Susan Metrican is an artist living in Fairfield, Iowa, via Boston, NYC, Toronto, and Bangkok. She makes cross-disciplinary work rooted in painting. Metrican received an MFA from MassArt, and BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. She has attended residencies at Skowhegan, Shandaken: Storm King, and Interlude. In 2026, she received the Iowa Artist Fellowship. Metrican’s work has been included in solo and group exhibitions nationally, with a solo show at Specialist Gallery, Seattle, in November...

The work of Giorgos Kontis focuses on abstract painting, on its relationship to a sense of a minimum and to a language that is both latent and elliptical. The function of the painted image and the relationship it may build with the viewer become central in his practice. Giorgos studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts, at the Academy of Visual Arts (AdBK) in Munich and at the University of Arts (UdK) in Berlin. He holds an MFA from the St.Joost Academy in Breda, the Netherlands, and a PhD in...

Noted historian and critic Jenni Sorkin will present a lecture in VAB E 125 at 6pm on October 27th, on her recent work in residence at The Archie Bray Foundation, as well as on current projects. Sorkin is Chair and Professor of Art History at The University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of Live Form: Women, Ceramics, and Community, Art and California, and is on the editorial board of The Journal of Modern Craft. Her writing has appeared in Art Forum, Art Journal, Frieze, among...

Join Ceramics in welcoming Handwork Visiting Artists, Bandana Pottery: Naomi Dalglish and Michael Hunt! We have many exciting events planned for the week of November 2-6th, and we hope you’ll join us as you can.

Artist Demonstrations, W221 VAB
Monday, November 2nd 8:45am-5pm
Tuesday, November 3rd 8:45-noon
Friday, November 6th 9:30am-1pm

Artist talk, Tuesday, November 3rd, 4:30-5:30pm E125 VAB

Kiln Talk, Thursday, November 5th, 1:30-3pm W221 VAB

Artist Round Table Discussion: How to be a Self...

Join Ceramics in welcoming Handwork Visiting Artists, Bandana Pottery: Naomi Dalglish and Michael Hunt! We have many exciting events planned for the week of November 2-6th, and we hope you’ll join us as you can.

Artist Demonstrations, W221 VAB
Monday, November 2nd 8:45am-5pm
Tuesday, November 3rd 8:45-noon
Friday, November 6th 9:30am-1pm

Artist talk, Tuesday, November 3rd, 4:30-5:30pm E125 VAB

Kiln Talk, Thursday, November 5th, 1:30-3pm W221 VAB

Artist Round Table Discussion: How to be a Self...

Join Ceramics in welcoming Handwork Visiting Artists, Bandana Pottery: Naomi Dalglish and Michael Hunt! We have many exciting events planned for the week of November 2-6th, and we hope you’ll join us as you can.

Artist Demonstrations, W221 VAB
Monday, November 2nd 8:45am-5pm
Tuesday, November 3rd 8:45-noon
Friday, November 6th 9:30am-1pm

Artist talk, Tuesday, November 3rd, 4:30-5:30pm E125 VAB

Kiln Talk, Thursday, November 5th, 1:30-3pm W221 VAB

Artist Round Table Discussion: How to be a Self...

Join Ceramics in welcoming Handwork Visiting Artists, Bandana Pottery: Naomi Dalglish and Michael Hunt! We have many exciting events planned for the week of November 2-6th, and we hope you’ll join us as you can.

Artist Demonstrations, W221 VAB
Monday, November 2nd 8:45am-5pm
Tuesday, November 3rd 8:45-noon
Friday, November 6th 9:30am-1pm

Artist talk, Tuesday, November 3rd, 4:30-5:30pm E125 VAB

Kiln Talk, Thursday, November 5th, 1:30-3pm W221 VAB

Artist Round Table Discussion: How to be a Self...

Julia Galloway is a Potter and Professor of Ceramics at The University of Montana where she has served as Department Chair. Julia’s work is in the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum, the Long Beach Art Museum, The Ceramics Research Center at Arizona State University, and the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, among others. For several years Julia has been working on a series of 1100 burial urns, one for each North American endangered, threatened, extinct, or recovered species listed under the...

Join Ceramics in welcoming Handwork Visiting Artists, Bandana Pottery: Naomi Dalglish and Michael Hunt! We have many exciting events planned for the week of November 2-6th, and we hope you’ll join us as you can.

Artist Demonstrations, W221 VAB
Monday, November 2nd 8:45am-5pm
Tuesday, November 3rd 8:45-noon
Friday, November 6th 9:30am-1pm

Artist talk, Tuesday, November 3rd, 4:30-5:30pm E125 VAB

Kiln Talk, Thursday, November 5th, 1:30-3pm W221 VAB

Artist Round Table Discussion: How to be a Self...

Burying Tutankhamun: Ritual, Politics, and the Making of a King
Lecture by Nicholas Brown, University of Iowa

Abstract:

This talk explores the state funeral in ancient Egypt through the burial of Tutankhamun, one of the few nearly intact royal burials ever discovered. Dr. Brown will analyze the funerary procession scene from Tutankhamun’s tomb, examining how the royal funeral functioned not only as a religious ritual but also as a carefully constructed expression of politics, power, and succession...