Artstream Nomadic Gallery, the mobile pottery gallery, will be at the Department of Art and Art History March 7-8. Three guest artists will be coming, including Ayumi Horie, Lorna Meaden and Lisa Orr.
Each artist will give an artist talk and demonstration during the visit.
Monday, March 7: 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. artist talk by Lisa Orr in Richards Hall Rm. 118; 2-5 p.m. Demos by all three artists in Richards Hall Rm. 118.
Tuesday, March 8: 10:30-11:30 a.m. artist talk by Ayumi Horie in Richards Hall Rm. 118; 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. artist talk by Lorna Meaden in Richards Hall Rm. 118; 2-5 p.m. Demos by all three artists in Richards Hall Rm. 118.
The Artstream Nomadic Gallery has been putting contemporary ceramic art on the street since 2002. It is a traveling exhibition space housed in a restored 1967 Airstream trailer. Based in Carbondale, Colorado, it has exhibited in more than 150 locations.
Horie, Meaden and Orr will be presenting free public lectures as part of the Hixson-Lied Visiting Artists & Scholars series.
Horie is a full-time studio potter from Portland, Maine, who makes functional pots, mainly with drawings of animals. She was recently awarded a Distinguished Fellow grant in Craft by the United States Artists and is the first recipient of Ceramics Monthly’s Ceramic Artist of the Year award.
Meaden, who is from Durango, Colorado, is a studio potter who creates work that is soda-fired porcelain. She says her work begins with the consideration of function, and the goal is for the form and surface of the pots to be interdependent. She received her B.A. from Fort Lewis College and her M.F.A. from Ohio University.
For more than 25 years, Orr has been a professional potter and a student of ceramics. She completed an M.F.A. at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and later received grants, including a Fulbright and a MAAA/NEA. She teaches, lectures and shows nationally and internationally.
The Hixson-Lied Visiting Artists & Scholars Lecture Series is underwritten by the Hixson-Lied Endowment, with additional support from other sources. The program brings notable artists, scholars and designers to UNL’s Department of Art and Art History, enhancing the education of students and enriching the culture of the state by providing a way for Nebraskans to interact with luminaries in the fields of art, art history and design.
Richards Hall is located at Stadium Drive and T sts. For more information, contact the Department of Art and Art History at (402) 472-5522.