2024-2025 Visiting Artist Series

Buy Our Selves

February 17- March 7, 2025

Ceramics

The KSU Art Department is excited to announce the opening of the "Buy Our Selves" ceramics show, featuring the work of our Artist in Residence, Spencer Cheek.

Location: Chapman Gallery

Closing reception: 6-8pm on the March 7^th

This thought-provoking exhibit explores themes of identity, consumerism, and the human form through Spencer Cheek’s unique ceramic works. It offers an opportunity to engage with powerful reflections on contemporary culture.

Join us in celebrating the creativity and vision of the KSU ceramics community!
We look forward to seeing you there!

Spaces Between

October 28- November 22, 2024

Spaces Between is a conversation of process; building in new directions with clay that dialog surface design, technical processes, and materiality to build structures. Both ceramic artists, Andrea Moon and Dryden Wells create artworks that ask the viewer to look between the lines and through the negative space to understand form and reflect content.

Wells

Dryden Wells is a ceramicist and sculptor based in St. Louis, whose work is inspired by the process of creation. With years of experience as an instructor, fabricator, and technician of metals, ceramics, and wood, Wells’ sense of curiosity and discovery guides his artistic practice. Drawing inspiration from “the act of construction, deconstruction and reconstruction,” Wells creates work with polish, playfulness, and a commitment to craft.

Ceramic Vase by Andrea Moon

Andrea Moon constructs complex ceramic structures through the repetition of simple forms. By stacking stoneware ribbons or building coils into basket-like structures, Moon produces networks with each piece relying on its neighbor to build a larger whole. Outside of the studio, Moon has prioritized the construction of a strong arts community, directing residency and education programs at the Red Lodge Clay Center, The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China, and Craft Alliance in St. Louis. She currently is a lecturer of ceramics at Washington University, St. Louis.

Printmaking, Preservation, and Renewl: MAPC 2024 Conference

October 2- 6, 2024

MAPC 2024 From The Ashes: Printmaking, Preservation, and Renewal will explore the relationship between printmakers and the natural environment. This conference will showcase those who draw upon this connection to challenge convention, preserve aspects of tradition, and define printmaking for the future: the artists, innovators, scientists, experimenters, curators, critics, educators, students, and professionals who are driven to make a difference.

Multiple exhibitions will be open to the public in Willlard Hall, which inclued: