Clay & Color: Red Planet Resonance is an intimate exhibition that brings together (select number) ceramic artists from across the country to explore the deep connections between clay, memory, and the cosmos. At its core, the exhibition considers clay as both material and metaphor: a quiet listener shaped by water, heat, pressure, and time. Like the scarred surface of Mars, clay remembers the marks of all it has encountered, recording histories in layers, fissures, and textures that invite close looking and reflection.
Opening Reception: Friday, February 6, 6–8pm
February 3-28, 2026
Clay becomes a vessel for memory, curiosity, and wonder, holding traces of both personal and planetary histories. Each artist engages this material as a means of translating lived experience into form, allowing intimate recollections to surface through color, depth, and touch.
Brad Bachmeier’s Terrestrial Topography evokes landscapes shaped over millennia, reminding viewers of clay’s role as one of humanity’s earliest and most essential materials. Jacob Jackson, in Mantis House, translates organic structures and color into tactile, resonant forms. Kara Artman’s American Trifles Channel Nine channels childhood wonder and planetary curiosity, folding playful images that blur the boundaries between nostalgia, imagination, and science fiction.
Explore a shared longing to understand our place in the universe—to touch both the familiar earth beneath our feet and the vast, unknown cosmos beyond. Linger, imagine, and listen to the stories embedded in clay.
This exhibition is curated by Anne Thiam, a ceramic artist whose work distills the essence of lived experience into sculptural form. Click HERE to explore her work.
