ADRIAN COLLEGE PRESENTS 'ETHEREAL AURA' posted 1/31/05
Exhibit Features Soda and Salt Fired Ceramics

Postcard from the show (L: Curtis Stewardson, Plate, salt fired earthenware. R: Tara Wilson, Set of Vases, soda fired stoneware.)

Kirk Mangus, Curtis Stewardson, Chris Baskin and Tara Wilson will display their soda and salt fired ceramic artwork at the Stubnitz Gallery on the campus of Adrian College February 7 - 25.

Kirk Mangus, a resident of Ohio, is a ceramics professor at Kent State University and has won numerous awards and grants, with much of his artwork on display in many museum collections. Curtis Stewardson is a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation located in Helena, Mont. His artwork embodies a sense of geologic time, driven by formal aesthetics, notions of serving, and how pottery can speak to our awareness of mortality. Chris Baskin from Rome, Georgia, has been a visiting professor for both Northern Arizona University and James Madison University; his wheel-thrown stoneware and porcelain fired wood and soda atmospheres show a remarkable brilliance. Tara Wilson, hailing from Massachusetts, is the studio manager and an adjunct instructor at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and believes that the simple things in life are the most important.

Stubnitz Gallery is located in Downs Hall. Downs Hall is located on Madison Street on the Adrian College campus. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday noon to 4 p.m. and Thursday from noon until 9 p.m. For further information contact gallery director Pi Benio at 517-264-3901.

For further information, contact gallery director Pi Benio at 517-264-3901.

(Go to the department of art and design)

Release by Steve Slocum '06