2022 Cultivating Community | 2022 NCECA Emerging Artists Presentations • Claystation

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Announcing 2022 Cultivating Community! | https://nceca.community/2022-cultivating-community
2022 NCECA Emerging Artists: Claudia Alvarez, Jasmine Baetz, Jihye Han, Ellen Kleckner, Chanakarn Semachai (Punch), and Carly Slade.

Claudia Alvarez
Claudia Alvarez is based in New York City. She earned an MFA from California College of Arts and BA from University of California, Davis. She currently teaches at New York University and Pratt Institute. Grants include Art Matters, McKnight Foundation, Bemis X, Northern Clay Center, SOMA Mexico City.

Jasmine Baetz
Jasmine Baetz is an artist, activist, and educator who works with clay. While working towards her MFA at CU Boulder she led the project to make a commemorative, community-created sculpture for Los Seis de Boulder, the six Chicanx student activists who were killed in 1974.

Jihye Han
Jihye Han earned a BFA in sculpture and ceramics from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and an MFA in ceramics from the University of North Texas. She was the recipient of the NCECA Graduate Student Fellowship and the award winner for ClayHouston’s Texas BIPOC Ceramic Emerging Artist in 2021.

Ellen Kleckner
Ellen Kleckner is an artist and educator based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Her artistic practice weaves together community engagement, material investigation, and collaboration. Ellen studied Ceramics at the Appalachian Center for Craft (BFA) and Ohio University (MFA). Ellen is the Executive Director of the Iowa Ceramics Center and Glass Studio, a non-profit community art center.

Chanakarn Semachai
Chanakarn Semachai (Punch) was born and raised in Bangkok, Thailand. She graduated in 2012 with her BA in Thailand and earned an MFA degree from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in 2019. She focuses on issues of identity and multiculturalism in her artwork. Currently, she teaches ceramics at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.

Carly Slade
Carly Slade grew up in “Big Sky” Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Her work is influenced by her blue-collar roots, and plagued by a concern for the precarious nature of the working class. Using a mix of materials, Slade creates dioramas of real places in an unreal perspective.

Join us for vibrant and powerful video presentations by POT Los Angeles, Dolores Huerta, Sanjit Sethi, Virgil Ortiz, and the 2022 NCECA Emerging Artists: Claudia Alvarez, Jasmine Baetz, Jihye Han, Ellen Kleckner, Chanakarn Semachai (Punch), and Carly Slade.

Mark your calendars for Cultivating Community from September 25 to October 2, 2022. Follow us on social media @WatchNCECA as we share and release video presentations here on Youtube Channel.

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