Exhibition Statement
Experiences of movement and sti 11 ness are at the core of my artistic practice. I feel most attuned to my inner thoughts and reflections when I am very still - a state that I experience daily in the studio. The majority of the work I do in wet clay and post­-firing happens at the very end of my fingertips. This work is focused, repetitive, and specific. Alternatively, I am most invigorated and inspired by the inputs of the outside world when in motion. Time spent outside of the studio often takes these forms: walking, running, gardening, cycling, and traveling. Observations bring together a collection of works built from direct experiences of moving through and being in different landscapes.
Works in this exhibition were made while traveling or in response to travel - sometimes at residences, sometimes at kitchen tables of friends and family, and at times in public spaces. This combination of stillness, movement, and time - looking fast and making slow or making fast and looking slow - brings together the wonder and the wander that shaped my life. References to architecture, plant life or life cycles, and the nuances of materials, shadows, and reflections are abundant.
Different clay bodies and fiber materials give variations in color and texture that permeate the forms. The materials build relationships between elements present in the work and local practices or issues. Works like De Dónde Vienen Los Colores I Where the Colors Come From present bleached sculptures of the plants used to dye the wool that is woven into a form and pattern behind it. Dos Tierras, Un Cielo / Two Earths, One Sky merge clay from Kansas City with clay from Mexico to replicate the pattern on a ceiling of a historic church whose construction materials were also clearly mined from different locations. Sjóndeildarhring / Horizon uses a local Icelandic clay as a glaze to hold together forms. Often, these clays are specific to a location or experience - harvesting and using local clay is an act of grounding, locating, and orienting the work in a specific place and time.
My intention is not to narrate my travels nor to describe each landscape, plant species, or piece of architecture that inspired the works. This exhibition aims to engage the eyes and the body in the act of observing and to offer perceptual opportunities for viewers to move fast and slow with the work - to see something from across the room and discover something new about it as they get closer, move past it, see it in a different light, or at a different time of day.

In memory of Maestro Agapito Jimenez, whose voice and commitment to technique on the loom has been and will continue to be a source of inspiration.

Works by seven ceramic artists exploring visual, metaphoric, and transformative interactions between ceramic materials and collected objects. Chotsani Elaine Dean, Rachel Eng, Jesse Ring, Dennis Ritter, Amy Santoferraro, Grace Tessein, and Casey Whittier. Organized by Dennis Ritter.

The Center will hold a Special Event Reception on March 17 from 4:30-9:30PM.

Location
9683 Elk Grove Florin Road
Elk Grove, CA 95624
(916) 685-5992
info@elkgrovefineartscenter.org

Center Hours
Wednesdays - Saturdays
11AM-4PM

AN EXHIBITION OF THE MIDWEST REGION’S FINEST GLASS ART
APRIL 1 - MAY 7, 2022
at Belger Crane Yard Gallery
2011 Tracy Avenue, Kansas City, MO
gallery@belgerartscenter.org

816-474-7316

at Belger Crane Yard Studios
2011 Tracy Avenue, Kansas City, MO 64108

Common Thread brings together the work of five ceramic artists who are inspired by textiles and textile processes. While the artists’ inspirations and representations vary, each incorporates fibers or fiber techniques in their process.

Shae Bishop explores the relationship between ceramics and textiles by making connections between each medium’s cultural history, pattern-making systems, and interactions with the human body. His work includes wearable garment sculptures made of interlaced ceramic tiles. Jeremy Brooks crochets, knits, and weaves strands of elastic clay to create forms that are inspired by traditional vessel making, mundane objects, and the queer experience. April Felipe’s collaged works blend ceramics, fiber, and wood and reference her childhood home, themes of identity, and the desire to belong. Inspired by ancient Italian and Lithuanian techniques, Anna Valenti’s woven and pinched clay vessels highlight shared traditions, human interaction, connectivity, and empathy. Casey Whittier’s work examines the systems of construction adopted from historical craft disciplines. Linking forms such as ceramic coils and beads she creates ceramic quilts, flowers, and other objects used in daily life.

