Kansas City Art Institute Ceramics Department

02/23/2023

We're hoping for a good turnout at the school's NCECA reunion this year. It's not just for Ceramics grads. Tell your friends and RSVP to the Alumni Office if you can make it! It's always nice to catch up with everyone! Thanks, KCAI Clay

01/06/2021

The new international airport in Kansas City is underway and a call has gone out to artists for proposals for public art. This will be the largest public art project in KC history and a portion is designated for Ceramics. There will be an information session today and another on the 9th. Proposals are due in early February. For more info visit: https://www.buildkci.com/Call-For-Artists/?fbclid=IwAR0617rrZvNDm2meS5muYKnre12uTspMUxamIY880XZjbowYSov081jbtzk

Register for Artist Information Sessions – January 6 and 9, 2021 Download full RFQ project specifications Apply to Public Art Calls at KCI by location: Check-In Hall: Large-scale ceramics (DUE Feb.13, 2021) Connector: experiential art installation (DUE Feb.13, 2021) Parking Garage Stairwells: inst...

09/17/2020

We're having a great week with virtual visiting artist Mac McCusker! Mac presented demos and a lecture for KCAI Ceramics majors earlier this week and tomorrow will conduct virtual studio visits with juniors and seniors. Thanks for sharing your talent and passion, Mac!

08/24/2020

During the KCAI Virtual Commencement yesterday it was announced that Ceramics graduate Debbie Magyar took Best In Show at this year's BFA Exhibition! Here's a detail of Debbie's beautiful tile installation "Nostos Algos Redux". The exhibition opens to the public on August 28 at the H&R Block Artspace. We will post more images from the exhibition throughout the week. Congrats to ALL the 2020 graduates at KCAI and elsewhere.

05/27/2020

Erin Coughenmower is one of five KCAI Ceramics students featured in "Head Outside", at Powell Gardens til June 21.

05/22/2020

Our first ever virtual End-of-Semester exhibition is now LIVE! Check it out!

In March of this year, the COVID-19 virus smashed a bad-hop grounder and the Ceramics department students fielded it cleanly. Welcome to Fielding, the 2020 spring exhibition.

05/15/2020

Congrats to all, digitally present or not! The Class of 2020 will hold a special place in my heart.

What do you do when the graduation ceremony is on hold til the end of the summer? Some of the KCAI Clay Seniors gathered together (digitally) for an impromptu graduation picture. For the first time anyone can remember the photographer had to yell "OK, look at the camera, except those of you driving!" Go Seniors Go!

05/15/2020

What do you do when the graduation ceremony is on hold til the end of the summer? Some of the KCAI Clay Seniors gathered together (digitally) for an impromptu graduation picture. For the first time anyone can remember the photographer had to yell "OK, look at the camera, except those of you driving!" Go Seniors Go!

05/04/2020

The digital catalog for this year's NCECA National Student Juried Exhibition is out and the winners were announced. Congrats to SIX KCAI students who made it into the show and to Nicole McLaughlin (1st place) and Jinblossom Plati (2nd) for taking top honors in the Undergraduate division. Also in the exhibition are Sydney Clark, Elinore Noyes, Jada Patterson, and Hunter Saxon. All are from the Class of 2020!

The NCECA Juried Student Exhibition each year provides an opportunity for students across North America to show some of their best work. It is a chance for each student’s work to be seen by the largest, most diverse and concentrated group of ceramic makers, thinkers, and exhibitors. It is an oppor...

04/17/2020

Thanks to Margeaux Claude, KCAI Ceramics Class of 2013, for talking to all the students via the internet this morning. Margeaux spoke about her adventures in the Design World after graduation and her most recent project, studying the intersection of design, manufacturing and the artist in Hungary on a Fulbright Scholarship. Other visiting artists and critics recently included KCAI Clay grads Andrew Castaneda, Colin Yoon and Chase Travaille, curator Raechell Smith, gallerist and artist Marcus Cain, and KCAI Faculty member Eleanor Lim-Midyett. We're moving along online and we appreciate all the generous help from everyone!

03/21/2020

Congratulations to Jeannie Hulen, KCAI Ceramics Class of 1996!

Jeannie Hulen is the associate dean and professor of ceramics at J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas at Fayettevi...

03/17/2020

Nice interview with Roberto Lugo (KCAI Clay, Class of 2012) in Interview magazine! Perfect.

Seth Rogen's new favorite potter walks us through his massive vessels, which insist on facilitating improbable cross-cultural conversations.