April 12 - 16, 2010
Room 371 | ACAD
Opening reception | April 15, 2010 | 5:00 PM
Exhibition for the Ceramics Visiting Artist/Instructor for the 2009-2010 School Year.
Emily Schroeder received her MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2006. Emily’s artwork deals with the issues of markmaking in the context of clay as well as ink. She is the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, including the 2001 Jerome Fellowship from the Northern Clay Center and the Sage Scholarship from the Archie Bray Foundation. She has exhibited her work across the United States as well as in Europe, Central America and Australia. Currently she is working in Calgary, Canada as the ceramics visiting artist and professor under the Alberta College of Art + Design Rawlinson Visiting Artist Initiative for the 2009-2010 academic school year. She will be returning to the United States in the summer of 2010.
"Elements of touch, intimacy and mark making are extremely important to the work that I make. I create subtle forms on which I draw imagery that is sensitive to how each pot was touched and formed. An aspect unique to my work is that every movement and gesture is marked and recorded on the surface of my pots. I have chosen this rather slow and tedious process of pinching because I believe that pinching pots instead of throwing them on a wheel or building them with slabs creates a different type of intimacy. I see my fingerprints as a sort of brush stroke. In the way that a painter paints a canvas and creates a certain sensibility in the image, I create an intimacy in my work by the way that my fingers touch the clay. Human presence and the mark of the hand are important to my work, which steps back to a time where work isn’t about production, but the touch of a fingertip."
Emily Schroeder