The artists in Common Thread demonstrate a mastery of craft, a profound understanding of human connection, and share a playful and experimental approach to clay materials and processes.

GALLERY HOURS
Tuesday - Friday*
10 A.M. to 5 P.M.

Saturday
10 A.M. to 4 P.M.
*First Fridays Open 10 A.M. - 8 P.M.

Join us on Friday, Jan 14th for a masked opening (spread awkward joy, not omicron).

1856 N Richmond St, Chicago, IL 60647

Gallery hours every Saturday, 12-3pm or by appointment

Cleaner Gallery

“Secret Life of Plants” is a group exhibition that brings together work by eight current and former Kansas City-based artists interested in plant life and its relationship to our daily existence.
Amanda Gehin’s work explores the interrelationships of plants local to Kansas and Missouri, and the insects that evolved alongside these plants. The exhibition includes an open edition take-away photograph from the Los Angeles-based photographer Ahram Park. Park’s
photographic practice involves collecting, manipulating and coexisting with plants as conversation partners in a dialogue about mortality and solitude. Caitlin Horsmon's large scale video installation began as a painstaking process of using green plants to directly transfer their image to black and white 16mm film. The result is a shimmering, fragmented narrative of our fraught relationship with invasive species. Amy Kligman’s paintings use the still life canon to explore the persistent role of plants in ritual, spiritual and daily practices across time. The meticulous arrangements of Megan Pobywajlo s large-scale photographs are made in
collaboration with found materials. In these photographs plants play an important role both as formal elements and markers of place. Casey Whittier s earthenware chainmail sculptures weave together metaphor, history of women’s labour and autobiographical narratives.The act of
care for living beings is at the center of Julie Farstad's sprawling installation consisting of paintings, living plants, lamps, timers and electrical cords. Sarah Hearn calls herself a “citizen-scientist”, which is evident in her multimedia inquiry into the invisible life around us such as bacteria, viruses and fungi networks.

“Secret Life of Plants” is on view in the FADS Gallery until October 25th, 2021
Visiting Hours: 10am-5pm, Monday-Friday

Parking at JCCC is free. Masks/Facial coverings are required for all JCCC buildings.

FADS (Fine Arts and Design Studios)
Johnson County Community College
12345 College Blvd
Overland Park, KS 66210

The H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute is pleased to present the 2021 Kansas City Flatfile & Digitalfile, featuring artwork by over 270 regional emerging and established visual artists.

As a signature Artspace event hosted as a biennial exhibition since 2001, the Kansas City Flatfile & Digitalfile is a celebrated tradition that offers artists and art lovers a unique way to share and discover new two dimensional and time-based works and gather as a community.
Visitors are invited to explore Flatfile cabinets filled with custom-made artist portfolios containing a diverse range of flat works and view time-based works included in the Digitafile. Throughout the exhibition, guest curators will create salon walls that feature a rotation of artworks and screening queues to offer visitors a
dynamic and ever-changing experience.

The Artspace is open and free to all. To protect the well-being of visitors, masks and social distancing are requested for unvaccinated visitors during public hours, Wednesday through Saturday, 12:00 - 5:00 p.m. (There will be no opening reception for this exhibition.)

Contemporary Textiles

Thirteen Artists Share a Thread on Traditional Textile
Salina, Kan. (August 2, 2021) – Contemporary Textile opens August 11, 2021, at Salina Art Center, 242 S. Santa Fe. Galleries are open Wednesday-Sunday, and admission is FREE.

Visit www.salinaartcenter.org for gallery hours and additional programming information. The exhibition runs through October 3, 2021.
Contemporary Textile spans a wide range of fiber-art practices, including quilting, thread painting, lacework, beading, and weaving. Weaving, and our basic understanding of loom, warp, and weft, stretch to cover such divergent applications as computer-generated Jacquard, tapestry, and even sculpture. Artists in this group exhibition challenge our conventional understanding of thread, fiber, cloth, and embroidery.

