Current & Upcoming Exhibitions

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

NORTH & SOUTH GALLERY

DUG DEEPER” Ceramics Exhibition: Link to digital catalog

Clay has long been a narrative material. For 30,000 years, through its responsive plasticity, clay has given us insights into how people felt, thought, and lived. Today, the field of ceramics is at an exciting moment when artists are using this sensitive material to tell their own stories in more explicit ways.

Dug Deeper will showcase contemporary ceramic artists who boldly confront their identities head on. These artists specifically use clay to celebrate, investigate, and question themselves and their place in the world, generously teaching us about ourselves in the process. The Filley is honored to feature these renowned artists in this exhibition.

*Claudia Alvarez (New York, NY)

*Anabeth Rosen (Brooklyn, NY)

Jennifer Ling Datchuk (Tempe, AZ)

Nick Lenker (Philedelphia, PA)

Sam Mack (Baltimore, MD)

Syd Carpenter (Pittsburg, PA)

Raheleh Filsoofi (Nashville, TN)

Armando Minjárez Monárrez (Wichita, KS)

Diego Romero (Santa Fe, NM)

Shae Bishop (Bakersville, NC)

Malcolm Mobutu Smith, (Bloomington, IN)

Tyler Dallis, (Pratt, KS)

CURATOR: Qwist Joseph is a visiting artist and instructor at the University of Arkansas. His work investigates the insidious qualities of masculinity. Through the lens of being a hairless person, he hopes to reframe what manhood can look like for himself and others. After years working alongside his dad at the family bronze foundry, Qwist received a BFA from Colorado State University and an MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has completed residencies at the Archie Bray Foundation, the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, and the University of Denver. In 2019, Qwist received an emerging artist award from the National Council on Education in Ceramics Art. He has shown nationally and internationally, including Peters Projects in Santa Fe, The Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale in South Korea, and the Officine Saffi exhibition in Milan, Italy. He has taught at Chaffey College, the University of Redlands, the University of Denver, and Pitzer College.

We want to extend our thanks and gratitude to Karen and Robert Duncan and Trish Bergren, the director of the Clarinda Carnegie Art Museum (CCAM), who have been extraordinarily generous and instrumental in bringing this exhibition to fruition. CCAM has spent the last ten years showcasing many of the Duncan’s extensive pieces from their world-class modern and contemporary art collections. CCAM has now launched its “Art on the Fly” program with a mission to share much of this art collection with museums worldwide. Thank you for this partnership and your unique support of the arts! Thanks to Bill Roenbaugh for connecting us all!

CORRIDOR

January 27th through April 6, 2024

Corridor Exhibit: “Faces of the Dr Vernon & Emily Filley Permanent Collection”

Emily “Mimi” and Dr. Vernon W. Filley moved to Pratt in 1952 so Dr. Filley could establish his surgical practice where he worked throughout his lifetime. The Filley’s had a second home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where Mimi became personally acquainted with many artists and gallery owners. She commissioned, bought, and collected art primarily in the Southwest style encompassing a great variety of mediums, techniques, and subjects. The Filley permanent collection, gifted to the art museum, includes an extensive collection with over 100 renowned artists represented. The results of her life long mission to collect has spurred a truly unique and diverse group of artwork full of portraits, still-lifes, and landscapes done in the plein air tradition, highlighting a variety of mediums: aquatint, watercolor, lithography, oil, acrylic, sculpture, etching, gouache, drawing, giclee print, photography, and pastels. The works span multiple genres representing everything stylistically from impressionism, pre and post 1940, to realism.

The “Faces” corridor exhibit brings attention to some of the collection’s most striking portraiture, featuring work in a variety of mediums by artists who have mastered the infinite complexity of representing the human form through visual art. Included are pieces from some of the greatest portrait artists of the 20th century including – Bettina Steinke, Ramon Rice, Ramon Kelley, Dan Beck, Juan Valero Montoro, and Mimi’s favorite artist, Roger Williams.

Also featured in the exhibit is “Razor Dance Triology” a triptych ceramics piece by Sheldon Ganstrom. This piece was recently acquired by the Filley as part of the museum’s ongoing mission to collect, preserve, and exhibit art by current working artists. Sheldon Ganstrom states, “The artwork titled Razor Dance Trilogy is a culmination of everything I have learned, seen and done in my journey with form and design. Everything that I know and love within the confines of American raku or post-fire reduction techniques has come together on this piece of art.”

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

SOUTH “REIMER” GALLERY ROOM

April 27th through July 6, 2024: Don Woodard

Meet the Artist Opening Reception Saturday April 27th at 5pm. $10 non-members; FREE for Members. Click here for a Flyer with a preview of this exhibition.

This one-man show will feature painter and sculptor Don Woodard’s unique high and low relief, 3-dimensional paintings and mixed media artworks. The show will include his Pack-Horse Adventure Collection, artworks from his National Park Art Collection, and other select artworks.

Don has been creating his mixed media, relief style of artwork for over 20 years and has been showing his work at nationally juried art shows since 2012. Creating 3-dimensional artwork is Don’s passion and it allows him to blend detailed wood carving with fine painting, which is being well received by art collectors.

Woodard has been leading pack-horse trips into the Rocky Mountain Wilderness for about 40 years. He has extensive experience riding in the mountains and has seen pristine wilderness country few people have ever seen. The pictures included in his Pack Horse Adventure Collection are taken from various pack-horse trips over the years.

Many of the artworks created by Don have been inspired from events that have occurred during these rides. From scenes of wildlife, to western themes (and mis-adventures), to landscapes, they all have been experienced in person.

NORTH GALLERY ROOM

Opening April 27, 2024: Selections from the Vernon and Emily Filley Permanent Collection

CORRIDOR

April 27, 2024: Penny Bortz “Roots” Photography Exhibition

Penny Bortz has found inspiration in photographing tree roots for some time. In what she calls her “flagship” photo, she saw a rootball just hanging on the side of a rocky ledge and it spoke to her imagination. As she documented the sight with her camera, it prompted her to wonder what must have happened there – wind, rain, drought, and GROWTH.

To Bortz, this was the key – growth-those roots went down deep. She says, “May this be a challenge for all of us. Putting “ROOTS” down deep enough to grow and endure the storms of life.

This Exhibit showcases many of Bortz fascinating photographs of roots, displaying for the viewer the hidden life-sustaining systems that lie beneath.

PAST EXHIBITIONS ARCHIVE LIST

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PERMANENT COLLECTION

The Dr. Vernon and Emily “Mimi” Filley Permanent Collection