The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

Join us for a discussion of Raven Halfmoon’s work through questions of material, scale, and collaboration in context with other contemporary makers of large-scale ceramics, such as Cannupa Hanska Luger, Simone Leigh, Theaster Gates and Rose B. Simpson led by Laura Phipps, Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Given historical traditions of ceramics as somehow outside the art world, what does it mean to choose clay as a contemporary artist? And clay at such a large scale? Phipps will look at how such choices necessitate different forms of trust and collaboration, and how community is implicit in the process.