Heralding from Salina, Kansas City, New York, Chicago, and Eugene, this divergent group of artists introduces a variety of scales from small intricately woven handmade embellishments to large fabric installations. Exhibiting Artists include Shawn Marie Delker, Leadell Ediger, Kim Eichler-Messmer, Rachelle Gardner-Roe, Jean Hamilton, Ellie Murphy, kg, Jovencio de la Paz, Kathryne Perney, Jason Pollen, Casey Whittier, Kristy Yenkey, and Jillian Youngbird.
The public is invited to an opening reception on Friday, August 13, 2021, 5-7 pm. Salina Art Center Curator Jefferson Godard will give remarks at 6 pm. Additional programming and special events are listed on our website.

August 6 - September 25, 2021
The Front Gallery

Leedy-Voulkos Art Center
2012 Baltimore Ave. KC MO 64108
www.leedy-voulkos.com 816-474-1919

Curator Helen Molesworth, in a recent online talk, described the work of Zoe Leonard as evidence of “art’s small gestures of repair.” During times of conflict and challenge, art and artists can play a particular role in facilitating conversations and healing.

Small Gestures of Repair, a juried exhibition featuring the work of twenty-three artists from across the United States (and one from Austria), reflects the challenges of Year 2020-- a time of global pandemic, ecological disaster, racial unrest, economic crisis, and political contention. The statements of the artists themselves bear witness to the times as they record the living hardships of what it is to be human in a time of dis-ease and frayed edges.

Juror, Joyce Harlow, referenced the very real tension she found evident in the varied pieces in this show--the tension between loneliness, isolation, despair, and fragility on one hand, balanced against the need for expressions of beauty, hope, connection, and “control of the broken pieces” on the other. The works in Small Gestures of Repair explore many layers of obscured reality, find beauty in imperfections, combine the grotesque with the whimsical, utilize old materials in new ways, take deliberate refuge in meditative practices, and find reparation in, as exhibition artist, Dale Hartley states, “go[ing] forward instead of stumbling to a stop.”

“We always carry with us our storage or travel bags,” notes artist, Becky Hyberger. What the viewer of this exhibit finds at the end of 2020’s long journey is a sense of catharsis and more than one gesture of repair embedded in this honest and unfiltered art.

JUROR:

Juror, Joyce Harlow, has served as the Director of Lincoln Art Center, Lincoln KS for 23 years. She is a photographer and owner of Harlow Studio, as well as a watercolor and pastel artist. A member of the Kansas Photographers Association, the Kansas Pastel Society, and Kansas Small Oil Painters Association, Joyce has shown her work widely--among other venues, at the Smoky Hill Art Exhibition, Salina Art Center, and KWU Gallery.

ARTIST LIST:

Kayla Borell ( Lindsborg KS), Connie Burket (Salina KS), Norman Carr (Wichita KS), Sandra Jean Ceas (Littleton CO), Hannah Crickman (Salina KS), Joey Embers (Topeka KS), Kitty Fapp (Manhattan KS), Linda Foster (Miltonvale KS), Nina Gospodin (Vienna, Austria), Michaela Groeblacher (Lindsborg KS), Sarah Gross (Lawrence KS), Dale Hartley (Emporia KS), Becky Hyberger (Salina KS), Gesine Janzen (Bozeman MT), Alex Moore (Wichita KS), Andre Ramos-Woodard (Albuquerque NM), Cooper Siegel (Jefferson MD), Amanda Smith (Springfield MO), Jade Solch (Charlotte NC), Debbie Wagner (Bennington KS), Liz Walker (Eudora KS), Casey Whittier (Kansas City KS), Morgan Ford Willingham (Emporia KS).

Something To Carry My Guilt In was chosen by juror, Pablo Barrera of the Oklahoma Contemporary for inclusion in Materials Hard + Soft at the Greater Denton Arts Council in Denton, TX.

The animalia kingdom is defined as a diverse category, which includes over one million species ranging from human beings to giant squid. Through the works of twenty-seven contemporary artists, the ANIMALIA exhibition explores artists' interpretations and representations of this natural world as expressed in their art.

