With an Opening Reception: Thursday, January 21st, 5 – 7pm
The Rowe Arts Main Gallery
Featuring the work of Janet Williams, Asst Prof of Ceramics at UNC-Charlotte, Bookworks uses connections between ceramics and ‘the book’ to explore ideas of memory, heritage and loss. Books, rapidly being superseded by developing digital technologies are here relegated to the status of matter. Retrieved from the ‘paper junkyard’, the books are porcelain coated and kiln fired, leaving text impressions and coloration in the clay – and sometimes, carbonized residues of the process. Like fossils, these artifacts can reveal information encoded within them. I am dealing with the materiality of books but also making reference to their power as objects – sacred and secular – and as receptacles for knowledge and memory.
Contact Person Name: Janet Williams
Contact Person Phone: 704 687 0208
Contact Person Email: jwill416@uncc.edu
Cost (if applicable): FREE and open to the public
Contact Person Name: Janet Williams
Contact Person Phone: 704 687 0208
Contact Person Email: jwill416@uncc.edu
Cost (if applicable): FREE and open to the public
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