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Ink & Clay is an annual competition, established in 1971, of prints and drawings; ceramic ware and clay sculpture sponsored by the W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. The primary underwriting is through the generosity of Col. Jim Jones. Ink and Clay is an exhibition open to all of the Western States including Alaska and Hawaii.

Juror Statement

Marilyn A. Zeitlin, Director and Chief Curator of the Arizona State University Art Museum conceptualize the overall institutional direction. Zeitlin has over twenty years of museum experience as a curator and director. The focus of her curatorial work is the relationship of art to social issues and the interface between art and science. She received her A.B. and M.A.T. from Harvard University. She has taught art history in Asian and Pre-Columbian art and contemporary art at Cornell University, Bucknell University, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Her recent exhibitions include Contemporary Art from Cuba and Art Under Duress: El Salvador 1980- Present. Zeitlin served as the U.S. Commissioner to the 100th anniversary Venice Biennale in 1995, curating Bill Viola: Buried Secrets, which toured nationally and internationally.

Peter Held is currently Curator of Ceramics at the Ceramic Research Center, part of the ASU Art Museum at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Held also serves as a trustee for the American Craft Council. Peter Held received his B.S. degree in studio art from the State University of New York at Brockport, where he studied ceramics with Bill Stewart. Upon graduation, he moved to Helena, MT to become a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts. He later completed a Masters degree in Museum Administration at Oregon State University and interned at the Portland Art Museum. He returned to Helena in 1994 to serve as Executive Director and Curator of the Holter of Art. Peter has curated over fifty exhibitions since 1989 including five traveling ceramic shows: Ashen Beauty: Woodfired Ceramics, David Shaner: A Potter's Work, 1963-1993, Sisters of the Earth: Native American Ceramics, A Ceramic Continuum: Fifty Years of the Archie Bray Influence and the upcoming exhibition Between Clouds of Memory: Akio Takamori, A Mid-Career Survey.

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday through Friday 11:00am-4:00pm
Saturday Noon-4:00pm
during the Academic year