BOWDOINHAM — The Merrymeeting Arts Center in Bowdoinham is seeking artwork by ceramic artists for its summer show “Bay Clay, Bay Brick, Bay Pottery,” celebrating clay as a bay resource and medium in history and the present. The center hopes for a wide variety of ceramic works — large and small, vessels and sculptures and tiles and other items — to be exhibited. The exhibit also celebrates the newly established Merrymeeting Arts Center Pottery Project.
The summer show will run from June 20 to September 15. Ceramic art should be delivered to the Merrymeeting Arts Center, 9 Main St., Bowdoinham, on Sunday, June 14, from 2-5 p.m. or other times by prior arrangement. Stands and cases and shelves are available for display. Pieces can also be attached to the wall or suspended from beams. Artwork will need to remain in place the entire time. The Merrymeeting Arts Center divides sales with artists on a 70 percent to artist and 30 percent to the Arts Center split.
A summer workshop session taught by a local potter will use Merrymeeting Bay clay, but Merrymeeting does not expect ceramic artists exhibiting to use local clay. Two sessions of our summer Drop-In art program will use local clay as well.
Collaborating with the Bowdoinham Historical Society, the Arts Center will include artifacts and information on prehistoric and colonial pottery in the area and the more recent brickmaking industry in the exhibit. There will be talks and workshops associated with the exhibit.
The center welcomes ceramic artwork that references Merrymeeting Bay, clay banks as econiche for plants and animals, brick, prehistoric and historic pottery elements.
Ceramics artists should contact Peggy Muir at 504- 1132 for further information.
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