations in studio glass technique and content in the last 70 years and explore how artists are stretching the medium’s limits and using it to express ideas about contemporary society. She’ll share the work of some of the artists doing groundbreaking work in glass.
“One of the things that excites me about contemporary glass is the way that is has come from a medium that only a few people have access to, to one that people all over the globe are using to really think through ideas, to engage materiality, to develop new concepts that really haven’t ever existed before,” she says.
The program is free; to register go to artistsarchives.org.
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