Exhibition: Grace Orwen:– RUNT

Grace Orwen’s exhibition, RUNT, celebrates the completion of her time at the Clay Studio of Missoula as a resident artist from 2022-2024. Grace creates objects as vessels for reflecting on her upbringing in rural Nebraska and the enduring impact of those experiences on her adult life. In this exhibition, Grace embraces this inner work at an intimate scale in clay. Utilizing landscape imagery, portraiture, and a myriad of ceramic techniques, she assembles a mosaic of objects that attempt to unravel the complexities of shared cultural values, differences, and struggles. By encapsulating these nuanced themes within compact forms, she encourages introspection and dialogue within the confines of the small, yet elaborate, world of ceramic art.