Coming Soon
May 5 - June 1
Zoe Frances Craig
Within my printmaking work, I aim to explore themes that might help myself and the viewer understand how we interpret, experience, and interact with the natural world around us, and how we tell stories to make sense of our worlds. I am interested not only in how humans impact the world around us (often to devastating effect), but also how the natural world impacts humans, our history, our cultures, and our experiences. While we often perceive ourselves to be separate from the natural world, we are in fact constantly living in relationship to it.
Thursday, May 7
5-7pm
Zoe Craig and potter Maureen Karlstad will be demonstrating techniques that they use to decorate their pottery, including painting with underglazes and the use of wax resist and tape to create unglazed designs.
Zoe Craig
Potter and Printmaker
Zoe Craig is a printmaker and potter living and working in rural southwest Wisconsin. Her art explores the boundaries that exist, or seem to exist, between ourselves and the world outside us. With her work, she examines the ways that humans personally and culturally interact with places and landscapes. Within this, her art explores the many relationships between humans and their environments and the ways that we see, interpret, and tell stories about our worlds. Themes that are common in her work include: longing, boundaries, relationships, ecology, ownership, light, the making of things and storytelling.
Zoe makes handthrown pottery that is design focused, fun and functional. She plays with color and surface design, making her own glazes and using simple brush strokes and wax resist to create shapes and lines. As someone who feels a relationship to the things she owns, she thinks that the items we choose to live with are important, and that the items we use each day gain meaning through their use, holding an importance in the rhythms of our daily lives. The feel, the texture, the weight, the aesthetic of a mug or bowl can help us to create a space and lifestyle that is our own. She has apprenticed with potter Maureen Karlstad for the last two years, learning how to run a clay studio and teaching beginning pottery classes.