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NCECA Exhibits: Kyle and Kelly Phelps: Working Class Narratives

February 16, 2018

The ceramic arts, along with most visual arts, tend to be a solitary pursuit – one artist giving form to a personal creative idea. Collaboration is not the hallmark of potters. For artists Kelly and Kyle Phelps, twin brothers whose lifelong alliance has carried them along parallel paths, working independently makes no sense. These Ohio artists will bring their representations of industrial workers to Standard Ceramic’s production facility-turned art gallery for the NCECA Exhibits.

NCECA Exhibits: A Longtime Friendship: Jack Troy and Kevin Crowe

February 13, 2018

Though potters Jack Troy and Kevin Crowe are based 275 miles apart, they share a long history of collaboration and friendship. Visitors to Standard Ceramic’s NCECA Exhibits will see a sampling of their work in a space that shares the closeness of this alliance. In a small office space at ClayPlace@Standard, converted to a mini-gallery, Troy and Crowe will tuck a selection of their smaller pieces into an intimate setting that enhances the personal, not only of each artist’s relationship with his work, but of their relationship to each other.

NCECA Exhibits: The Nevica Project and Cerbera Gallery Present “10”

February 05, 2018

Two curators from different mid-west cities will collaborate together on an exciting group exhibition of noted ceramic artists during NCECA. Jayson Lawfer of Chicago’s The Nevica Project and Philipp Eirich of Kansas City’s Cerbera Gallery have put together a show of works by living and deceased artists that they consider notable and of interest to the NCECA audience and worthy of the designation, “10″.