Ritual Unmoored Opening Reception

Opening reception for Ritual Unmoored, an exhibit featuring works by noted Jewish ceramists Patricia Berman, Linda Bourne, Betty Feves, Kenneth Pincus, Willa Schneberg and Maria Simon. Some pieces are secular in nature, while others are informed by the celebration of the natural world and the feminine divine. Some adhere to Jewish tradition as re-envisioned forms unmoored from ritual tradition. All find final form, perfected over time, through each artist’s particular ritual: wedging, throwing, hand-building and carving, performed with practice and discipline in his or her studio space.  An album of the work can be found here.

The free exhibit continues through Sept. 15, 2017.

Ritual Unmoored: Works by Six Jewish Ceramists is presented by Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education at Portland State University’s College of the Arts Broadway Gallery, in conjunction with the National Council on Education for the Ceramics Arts conference in Portland, March 22-25, 2017.