2020 NCECA Annual: The Burdens of History

Family Names to Last through the Generations, 2019 Stoneware and glaze 26" x 28" x 43" On loan courtesy of Leslie and Michael Weissman

2020 NCECA Annual: The Burdens of History

Published on Mar 19, 2020

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Anna Walker’s exhibition title, The Burdens of History, invites us to ruminate on the many ways that time’s passage compels the imagination to creative practice. With evocative organizing concepts, the exhibition’s call appealed to artists working with historical touchstones to reach innovative concepts and practices. Ceramic art is perhaps the most earthbound of all creative forms. The ground beneath our feet is a location we dig into to source materials as well as a repository for shards-filled strata embedded with signifiers, influences, and origins. In Richard Powers’ novel Generosity (2009), a creative nonfiction course is engaged in a classroom argument about whether there are a fixed number of stories in the world. The instructor reflects that he ought to advise his students that there are only two: “the future arrives to smack around the past, or the past reaches out to strangle the future.” Playful and pugilistic, this characterization of creative nonfiction...

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2020 NCECA Annual: The Burdens of History

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pages 21, 25, 37, 51, 67, 75, 77

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