{"id":2285,"date":"2025-02-21T18:16:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T22:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artworksaroundtown.org\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2025-02-21T18:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T22:35:16","slug":"ceramics-take-over-wheeling-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artworksaroundtown.org\/?p=2285","title":{"rendered":"Ceramics Take Over Wheeling &#8217;25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Artworks is pleased to be part of Oglebay Institute\u2019s Ceramics Takeover, 2025.&nbsp; For the third year, the Gallery will host a guest artist in the Studio Gallery.&nbsp; West Virginia native, Jen Gandee will be exhibiting and selling her ceramic pieces for the remainder of February and all of March, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artworksaroundtown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Jen-Bowl-IMG_3366-Small.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"540\" src=\"http:\/\/artworksaroundtown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Jen-Bowl-IMG_3366-Small.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2290\" srcset=\"http:\/\/artworksaroundtown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Jen-Bowl-IMG_3366-Small.png 540w, http:\/\/artworksaroundtown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Jen-Bowl-IMG_3366-Small-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/artworksaroundtown.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Jen-Bowl-IMG_3366-Small-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A reception will open the show, today, Friday, February 21 from 5:30-8 p.m. at Artworks.&nbsp; The party is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Gandee grew up in West Virginia.&nbsp; In 1996, she earned a BFA in Ceramics, followed by an MFA from Syracuse University\u2019s College of Visual and Performing Arts in 2008.&nbsp; During this time period, she developed a line of functional ceramic work which was sold widely at national craft shows, gallery venues and studio sales.&nbsp; She is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art at LeMoyne College and Cayuga Community College.&nbsp; She owns the Gandee Gallery in Fabius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; On her Gallery\u2019s website, she states,&nbsp; \u201cWhen working as a potter, I want to create objects that are useful and enhance domestic life\u201d. Her pots are generally thrown and hand built with a slab of porcelain clay. After an initial bisque firing, she glazes the pieces and fires them to 2260 degrees F.&nbsp; She selects her subjects from her own photographs, which she manipulates digitally.&nbsp; These images are put onto special decal paper refining them with a laser printer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Artworks is pleased to be part of Oglebay Institute\u2019s Ceramics Takeover, 2025.&nbsp; For the third year, the Gallery will host a guest artist in the Studio Gallery.&nbsp; West Virginia native, Jen Gandee will be exhibiting and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/artworksaroundtown.org\/?p=2285\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/artworksaroundtown.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/artworksaroundtown.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/artworksaroundtown.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artworksaroundtown.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artworksaroundtown.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/artworksaroundtown.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292,"href":"http:\/\/artworksaroundtown.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions\/2292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/artworksaroundtown.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artworksaroundtown.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artworksaroundtown.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}