Since time immemorial, humans have had a complex relationship and fascination with animals. As early cohabitants, humans have relied on animals for survival; to provide food and clothing; while their beauty has provided endless creative inspiration. Throughout history and across cultures, animal iconography realistic or imaginary in representation, has occupied a central role in mankind's artistic expression and thought. Today, this affinity to the animal realm has changed but the desire to document it continues to endure.

The outstanding display of works in the ANIMALIA exhibit confirms this relentless human obsession and pays homage to all forms of the natural world. It also provides an alluring look into each artist's perspective on the intricate human-animal relationship, through a variety of depictions and motifs: symbolical icons, mythical creatures, sacred supernatural beings, and portraits of favorite household pets.

Expressed in a wide-ranging compilation of works, these documentations of encounters and interactions with animality, traverse a variety of dramatically striking styles and media: ceramics, textiles, drawings, sculpture, painting, printmaking, photography, beadwork, video and installations.

Sadly, for most Western modern societies, the little exposure humans presently have to the animalia kingdom is a sentimental attachment to a domesticated pet. Or perhaps, for those seeking a slightly more authentic encounters, a hike in a national park or a visit to the zoo. ANIMALIA affords visitors an occasion to reflect on these contemporary attitudes towards our entangled human-animal bond. More importantly, it is an opportunity to renew our appreciation for the world of animality, our interconnectedness and shared existence on earth.

Artists featured:
Darcie Abbatiello, Lisa Breznak, Jodi Cachia, Vincent Dion, Rachel Eng,Jonathan Fitz, Evelyn Gardiner, Erin Gardner, Karen Gibbons, Alyssa Greening, Jenn Houle, Dani Ives, Daniel M Long, Beth Lowell, Ryan Lytle, Michael McConnell, Caitlin McCormack, Sharon Pierce McCullough, Margaret Neher, Guno Park, Masako Roberts, Kathleen Robbins, Scott Schuldt, Joseph Smolinski, Casey Whittier, Gretchen Woodman and Lydia Viscardi.

For more information regarding, ANIMALIA or the Ann Street Gallery contact Virginia Walsh, Director
at (845) 784-1146, vwalsh@annstreetgallery.org, or visit www.annstreetgallery.org.
Virginia Walsh curated the exhibition - it will be on view through Saturday, January 11, 2020.

NEW, FIVE: KCAI Biennial
September 27 – December 7, 2019


Join us for an opening reception Friday, September 27, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Please join us as we celebrate the opening of NEW, FIVE: KCAI Biennial. This exhibition introduces new and recent works by artists, designers, poets, and scholars who have recently been appointed to the faculty of the Kansas City Art Institute.

NEW, FIVE: KCAI Biennial features a range of media including drawing, sculpture, ceramics, video, stop-motion animation, graphic design, illustration, and text. Participants include Bona Bones (Animation), Héctor Casanova (Illustration), Christiane Cegavske (Animation), Eleanor Lim-Midyett (Liberal Arts), Adam Lucas (Graphic Design), Lisa Maione (Graphic Design), Il Sung Na (Illustration), Sean Nash (Painting). Steve Rowell (Photography), Jean Schmitt (Foundation), Steve Snell (Foundation), Christopher Spaw (Foundation), Jordan Stempleman (Liberal Arts), and Casey Whittier (Ceramics).

NEW, FIVE: KCAI Biennial is organized for the Artspace by members of the Educational Outreach and Exhibition Committee (EOEC), a faculty-led committee dedicated to connecting the KCAI community of students, faculty, and staff to professional opportunities to exhibit, share, extend, and expand the reach of their work and creative practices. Each year, EOEC works together with local affiliates and institutional partners to organize exhibitions of student work, create opportunities to exhibit work by faculty and staff, and publicize student grant opportunities.

Image (detail): Casey Whittier, Deep Sigh/Short of Breath (how we hold together/when we fall apart), 2019, ceramic beads, glaze, fishing line, nails; courtesy of the artist. Photo by T. Maxwell Wagner.

