Push Play: The 2012 NCECA Invitational
January 19 - June 17, 2012
Want to play? In conjunction with the 46th Annual Conference of NCECA (The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts), taking place in Seattle March 26 - 31, 2012, Bellevue Arts Museum is pleased to present Push Play: The 2012 NCECA Invitational.
Both in life and in art, play is not all fun and games. It is also serious business, teaching essential life skills and developing healthy, well-balanced lives through the pleasure of participation. Not relegated to the world of children, it continues to cultivate enlightenment and enjoyment through informed, creative activity into maturity. Imaginative, engaging and at times challenging, Push Play showcases the work of more than 35 important and emerging ceramic artists from across the globe, exploring how the act of play effortlessly expands human potential while also entertaining us.
Sam Scott
Push Play, 2011
Kai Porcelain. Cone 12 gas firing.
13 x 13 x 1.5 in.
Adrian Arleo
Swan, Awareness Series, 2011
Low fire clay, glaze, hand build
Photo: Chris Autio
Mika Negishi Laidlaw
Correlation 5, 2011
Cone 5 oxidation fired porcelain and cone 04 oxidation fired earthenware
Yoko Sekino-Bove
Hanafuda Sake Drinking Game Set, 2011
Mid-range oxidation firing with gold luster. Porcelain.
Christina West
What a Doll: The Human Object as Toy, 2010
Slip-cast and glazed ceramic cone 6 oxidation
Photo: Colin Conces
Christina West
What a Doll: The Human Object as Toy, 2010
Slip-cast and glazed ceramic cone 6 oxidation
Irina Zaytceva
Ghost of Lotus Shoes, 2009
Hand build porcelain vase hand painting over glaze 24 karat gold luster
Cristina Cordova
Dulce
Earthenware cone 04 electric
25 x 36 x 10 in.
Megumi Naitoh
June 12, 2009, 2009
Screen printed ceramic earthenware
30.75 x 20 x 2.25 in.
Anne Drew Potter
The Captains Congress, 2011
Stoneware, wood, acrylic, newsprint
Margaret Keelan
Hopscotch
29 x 16 x 23 in.
Photo: Scott McCue
Beth Cavener Stichter
In Bocca al Lupo
Stoneware
Sam Scott
Push Play, 2011
Kai Porcelain. Cone 12 gas firing.
13 x 13 x 1.5 in.
Discretion advised. This exhibition contains mature content, including nudity and sexual references.
Organized by The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts in partnership with Bellevue Arts Museum, co-curated by Linda Ganstrom and Stefano Catalani. Made possible through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts.