Art & Design Department Invites You To Return to the Table posted 10/1/09
Alumnus Clay Leonard's exhibit on display in Heritage Room through Oct. 16.

ADRIAN, Mich. - Adrian College's Art and Design Department welcomes alumnus Clay Leonard's exhibition Return to the Table to campus. His exhibit will be on view in Shipman Library's Heritage Room through October 16. The library's hours are Monday through Thursday 8 a.m. - 11 p.m., Friday 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., and Sunday noon - 11 p.m.

Leonard graduated from AC with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in April 2006. He was employed as a teaching assistant in the Art and Design Department for the 2006-07 school year, after which he began his Master of Fine Arts program in ceramics at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), where he was awarded graduate assistantships. He completed this degree last May.

Leonard's work has been exhibited in Chicago, Flagstaff, Philadelphia, Madison, Houston, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the states of New York, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Nebraska, Colorado, California, and more. His works have been published in a new release of “Ceramics Today” and in national magazines “Ceramics Monthly, Clay Times, and the NCECA Journal” (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts). He is teaching part-time at BGSU and Owen Community College (Toledo).

According to Leonard, his work consists of "utilitarian vessel forms composed of multiple compartments . . . intended for use in a domestic setting, and to enrich the interaction amongst individuals and between the individual and the food being displayed." The importance of gathering together to perform the ritual of a family or communal meal is at the heart of it.

The Heritage Room is located in Shipman Library on the College’s campus off of Williams St. More information can be obtained by contacting Catherine Royer at 517-264-3903 or via e-mail at croyer@adrian.edu