On April 1 to May 16, the University of Wisconsin-Superior Experimental Gallery will be showcasing the work of Evaline Britton, a 2024 UWS Visual Arts alumna currently enrolled in a post-secondary program at Dartmouth.
The exhibit will showcase Brittons dedication to ceramics. While at UWS, she majored in Visual Arts and specialized in working with ceramics. Britton discussed in a KUWS podcast with Annie Dugan, Curator II in the Visual Arts Department, that she had taken ceramics classes in high school and loved working with clay.
“I liked working on the wheel and loved the feeling of clay, it was something really magical.” Britton took multiple studio classes at UWS and eventually started taking ceramics classes and later was offered a position to work as a studio assistant for Michael Maguire, professor and department chair of the Visual Arts Department.
“I’ve been drawn to ceramics for the idea that you can build it, or you can sculpt it, but its also this thing that we use every single day of our lives, like we’re eating out of cereal bowls, we’re drinking out of cups, so we’re touching it and we’re interacting with it,” said Britton.“I’ve always been enamored by that, and so ceramics has always felt like this happy medium of like, yeah you can interact with it and have this connection with it beyond it just sitting on the pedestal.”
Britton shares that she is continuing to explore different firing processes and the surface designs of her pieces by integrating images on them that will reach a wide audience. The celebration for the exhibition will be hosted on May 1 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Experimental Gallery in the Holden Fine and Applied Arts Building. The gallery is open to the public Monday through Friday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
