Collaborations: A Ceramic Collage

Collaborations: A Ceramic Collage is a Fired Works event that is taking place at Macon Arts. The Macon Arts gallery has featured monthly shows, and the show closest to Fired Works always centers on ceramic work.

This year, Diane Mead curates the show, and came up with the concept of ceramic collaborations. She loosely based this idea on the Surrealists' game of "The Exquisite Corpse"; a game of folded paper played by several people, who compose a drawing without anyone seeing the preceding collaboration or collaborations. Obviously, such an "Exquisite Corpse" can hardly be achieved with ceramics! However, each artist mailed or traded pieces after the initial firing, and their corresponding partner finished each piece in their personal style.

I had the joy of meeting one participating artist last Friday; Ken Horvath dropped off his collaborative work with Fired Works artist Eileen Braun. He has yet to see Eileen's applications on his forms, but looks forward to seeing them on First Friday.

Participating artists in "Collaborations" include Heather Davis, Diane Mead, John Britt, Susan Feagin, Ken Horvath, Eileen Braun, Joy Raynor, Meg Campbell, and Roger Jamison. Please join us for the first of several Fired Works events during the opening reception for "Collaborations". First Friday, April 3rd, from 5 to 8 p.m. Light refreshments and wine will be served.

Call Macon Arts for more information: (478) 743-6940



While you're at it, check out John Britt's Blog about the up-coming Collaborations show.