Origins was a Bachelor of Fine Arts exhibition in Ceramics featuring works by Emily Bauer, Breanna Kohlmeyer, Amber Langhus, Andrea Rivera Cisneros, Andrew Smith, Brooke Solarte, and Sam Staas. As they explored the maplike beginnings of their development as artists using ceramics, printmaking, painting, embroidery, and installations, they dove into concepts such as mental health, nostalgia, realistic depictions of women, abstract forms, biological systems, and intuitive production.

My portion of this show focused on research and discovery through intuitive production. With over two hundred pieces made for the show, the exposition featured wares in every stage of production, from greenware to glazed, with clay bodies ranging from porcelain to novel flameware. The show was designed to highlight the process of creating ceramic functional wares, as viewers were greeted with a wall of experimental glaze combinations with accompanying notes upon entering the show. As they walked the space, designed to guide them through the process of research and the resulting discovery, they were able to connect the beginning with the end of the process, as the back of the wall sporting notes and experiments was outfitted with a gallery style arrangement of four styles of resolved forms, who’s shapes and surfaces were painstakingly chosen from mounds of results.