In partnership with the Socially Engaged Craft Collective (SECC), c3:initiative invites you to join us for Social Objects, an exhibition highlighting the intersection of socially engaged art and the ceramic medium. The opening reception will feature a variety of claybased interactive projects, performances, and games that focus on collaboration with communities in Portland. Social Objects runs concurrently with the 2017 National Conference on Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), from March 23 April 14.
This exhibition includes works from 14 members of the SECC who represent a wide range of practices and approaches. Works include Holly Hanessian’s Touch Sensorium, an installation work which invites visitors to explore tactile sensations through clay, Forrest Sincoff Gard’s Waffle Toss, a participatory paytoplay game involving ceramic waffles and a foam toaster, Amanda Leigh Evans’ From and To Dust, a longterm collaborative urn project exploring death and dying with individuals in the greater Portland area, and M.C. Baumstark’s Menstrual Cup Project, a fun, destigmatizing performance with cocktails and souvenir ceramic menstrual cups to casually approach menstruation and its cultural connotations. Other works will move beyond c3’s physical location such as Nicole Seisler's Studio Souvenirs, a series of pressed porcelain blocks that record specific moments in the artist’s visit to Portland, Jeni Hansen Gard and Lauren Karle’s Weaving Dialogues, a tea and conversation project that invites strangers to share an intimate conversation though a guided question left behind from the previous conversation, Anna Metcalfe’s Upstream, a cup exchange project exploring the Willamette River Watershed, and Nicole Gugliotti’s 10690 Wild Flowers, honors the story of each person accessing abortion services in Oregon (10,690 individuals last year) and raises money for those who are denied access. The exhibited artists include Mary Callahan Baumstark, Henry Crissman, Hamilton Poe, Amanda Leigh Evans, Nicole Gugliotti, Holly Hanessian, Jeni Hansen Gard & Lauren Karle, Anna Metcalfe, Cheyenne Rudolph, Nicole Seisler, Forrest Sincoff Gard, Michael Strand, Juliette Walker, and Summer Zickefoose.
ABOUT SECC
The Socially Engaged Craft Collective (SECC) is an expanding network of artists who create a wide range of socially engaged art projects that are rooted in the history of craft objects and materials. The SECC aims to promote artists and to expose other artists, educators, and those who are interested to the wide spectrum of socially engaged craft. In addition to highlighting artists and their artwork, the SECC hosts an online platform (https://sociallyengagedcraftcollective.org/) that is an open resource of knowledge, news, and professional opportunities.
+ Opening Reception
Thursday, March 23, 2017, 5:00 - 9:00 pm
+Upstream, with artist Anna Metcalfe
A community conversation about the watershed, over tea and treats
Wednesday, March 22, 10:00 am
Thursday, March 23, 5:00 pm
Saturday, March 25, 1:00 pm
+10,690 WildFlowers Discussion Workshop, with artist nicole gugglioti
in collaboration with Forward Together and Momentum Alliance.
A discussion about reproductive justice and artist led workshop
Saturday, April 8, 1:00 - 3:00 pm
+When We Die: A Community Will Writing Workshop with artist Amanda Leigh Evans
A light hearted and poetic gathering around current death laws in Oregon.
Saturday, April 15, 2:00 - 4:00 pm