Event details
- When: Friday, January 22, 2027 at 6:30 PM
- Where: Art & History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Ave
- Category: Event
The opening reception celebrates Between Starshine and Clay, the newest exhibition at the Art & History Museums of Maitland, featuring art by Osa Atoe and the Kaabo Clay Collective. The reception 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 gratefully accepted with an order or at the event to support the museum's free community programs.
The exhibition explores the enduring legacy of African and African American ceramics through contemporary studio practice, rooted in themes of diaspora, memory, land and shared cultural tradition. Atoe's functional vessels and sculptural forms are shaped from locally sourced Florida clay, drawing on the state's landscape and on traditional Nigerian water vessel forms. They are objects made for communal use, to be poured from and passed around a table.
The Kaabo Clay Collective portion of the exhibition brings together elder Black ceramic artists whose contributions have shaped the field, including Florida-based ceramicists Yvonne Tucker and David Mack, alongside examples of Afro-Native colonoware that trace the intertwined ceramic histories of African and Indigenous peoples in the American South.
Event listing published by Art & History Museums Maitland:
https://artandhistory.org/event/opening-reception-between-starshine-and-clay-2/
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