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Denise Pelletier - Ceramics

12/8/2009
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Room 204 Educational Sciences Building
1025 W. Johnson Street
Madison, WI 53706
5:40 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Parking is available at Grainger Hall

All events are free and open to the public.

The last Tuesday Talk Colloquium for the fall semester will feature Denise Pelletier.

Of her work, she states:

As an artist who uses a variety of materials, found objects, images, and text, I try to be aware of the history and symbolic meaning each element brings forth. The capacity of ceramic material to be transformed from mud, dust, or stone into objects of culture has long defined my commitment to the medium. Raw clay can sugggest fertile earth or contamination, or it can operate as a metaphor for changing physiological or emotional states. Porcelain is permanent, precious, pure, antiseptic. The widespread use of ceramic material throughout time and across cultures for objects associates with the care of the body, sustenance and cleanliness, and for architecture, ritual, and treasure, offers me a rich source to tap in the making of my work.

Funding provided by the Brittingham Fund.

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