Participating Artists: Roz Adams, Avriva Alter, Linda Babat, Doreen Baskin, Daniel Ferri, Lisa Harris, Linda Hoffhines, Laurel Izard, Eric L. Jensen, Kelley Kessler, James Kouretas, Alan Lerner, Ellen Manfre, Robert Martin, Guy Nicol, Leslie Jay Orenstein, Mary Seyfarth, Edwin Shelton, Annette Siffin
The Clay Studio is pleased to announce a guest group exhibition featuring the ariists of the Lill Street Studio of Chicago, September 10 through 30. There will be an opening reception Sunday September 10th from 2 to 5 PM. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday 1-6 PM, Saturdays 11 AM to 4 PM. The Show will feature some thirty works by seventeen artists.
Established in 1975, Lill Street is the largest ceramic art center in the Midwest with 4 classrooms, a gallery, shop, and over forty artists using its facilities. Located in a former horse and carriage barn of the Chicago Railroad Systems the center is conceived as "a community where the public could see the total manufacturing and artistic process" by its founder, Bruce Robbins. Remarkably similar in philosophy to the Clay Studio, Lill Street is seen as a place for artists to develop in a supportive atmosphere and as an institution seeking to educate the public about ceramics. Robbins was honored with the City of Chicago Award for Business Support for the Arts for his innovative City Arts project which provides classes for eighteen Chicago public schools.
The show is the third in a series of exchange exhibitions organized by the Clay Studio in which collectives from other parts of the country are invited to exhibit in the Studio's gallery in exchange for a reciprocal exhibition at that organization. Previous exhibitions in the series featured the Baltimore Clayworks and the Washington (State) Potters Association. The Clay Studio will be showing at Lill Street in March of 1990.
