2025 Past Exhibitions

MoNA Ceramic Invitational 2025: Build Me Up, Tear Me Down, Why Don’t You Love Me Babe Like There’s No One Around? features 12 remarkable artists from the Pacific Northwest whose engagement with clay offers a seductive account of the expressive possibilities of the medium. The exhibition features work by Iván Carmona, Emily Counts, Daniel Duford, Claudia Fitch, Ariana Heinzman, Holly Hudson, Ryan W. Kelly, Dirk Staschke, Chris Theiss, Timea Tihanyi, Tip Toland, and Patti Warashina. Inaugurating the Museum’s new series of thematic Invitationals, Build Me Up, Tear Me Down, Why Don’t You Love Me Babe Like There’s No One Around offers a window into the contemporary landscape of clay sculpture which, modeled by hand, becomes an extension of the body and the being which inhabits it.