Artists In Residence
2024 Schedule of Events

Want to connect with our artists during the Esperienza Artists In Residence program? Here’s how:

• June 4
  Fiorenza Pancino arrives in Minneapolis from Faenza, Italy

• June 8, 5:00-8:00 pm
  Free welcome gathering and demonstration with Fiorenza Pancino and Kelly Newcomer at FormaClay’s “Second Saturday” event. Details here.

• June 12, 6:00 pm
  Fiorenza Pancino will deliver a free lecture at Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis about her journey as a maker, her current work and her experience as an artist in Faenza, Italy, live at NCC and on Zoom. Register here.

• June 14, 6:00-9:00 pm
  Lavish multi-course Italian dinner with Fiorenza and Kelly, hosted and prepared by the former Director of the Weisman Art Museum, Lyndel King, in her remarkable home. Limited availability. Details and registration here.

• June 29, 11:00 am-1:00 pm
  Demonstration and hands-on activity with Fiorenza Pancino at FormaClay. Learn to hand-build your own creation, inspired by Fiorenza’s technique. Register here.

• July 6 & 7, 10:00 am-2:00 pm
  Art Is A Channel Fear Can Pass Through,” a two-day intensive workshop by Fiorenza Pancino at FormaClay. Together, we will delve into our emotions, and translate them into works of art. Register here.

• August & September
  Kelly Newcomer travels to Faenza, Italy for Artist In Residence program, to study with local artists, and participate in Argilla, the bi-annual international ceramics festival.

• October & November
  Workshops at FormaClay, led by Kelly Newcomer, after her return from Faenza Italy, where she will use majolica-inspired in-glaze techniques.
  

Stay tuned for more events! And check out all the ways you can support the full-circle program here.

About the 2024 Artists

Born in Veneto in 1966, Fiorenza Pancino has lived and worked in Faenza for over 20 years. She is passionate about ceramics, which she says resembles her because like her is sensitive to sudden changes in temperature. However she also uses other mediums, such as videos, photography and materials, like paper and fabric, in her artistic endeavours. Recent projects include an International Ceramic Residency at Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, China and at Ceratekno, Toki, Japan.

Based in Minneapolis, MN, the ceramics work of Kelly Newcomer draws inspiration from relationships of caring between humans, earth systems, machines, and the electromagnetic spectrum. Her colorful, painterly works on paper and her ceramic figures are inspired by the non-dystopian potential of our shared future on earth. Her work is influenced by theorist Donna Haraway, “Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones get made and unmade.” (The Cyborg Manifesto, 1984). Kelly has exhibited widely and also licenses her work as a commercial illustrator. 

We are raising funds to send Kelly to Faenza in August and September 2024, where she will learn from local artists and participate in Argilla, Faenza’s bi-annual international festival of ceramics.