Meet Artist Momoko Usami on Sept. 6 + New Team Member Emily Potter

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Meet Momoko Usami on

First Friday, September 6

Left: Momoko Usami. Image courtesy of the artist. Right: Momoko Usami, Medicine Box (Sheep), 2024. Cone 6 Porcelain, mirror bend, and copper. Photo by Belger Arts.

First Friday Reception - September 6, 2024, 6 - 8 pm;

Artist remarks at 6:30 pm

Belger Crane Yard Gallery, 2011 Tracy Ave., KCMO

Don't miss the opportunity to hear from the artist and explore her creations up close!

Many of Momoko Usami’s ceramic artworks are interactive, inviting the viewer to scroll, slide, or open them to reveal a new aspect or perspective. She states, “My role as an artist is to enrich a person’s everyday life by being able to touch and feel my work, and by discovering fresh views through it.”

Usami received a BFA and MFA from Kyoto City University of Art in Kyoto, Japan. She currently works out of her personal studio in rural Missouri near Kansas City where she teaches small art classes for the community.

Usami’s work is available for purchase online and at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery through September 28, 2024.

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Introducing Emily Potter

Belger Arts is pleased to welcome Belger Glass Annex assistant glassblower Emily Clair Potter!

Potter started working with glass in 2018 and has received accolades including a research grant through Bowling Green State University, her alma mater in which she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts.

Growing up surrounded by the cornfields of Northwest Ohio has given Potter an avid love for vegetables and other plant specimens. The repetition of organic shapes has influenced her investigation of intimate connections between the shared cellular architecture of beings.

Catch Emily Potter in action at our next First Friday glassblowing demonstration on September 6 from 6 to 8 pm at the Belger Glass Annex (1219 E. 19th St., KCMO).

Welcome aboard, Emily!

Time is running out to take advantage of our August special offer. Enjoy 20% off the purchase of mugs made by five previous Mug of the Month artists (work shown here left to right):

Paul Maloney
Huey Lee
Artist collaborative: Alexander Krohn, Paul Mallory, and Kat Ramsey
Dehmie Dehmlow
Kacey Ziegler

Mugs make great gifts. Treat yourself to a handmade mug or get an early start on your holiday shopping.

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Subject: Meet Artist Momoko Usami on Sept. 6 + New Team Member Emily Potter