In collaboration with Scripps Presents, the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery is excited to celebrate the 79th Scripps College Ceramic Annual.

Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander, Robert M. and Ruth L. Halperin Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and co-director of the Asian American Art Initiative at Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center, will speak about the embodied possibilities of clay and its simultaneously overt and elusive relationship to race. A conversation between Alexander and Scripps College Lincoln Visiting Artist in Ceramics Jasmine Baetz will follow.

Audience members will then be invited to view the 79th Ceramic Annual, The Idea of Feeling Brown, during a reception at the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery. The reception will feature Lynne Thompson, former Poet Laureate of Los Angeles and Chair of the Board of Trustees at Scripps College, reading new work from her forthcoming book Blue on a Blue Palette: Poems.

The lecture, conversation, and reception are free and open to the public. Reserve your space today!