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Digital Debut: Emily Young March 6 - April 30, 2020
Belger Crane Yard Studios 2011 Tracy Avenue Kansas City, MO 64108 |
| | Emily Young, Consume, 2020, Porcelain, Glaze, Gold Luster, 8.5" x 5.5" x 5.5"
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| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Kansas City, MO— Belger Arts is pleased to announce Digital Debut: Emily Young, March 6 - April 30, 2020. Young's online debut goes live Friday, March 6, 2020, on the Belger Arts website.
Emily Young’s digital debut features a selection of new ceramic vases, cups, mugs and plates featuring animals depicted within layered, glazed vessels. Young’s narrative themes and influences are derived from her interests in culture, fables, theology and her personal experiences. “I’m interested in themes involving animals as metaphors for darker aspects of interpersonal relationships,” Young said about her work.
Young creates richly detailed black stoneware and white clay vessels utilizing sgraffito, a technique of carving into clay similar in quality to creating woodblock prints. Her narrative imagery portrays predatory and prey animals such as snakes, birds, wolves and rabbits both individually and in confrontation with one another. |
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About Emily: A native of Kansas City, Young received her B.F.A. in ceramics from Emporia State University. Young is currently a Belger Crane Yard Associate who works in the Crane Yard Clay Supply Store. She recently began teaching “Date Night” classes at Crane Yard Studios, and is also an instructor at Driftwood Ceramics, Kansas City.
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| | About Belger Arts: Since 2000, the Belger Arts Center has encouraged viewers to explore, question, and deepen their understanding of art and of the world around them. Drawing upon the extensive John and Maxine Belger Family Foundation collection as well as a rich variety of local, national, and international artists, the Belger Arts Center has staged over 70 large-scale exhibitions that represent some of the best in contemporary art.
In 2013, Belger Arts expanded the Foundation’s commitment to the creative process by opening Belger Crane Yard Studios, an arts complex dedicated to providing studio and exhibition space for artists. A range of programming in ceramics education, in addition to the Red Star Residency program and Crane Yard Clay ceramics supply store, has made Belger a center for contemporary art.
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For more information and high resolution images please contact the gallery at: Gallery@BelgerArts.org
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