The University of Minnesota, Morris welcomes internationally known master potter Richard Bresnahan for the first exhibit of the season in the Humanities Fine Arts Gallery. "Body of Clay, Soul of Fire: Richard Bresnahan and Art from the St. John's Pottery" will exhibit in the Gallery September 12 through October 19. The public is invited to attend the opening reception on September 12 at 7 p.m. in the Gallery followed by a public lecture by Bresnahan at 8 p.m. in HFA Recital Hall. Bresnahan will also preside over a workshop on September 12 and 13 from 9:15 a.m. to noon and 1:30-3:30 p.m. in the UMM ceramics studio, HFA 145. The artist will present a slide lecture, "The Structural Soul of Woodburning Kilns," at 4 p.m. September 13 in HFA 2.
Bresnahan returned to his alma mater at Saint John's University in Collegeville in 1979 to establish a ceramic studio and woodburning kiln that developed to include a program of visiting artists from around the world and a series of apprentices who work and learn at Saint John's Pottery.
The exhibit, created by Saint John's University and curated by Matthew Welch, curator of Japanese and Korean art at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, is touring museums and galleries in the Midwest. Twenty-four works by Richard Bresnahan are represented in the exhibit along with 28 works by Jerome Emerging Artist grant recipients and 20 works by Grotto Foundation Apprentices. The Saint John's Pottery has become a national center for ceramic art. The exhibit presents the creative vision of artists working at the studio as they have interacted with their own direction and the specific influences from the Saint John's Pottery studio. The result is a great variety in uses of clay as a medium, a wide range of subject matter from functional ceramics to figurative and abstract sculpture, and individual styles of the artists represented in the exhibit through a total of 72 works.
The exhibition tour is sponsored by Target Stores and Marshall Fields Project Imagine. Additional assistance has been provided by the Jerome Foundation of St. Paul, Minn.
Special hours for the Gallery will be in effect for this exhibit. The Gallery will be open from noon to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 1 to 5 p.m. on Saturday. Parking is available in the visitors area in the North Parking Lot.
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