The Aurora Potters’ Guild annual holiday sale is November 10th and 11th at the Community College of Aurora CentreTech campus Student Center Rotunda. The sale will be open on Friday the 10th from 10 am to 6 pm, and Saturday the 11th from 9 am to 3 pm. I’m excited to be joining it this year — I’ll have some of my current tableware (plates, salt-and-pepper shakers, and cups), planters, and miniature sheep sculptures as well as wall tiles for sale. Let me know if there is something on the website here, on my Instagram, or in my Etsy shop that you would like to reserve!
Safety Zone (8/20/21 to 9/12/21)
Eye Lounge is pleased to present Safety Zone, works by Amy Sansbury Manning in clay and other media. The ceramic wall pieces in this exhibition extract motifs from the built environment such as telephone poles, streetlights, utilities, and road signs. They are reflected and rotated to create symmetrical patterns inspired by the geometric designs of Islamic tile work and the rosettes of Talavera tiles. These works consider where pattern breaks down and becomes uneasy.
The symbols that signify safety also inevitably say danger, and order necessarily implies control. The traffic cone is an epitome of this safety/danger doubling, and sculptures of this common object in different media explore some of our emotional reactions to constraint. A warning can spark both hypersensitivity to potential hazards and joyful rebellion. Safety Zone invites viewers to consider the boundaries between order and disorder.
The exhibition runs from Friday, August 20, 2021 through September 12, 2021.
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