Event details
- When: Friday, January 22, 2027 at 6:30 PM
- Where: Art & History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Ave
- Category: Event
The Art & History Museums of Maitland hosts an opening reception for Between Starshine and Clay, its newest exhibition. The celebration includes live music, a food truck and a cash bar on the museum's National Historic Landmark campus. Admission is free, and donations of any size are accepted with orders or at the event to support free community programs.
The exhibition, subtitled Ceramics Across Diaspora, Land, and Lineage, explores the legacy of African and African American ceramics through contemporary studio practice, organized around themes of diaspora, memory, land and shared cultural tradition. It brings together work by artist Osa Atoe and the Kaabo Clay Collective, spanning continents, centuries and communities.
Atoe's functional vessels and sculptural forms are made from locally sourced Florida clay and draw on both the state's landscape and traditional Nigerian water vessel forms, made for communal use. The Kaabo Clay Collective section gathers elder Black ceramic artists, including Florida-based ceramicists Yvonne Tucker and David Mack, along with examples of Afro-Native colonoware that trace intertwined African and Indigenous ceramic histories in the American South.
Event listing published by Art & History Museums Maitland:
https://artandhistory.org/event/opening-reception-between-starshine-and-clay/
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