Gallery 308 Living Arts Series Presents Kimberly Anderson

Ceramist Kimberly Anderson will present a free slide presentation featuring her work for Gallery 308's Living Arts program, at 7 p.m. on Thursday March 27. Anderson will bring some pieces of new work, or work-in-progress work to show and discuss.

Anderson's work—which is mainly 3-D ceramic pieces (vessels) in a figural style—will be shown in the Founders Gallery in May with "The 4 Femmes" exhibit. She is the most recent artist to offer an educational program in conjunction with work being shown at the Gallery. Living Arts is a series offered at Gallery 308 each month.

Anderson has been an Instructor of Ceramics at the Indianapolis Center for the Arts since 1995. She teaches all levels of ceramic classes at the ICA and is an adjunct faculty member at Ball State in ceramics and life drawing.

Her sculpture and figurative vessels reference archeological excavations, feminine roles, cycles of renewal and decay—an ongoing investigation about woman as vessel. Anderson performs all aspects of the creative process in her work; all the functional work is hand thrown and altered on the wheel while the clay is wet. Her work is unique and original; no molds of mass production are used. She personally fires all of her work.

The Evanston, Illinois native has a 1990 BA from California University (California, Pennsylvania), a BFA from West Virginia University (1992), and an MFA from Wichita State University (1994). All three degrees had an emphasis in ceramics.