QUIETUDE
Mfa thesis exhibition by Caroline Robert’s (@itsjustmud ).
On display from 4/20 - 4/29, 2026 in the Tippets & Eccles galleries.
The reception will be held on 4/23 from 5-7pm.
New potteries available @phillipsgallery in Salt Lake City
For last year’s NCECA, I put together a group exhibition at Phillips with my fellow grad students and faculty at Utah State. Phillips is Salt Lake City’s oldest art gallery and it was such a treat to show our work there. I’m thrilled to be back again this summer in their beautiful space! If you’re in the area, the opening reception is tonight from 6-9 p.m. Otherwise, you can check it out through their website.
About that time again! Join us this Friday (May/15) for our show opening from 6 - 9 pm.
Main floor:
Craig Law - @craigjaylaw
Hunter Jackson - @hunterjackson1812
Dibble:
Caroline Roberts - @itsjustmud
Nikita Nenashev - @sidestoke
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Another favorite from my thesis. Partly because this glaze is a pain in the a** to get right…or, I guess, the right amount of wrong. And, because the shape was lightly inspired by an ocean dwelling organism called the “Wandering Meatloaf”.
This tray, along with a selection of other new work, will be part of an exhibition at Phillips Gallery in Salt Lake City this summer.
Caroline Roberts, Long-Term Resident
Caroline Roberts is an artist potter, born in Wisconsin and raised across the upper Midwest. She completed her B.S. in Fine Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2020 and is currently an MFA candidate at Utah State University. Roberts has completed residencies at Cub Creek Foundation in Virginia and at Pleasant Hill Pottery in Oregon. She has taught atmospheric firing workshops as well as participated in numerous exhibitions nationwide.
Last year in our tool making class I worked on a handful of whisks for the final project. The black walnut handles were turned on a lathe, outfitted with copper pipe caps and stainless steel wire. I’m working on getting my studio put together and found these two under a pile of scrap wood. Although I may have abandoned them for reasons unknown, I was pretty darn happy with how they turned out. Probably one of my favorite projects in grad school.
I’ve been making these trays with no ends and hadn’t quite settled on a response to “but what do you put in it??” until a guy at the holiday sale said it was perfect for his rocks (genius idea).
So from now on, if anyone asks what anything is for, it might be a subtle eye roll and a “rocks, duh”.
