Williamson Gallery, Scripps College

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May 1–16, 2026

Opening Reception
Friday, May 1, 2026 | 4–6PM

81st Scripps College Ceramic Annual⁠
Means to an End⁠
February 7–April 5, 2026⁠
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The gallery is open Wednesday – Sunday
from 12 – 5pm⁠
always free and open to the public!⁠
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📷 David Torralva

81st Scripps College Ceramic Annual

Means to an End

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 7

from 7 – 9 pm, free!

music, food, refreshments

[image: Patrick Martinez, Feathered Serpent Immersed in Flowers, 2024 - Courtesy of the artist and Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles]

The Scripps College Ceramic Annual, the longest continuous exhibition of contemporary ceramics in the United States, enters its ninth decade with Means to an End. Guest curated by ceramic artist Reniel Del Rosario, this exhibition considers contemporary artists’ enduring fascination with clay, a medium that demands precision, patience, and resilience. The artists in this exhibition embrace clay’s challenges, using ceramics as a springboard for innovation and dialogue across diverse media.

Del Rosario has selected works by artists who integrate ceramics into broader artistic approaches, combining clay with video, collage, painting, performance, and more. Works by Debra Broz, Paola de la Calle, Cathy Della Lucia, Fred DeWitt, Matt Goldberg, Dana Hemenway, Stephanie Temma Hier, Haylie Jimenez, Sahar Khoury, Karen Kuo, Cathy Lu, Kari Marboe, Patrick Martinez, and Victor Saucedo challenge conventional ideas about the utility and limitations of the medium and demonstrate its unique dynamism. Collectively, these artists reveal clay’s enduring relevance to and pervasive presence in contemporary art.

“I wanted to curate a Ceramic Annual that feels distinctly nontraditional,” says Del Rosario. “The artists in Means to an End work in ceramics almost by coincidence—there are many other ways they could create their objects. But there is this innate pull, an adoration of ceramics, that makes them utilize the material. It is one of the most exciting and flexible materials to work with.”


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Known colloquially as “Cities of the Dead” due to above-ground tombs, photographer Dody Weston Thompson captures a mausoleum in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, the oldest extant graveyard in her hometown of New Orleans. This is the final resting place of prominent New Orleans figures and families as well as Nicolas Cage’s future tomb.

“Vodou Queen” Marie Laveau is one of the famous figures buried in this historic cemetery. Born in 1801 to a Haitian mother and white father, Laveau was a successful hairdresser, herbalist, and midwife. She was known by many for her kind and gentle character, ability to heal and nurture the sick, and legacy for syncretizing Haitian-African spiritualism with Roman Catholic practices into what is now considered New Orleans Vodou. Today, visitors honor her by placing three hair clips or marking three X’s in chalk on her grave.

Happy Halloween!

-Tara Attanasio ‘26

Image credit:
Dody Weston Thompson (1923–2012)
St. Louis Graveyard, Mausoleum, New Orleans, c. 1952
Scripps College Collection
Gift of the Thompson Family Trust made possible in part by Michael and Jane Wilson
2013.29.221.

Visit the link below to read an article in the LAist about the the exhibit opening this Saturday September 13th at the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, 𝘗𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘴: 𝘜𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘈𝘭𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘰 𝘙𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘵í𝘯𝘦𝘻.

https://laist.com/brief/news/los-angeles-activities/scripps-college-alfredo-ramos-martinez-art-show-legacy

𝑃𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑒 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑠: 𝑈𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠 𝑏𝑦 𝐴𝑙𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑜 𝑅𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑠 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖́𝑛𝑒𝑧
will be on view at the Williamson Gallery from September 13 through December 14!

Acclaimed Mexican modernist Alfredo Ramos Martínez has typically been viewed as apolitical. In this groundbreaking reappraisal, more than 25 mural studies, drawings, and paintings by Ramos Martínez—most never or rarely exhibited—shed new light on his vision and demonstrate his engagement with labor, revolution, Indigenous identity, and war in early twentieth-century Mexico and Los Angeles.

Join us on September 13 from
7 to 9 PM to celebrate the opening of 𝑃𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑒 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑠 with an evening of art, live music, and refreshments as well as classic boleros, rancheras, and more from LA-based trío romántico .

𝑃𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑒 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑠: 𝑈𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠 𝑏𝑦 𝐴𝑙𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑜 𝑅𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑠 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖́𝑛𝑒𝑧
will be on view at the Williamson Gallery from September 13 through December 14! Acclaimed Mexican modernist Alfredo Ramos Martínez has typically been viewed as apolitical. In this groundbreaking reappraisal, more than 25 mural studies, drawings, and paintings by Ramos Martínez—most never or rarely exhibited—shed new light on his vision and demonstrate his engagement with labor, revolution, Indigenous identity, and war in early twentieth-century Mexico and Los Angeles.

Join us on September 13 from 7 to 9 PM to celebrate the opening of 𝑃𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑒 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑠 with an evening of art, live music, and refreshments as well as classic boleros, rancheras, and more from LA-based trío romántico .

For more information, visit rcwg.scrippscollege.edu.