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Thirty-five years ago, Northern Clay Center opened to the public. Since then, countless artists, students, and community members have crossed through its doors, communing amongst clay. NCC has steadily grown its archival collection since its early days, and its story of binary gender in collections is a familiar one, but not an unchanging one.
Still Forming: 35 Years of Clay, Collection, and Change tells the story of the collection’s past, present, and future through ceramic objects and the artists who composed them. It’s a story of history’s collective patriarchy, the turn toward feminist collecting, and an achievable, equitable future.