Category: EVENTS

LIKE A THOUSAND YEARS AGO

AUGUST 19, 23  & 29- CLAY AND PIT FIRING WORKSHOPS

Like a Thousand Years Ago, is a project by Jennifer Bennett (Germany) in partnership with Popps Packing and FILTER Detroit. Popps Packing will be hosting a series of clay and pit firing workshops with Jennifer, who has collected and processed clay from Ohio and Detroit that will be used by participants to create small scale works such as sound balls, beads, little sculptures and vessels.  All works that will be fired over night in a pit, an ancient practice still employed around the world.

These workshops are FREE and open to participants of all ages.

Clay Workshop 1- Wednesday, August 19, 5-8PM

Clay Workshop 2+ Pit Firing 1- Sunday, August 23, 2-5PM

Pit Firing 2- Saturday, August 29, 2PM

http://www.jenniferbennett.net
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THINKING COLON: New works by KYLIE LOCKWOOD

 

OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, February 7
7PM-10PM
Show runs through February 28th

Two round solid forms, one on top of the other, not touching but inherently linked.

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These forms draw attention to a division, a gap, a space in between two separate but connected things. They are a joint. They join. A passage from inside to outside. A phase in which material is broken and converted into a substance suitable for absorption and assimilation. A state like that of the soft setting stage of concrete. The pliable period that is only momentary, where you can take your hand and make an imprint in the surface. The state before it is solidified into rock and after the liquidity that runs through your fingers. The liminal space in between.

 

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Kylie Lockwood received her MFA from Hunter College and BFA from the College for Creative Studies. She has exhibited internationally in Berlin, London, Madrid, New York, Philadelphia, Miami and Detroit. Kylie has participated in a number of residencies, including Skowhegan, the Hambidge Creative Residency Program and the Contemporary Artists Center. Her work has been written about in the Metro Times, Infinite Mile and the New York Times. Kylie currently teaches in the Fine Art Department at the College for Creative Studies and is the co-director of Cave Gallery.