Events

For thousands of years, music and craftsmanship have been intertwined, serving as a powerful form of communication and self-expression. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll embark on a journey through time, exploring the ancient musical traditions of Central and South America while creating your own unique clay instrument. Reconnect with nature through the tactile experience of working with clay. Awaken your creativity by shaping and designing a traditional rattle. Experience the joy of sound and music-making, no matter your skill level. Guided by the expert instruction of teaching artist, Melissa Hyatt Foss, you’ll learn about the history and significance of these ancient instruments and craft your own functional clay rattle—a piece of history you can play! All materials, supplies, and firing are included, and no prior experience with clay, instruments, or music is necessary. Step into the past, create in the present, and leave with a one-of-a-kind musical treasure.

* This exhibition runs Sep. 22–Nov. 1, with a public reception on Sat., Sep. 27. *

To the Core is a dual exhibition featuring former Artomatic president and installation artist Veronica Szalus, alongside Colombian-born MICA graduate and figurative painter Lillian Jacobson. This exhibition explores the concept of being “to the core,” whether through personal identity, storytelling, or individual beliefs. To Jacobson, it means to explore a feeling of belonging within a culture and growing up amongst an ethnicity vastly different from her own. Additionally, the show examines our interconnected relationship to our communities through consumption and conservation, sparking conversations about the far-ranging benefits of repurposing materials, both individually and collectively, to address local and global environmental challenges.

Ancient Voices, Modern Tools is based on myths, symbols, and motifs of the indigenous people of the Americas translated into a modern context via traditional and computerized painting techniques. Even though the native tribes were the first to encounter the Europeans, their artwork, symbols, myths, and traditions are some of the least known. The artist’s work is a personal, visual translation of the surviving oral traditions and symbols.