Fall Symposium : Building Narratives: Mythology & Poetry in Clay, featuring: Virgil Ortiz & Lauren Gallaspy
Saturday Oct 28 & Sunday October 29 2017 at Houston Baptist University demos, slide lectures, intriguing q&a, panel discussion
Virgil Ortiz is a Pueblo artist, potter, fashion designer and photographer from Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico. Ortiz makes traditional Cochiti figurative pottery, experimental figurative pottery, traditional pottery vessels, and designer clothing. He is probably best known for his edgy pottery figures — his contemporary take on the traditional Cochiti pottery figures (monos) from the late 1800s. http://www.virgilortiz.com/about/
Lauren Gallespy makes sculptures, vessels and drawings about the sometimes violent, sometimes pleasurable, and almost always complex consequences that occur when bodies and objects come into contact with one another. http://www.laurengallaspy.com
Visiting talks by Laura Wellon (CORE resident Museum of Fine Arts Houston) and Perry Price (Director Houston Center for Contemporary Craft)
All relevant info is on the attached JPEG. Please sign up or pass on to any one interested.
Register and pay here https://www.clayhouston.org
$75 ClayHouston members | $100 non members | $35 full time students
Submitted by Jessica Kreutter