The Wolfsonian-FIU Presents Material And Meaning: Earthenware, Stoneware, And Porcelain From The Wolfsonian-FIU Collection
The Wolfsonian-FIU presents a new exhibit, Material and Meaning: Earthenware, Stoneware, and Porcelain from The Wolfsonian-FIU Collection, at The Frost Art Museum at Florida International University. The exhibit features over 60 pieces of ceramics and design drawings that explore the varied art and potential of different types of clay. The exhibit is on view through January 13th.
- Miami, FL (1888PressRelease) October 22, 2012 - An Exhibition in The Wolfsonian Teaching Gallery at FIU's Frost Art Museum October 17, 2012 through January 13, 2013.
The Wolfsonian-Florida International University presents Material and Meaning: Earthenware, Stoneware, and Porcelain from The Wolfsonian-FIU Collection at The Frost Art Museum at Florida International University. Material and Meaning explores the expressive and functional potential of different kinds of clay, and the varied design and production processes employed to make finished ceramics. The exhibition presents roughly sixty ceramic pieces, as well as more than two dozen design drawings. The array of objects exemplifies how designers and artists, from the late nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century, adapted the inherent material qualities of earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain to achieve aesthetic, practical, and ideological goals.
"I wanted the show to be representative of the diversity of the collection," said Tori Arpad-Cotta, associate professor of Art and Art History at FIU, who guest curated the exhibition. "I wanted to give a sense of range-different types of clay, a range of dates, a range of the kinds of aesthetics that were important throughout the period, a range of countries, and to show interesting connections between objects. Material and Meaning was created to show a remarkable variety of objects created from a single substance."
Clay is an extremely versatile medium that can be held in the hands, used to decorate homes, and be incorporated into the built environment. Ceramics are objects of both utility and ornament, articles of industry and commerce, and even vehicles of political persuasion. The exhibit explores the unique versatility of this medium from luxury tea services to propaganda porcelains, and from ornate vases to unadorned, salt-glazed stoneware.
Material and Meaning is the sixth exhibition in The Wolfsonian Teaching Gallery at The Frost Art Museum. Funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and made possible thanks to the Frost Art Museum's generous offer of the use of one of its galleries, The Wolfsonian Teaching Gallery is intended to bring the museum's collection onto FIU's Modesto Maidique Campus, where it is easily accessible to the entire FIU academic community.
Material and Meaning is on view through January 13th 2013. Contact maris ( @ ) thewolf dot fiu dot edu for more information dot
About The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University
The Frost Art Museum opened its current 46,000-square-foot state of the art building in November 2008. Over 125,000 people have visited the museum in its new building since its opening. Admission to the museum is always free. The Frost is an American Association of Museums accredited museum and Smithsonian affiliate and is located at 10975 SW 17thStreet, across from the Blue garage and adjacent to the Wertheim Performing Arts Center on the Modesto A. Maidique Campus. Hours of operation are Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. and Sunday noon- 5 p.m. Closed on Mondays and most legal holidays. For more information, please visit http://thefrost.fiu.edu or call 305-348-2890. Follow on Twitter (http://twitter.com/frostartmuseum) and Like on Facebook (http://facebook.com/frostartmuseum).
About The Wolfsonian-Florida International University
The Wolfsonian is a museum, library, and research center that uses objects to illustrate the persuasive power of art and design, to explore what it means to be modern, and to tell the story of social, historical, and technological changes that have transformed our world. The collections comprise approximately 120,000 objects from the period of 1885 to 1945-the height of the Industrial Revolution to the end of the Second World War-in a variety of media including furniture; industrial-design objects; works in glass, ceramics, and metal; rare books; periodicals; ephemera; works on paper; paintings; textiles; and medals.
The Wolfsonian is located at 1001 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, FL. Admission is $7 for adults; $5 for seniors, students, and children age 6 -12; and free for Wolfsonian members, State University System of Florida staff and students with ID, and children under six. The museum is open daily from noon-6 p.m.; Friday from noon-9 p.m.; and closed on Wednesday. Contact us at 305.531.1001 or visit us online at www.wolfsonian.org for further information.
The Wolfsonian-FIU is proud to receive ongoing support from The Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, The Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; The State of Florida; Department of Cultural Affairs; The Florida Council on Arts and Culture; The City of Miami Beach Cultural Affairs Program Cultural Arts Council; The Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Foundation; United Airlines, the Official Airline of The Wolfsonian-FIU; Bacardi, USA., Inc.; and The Wolfsonian Visionaries.
About FIU
Florida International University is one of the twenty-five largest universities in the nation, with more than forty-two thousand students. Nearly one hundred thirty thousand FIU alumni live and work in South Florida. Its colleges and schools offer more than two hundred bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs in fields such as engineering, international relations, and law. As one of South Florida's anchor institutions, FIU is worlds ahead in its local and global engagement, finding solutions to the most challenging problems of our time. FIU emphasizes research as a major component of its mission. The opening of the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine in August 2009 has enhanced the university's ability to create lasting positive change in our community. For more information about FIU, visit www.fiu.edu.
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