Cups! Cups! Cups! One of the most popular and enthusiastically anticipated exhibitions at the Louisiana State University School of Art Glassell Gallery is our 8 Fluid Ounces: National Juried / Invitational Ceramic Cup Exhibition. Every other spring, over 100 completely unique cups arrive in our gallery and hundreds of visitors come in to handle, peruse and even take them home as treasures. Keeping up with tradition and demand, the LSU School of Art Ceramics area in conjunction with the Art Gallery will host our fifth edition - 8 Fluid Ounces 2012 from January 25 – February 25, 2012 at the Glassell Gallery in the Shaw Center for the Arts. The installation will feature ceramic vessels that literally or conceptually address the idea of ‘cup’, Artist juror Kristen Kieffer will review all submissions and visit Baton Rouge. On Saturday, January 28, 2012, She will give a gallery talk at 5:30pm followed by the reception from 6-8pm.
This exciting exhibition features work from over 70 artists from across the country including Hawaii, California, New Mexico, Maine and Louisiana. It is no wonder this exhibition draws such distinguished participants from across the nation; the LSU School of Art has one of the highest ranked Ceramic programs in the country according to US News and World Reports. This has been a consistent accomplishment.
With so many diverse, prominent, and innovative artists participating, Eight Fluid Ounces 2012 will be a key cultural event for LSU and Baton Rouge. Visitors will be exposed to countless variations of ceramic techniques and processes from wood fired to raku, to electric kiln. Glaze, form and function will be explored in almost every way imaginable. One could teach a course in glaze history or ceramic arts development using the cups in the exhibition. It is an illuminating experience. For many years now, the LSU School of Art Gallery has been building momentum in our efforts to provide the LSU student body, faculty, staff, and surrounding community access to fine art of the highest quality. It is gratifying to see a constant and diverse crowd at our gallery receptions indicating the rising level of public interest in the School of Art galleries as we take our place in the ongoing efforts to support arts in Louisiana.
JUROR: Kristen Kieffer is a full-time studio potter and Workshop Instructor in Massachusetts. She received her BFA in Ceramics from the N.Y.S.C.C. at Alfred University and MFA in Ceramics from Ohio University. Her professional experience includes being an Artist-in-Residence with studio potter John Glick in Farmington Hills, MI, as well as at Guldagergård in Skælskør, Denmark, the Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN and the Worcester Center for Crafts in Worcester, MA. Kristen has exhibited her work internationally in juried and invitational exhibitions, as well as taught workshops around North America at craft centers and universities. She has work in numerous private and public collections including the Taipei County Yingee Ceramics Museum in Taipei, Taiwan, the Guldagergård Museum of International Ceramic Art in Skælskør, Denmark, and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Fort Wayne, IN.
Cups will be for sale and all events are free and open to the public.
This program was supported in part by funds from the Louisiana State Arts Council and the Louisiana Division of the Arts and by the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge through the Decentralized Arts Funding Program.
8 Fluid Ounces 2012
A National Juried/Invitational
Ceramic Cup Exhibition
Juried by Kristen Kieffer
January 25 - February 25, 2012
January 28, 2012
Gallery Talk: 5:30pm
Opening Reception: 6-8pm
