Artist Talks
Rachel Rader | Juliane Shibata | ariana Stein
Thursday, May 16, 5:30pm
Join us at Starworks on Thursday, May 16, 5:30pm for Artist Talks from Starworks Visiting Artists, including Glass Resident Rachel Rader, Ceramics Resident Juliane Shibata, and Ceramics Intern Ariana Stein. Each artist will present slides and discuss some of their processes and influences involved in making their work. Stick around after the talks to meet the artists and ask questions.
Artist Talks are free and open to the public of all ages.
Artist Talks will be followed by the Open Mic Night in the Starworks Cafe & Taproom, starting at 7pm.
Starworks is a family friendly and dog friendly environment. Enjoy refreshments from the Starworks Cafe & Taproom before, during and after the event. The Cafe is open until 9pm and has a large selection of hot and cold beverages, locally crafted wines, beer, pastries, locally prepared sandwiches, desserts and other snacks.
Rachel Rader
Resident Artist - Starworks Glass
Rachel lives in Richmond, VA where she maintains a full time art practice. She dabbles in a myriad of materials and forms of expression as a multidisciplinary artist. In her current project, Ancient Truth Investigators she combines her love of performance with her devotion to material exploration. She holds a BFA in Material Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University. Rachel has taught at numerous institutions including Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle, WA, Penland School of Crafts in Penland, NC, and UrbanGlass in Brooklyn, NY. She was a 2017 resident artist at the Museum of Arts and Design in NYC as a part of the Artists’ Studios Program, and the recipient of a 2016 CGCA Flexible Fellowship at Wheaton Arts in Millville, NJ. She has shown her artwork in various galleries and museums including The Brooklyn Metal Works Gallery, The Bullseye Gallery New York, Quirk Gallery in Richmond, VA, The Racine Art Museum in Racine, WI, The Society of Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, PA, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Norfolk, VA and The Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, OR.
rachelrader.com
Juliane Shibata
Resident Artist - Starworks Ceramics
Juliane Shibata is a ceramic artist and educator based in Northfield, MN. Her work is informed by wabi-sabi’s aesthetics of imperfection and impermanence, well as the Pattern & Decoration movement. Juliane draws viewers to her work through the rhythm of repeated forms that visually energize the space around them. Her most recent outdoor installations aim to consider the nature of our own existence by redirecting our awareness of and engagement with the constructed environment, the spaces we occupy, and the traces of human presence in and around the architectural structures we encounter.
Juliane received her MFA from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She was awarded a 2021 McKnight Artist Fellowship for Ceramic Artists and Artist Initiative grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board in 2014, 2018, and 2020. Juliane received the Tile Heritage Prix Primo award at the 23rd Annual San Angelo National Ceramic Competition and first place in the 62nd Arrowhead Regional Biennial. She has been a resident artist at Art Omi in Ghent, NY, The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China, and the College of Biological Sciences Conservatory at the University of Minnesota. Her installations have been commissioned by, among others, Abbott Northwestern Hospital and the Four Seasons Hotel Minneapolis. Works of hers belong to the permanent collections of Northern Arizona University’s Art Museum, the Brown-Forman Corporation, the Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, and the Francis Greenburger Collection.
julianeshibata.com
Ariana Stein
Intern - Starworks Ceramics
Ariana Stein is a ceramic artist from St. Louis, Missouri. Raised between the American Midwest and Budapest, Hungary, Ariana's work is an amalgamation Hungarian and American pottery traditions. Her highly decorative pots depict traditional Eastern European motifs, while her surfaces and process are evocative of salt-fired American stoneware. Ariana pursues narrative storytelling in her work, using complex imagery and forms to tie folk tales into our present understanding of culture.
instagram.com/ceramicsby.ari