![]() Currently, she is a professor and chair of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Jeanne Quinn studied art history and baroque music performance at Oberlin College, Ohio, and earned her MFA in ceramics from the University of Washington, Seattle. Inspired by ancient and contemporary burial structures made to honor, protect, preserve, and guide the deceased to the afterlife, each vessel is hand-built coil by coil, following the parameters of my own body.” For me it is an extension of my body, and a means to explore both its fragility in life and what endures after death. Like the body, it is constantly in flux, able to disintegrate into dust, or calcify into permanence. Of the work, Vessels, Finos states, “Clay is skin, flesh, and bone. The work for Memento Mori will be created onsite in the gallery, and will culminate in a performative element on the evening of the exhibition opening. She was awarded the American Craft Council Emerging Voices Award (Shortlist Artist) in 2019, and the Capacity-Building Grant from Rhode Island State Council on the Arts in 2021. She currently resides in Providence, Rhode Island, where she is a ceramics instructor at The Steel Yard and The Artists’ Exchange (Cranston, RI). ![]() Marisa Finos earned a BFA in ceramics from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. Although the concept of death is unpleasant, facing the inevitability of death has numerous benefits: to remind of the temporal nature of our human existence, to inspire moral resistance to earthly pleasures, and to appreciate vitality of life and fleeting beauty, while acknowledging the permanence of death.Ĭlay and ceramic art have inherent metaphors of life cycles in the material stages of clay from its formation from the earth and once living organic matter.Īrtists in this exhibition include: Marisa Finos, Jeanne Quinn, Arun Sharma, and Dirk Staschke. Throughout the ages, contemplating death has been a major theme in the arts. The Latin phrase, memento mori, translates to, “Remember that you must die.” The purpose of this exhibition is to explore how artists have responded to themes of death in the wake of a modern global pandemic.
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