I'm so excited to present a grouping of recent work, titled:

Because You've Made a Home of Me

April 12, 2019 - May 12, 2019

Flock Salon and Gallery
2009 Baltimore Ave, Kansas City, MO 64108

Hours: 11am - 6pm Tuesday - Friday and 11am - 5pm Saturday

A Solo Exhibition by Casey Whittier


Clayton Staples Gallery

Wichita State University
Room 205, McKnight Art Center
(Next to Ulrich Museum of Art)

Lecture and Opening Reception:
Feb 21, 2019
Lecture at 4pm, reception to follow

Please join me for the opening reception of Every Corner: A Confessional on Aug. 31st from 5-9pm.

Insight Artist Talk Sept. 12 at 7pm.

Gallery Hours:
Monday thru Saturday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m
Sundays from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m

940 New Hampshire St
Lawrence, Kansas 66044

For more information: www.lawrenceartcenter.org

Safe Harbors Ann Street Gallery presents our newest exhibition:

Rituals & Identity
A group exhibition

Saturday, June 23
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

104 Ann Street
Newburgh, NY 12550

This event is free and open to the public.

Rituals & Identity brings together a diverse collection of works by twenty-two artists, who explore the theme of rituals through imagery and provide a fascinating glimpse into rites of passage, communal rites and the rites of personal devotion.

Every society has rituals that mark daily routines and significant events during the life cycle: birth, marriage, and death. Most commonly defined as a series of established, habitual actions carried out for spiritual, social, political and personal significance; rituals are also the very processes by which identity is established and maintained.

Based on ritualistic constructs, values are communicated, which assist in reaffirming individual and collective identities through a shared sensory, psychological and emotional experience. In turn, these identities influence how societies perceive and express themselves, adopt social customs and align themselves with certain religious or political beliefs.

Through the works on display, this exhibit offers an opportunity to reevaluate the power of rituals in our modern day and take a fresh look at how they form our perceptions of who we are collectively and privately. In addition, we see the ability they have in impacting identity, societies and culture while uniting us in shared experiences.

Artists featured: Kelly Boehmer, Laura Chenicek, Peter Christenson, Dustin Clark, Lisa Falkenstern, Margaret Fanning, Niamh Farrely, Nicole Foran, Alex Griffin, Grishma Khodaria, Virginia Lavado, Katrina Majkut, John C. Manion, Jaquelyn Mendez, Alfonse Pagano, Irene Pouliassi, Chris Revelle, Camilo Rojas, Ola Rondiak, Casey Whittier, Katie Wild, and Theresa Wilshusen.

For more information regarding Rituals & Identity, or the Ann Street Gallery, contact Virginia Walsh, Director at (845) 784-1146, vwalsh@annstreetgallery, or visit www.annstreetgallery.org.

The exhibition was curated by Virginia Walsh and will be on view through Saturday, August 4, 2018.

So excited to be part of this one!

Something To Carry My Guilt In is holding down a pedestal at The Clay Studio National at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, PA!

The Clay Studio National is a biannual exhibition show casing the full range of ceramic art being made in the United States now. Through this juried exhibition we highlight a diverse range of work, from functional to sculptural, and from traditional production techniques to cutting edge manufacturing technology.

Guest juror this year is Beth Ann Gerstein, Executive Director of the American Museum of Ceramic Art.

Opening Reception: First Friday, June 1, 5 - 8 pm

The Clay Studio
137-139 North Second Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106

Gallery & Shop Hours
Monday–Saturday 11am – 6pm
Sunday 12pm – 6pm

Exposure is an exhibition that asks artists invite someone outside of their typical associations into their studio to create together; an exchange of ideas, collaboration, and the resulting work.

Included Artists: Blanca Guerra, Jennifer Arnold, Mitch Shiles, Salvador Jiménez Flores, Alia Pialtos, Casey Whittier, Emily Manko, Jesse Ring, Kelcy Chase Folsom, Rachel Eng, John Emerson.

Organized by Jessie Rommelt & Rachel Eng.

Bunker Projects at GBBN Architects
5411 Penn Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA

Hours: Wednesday-Friday 5-8pm

Artist Reception and Gallery Talks:
Friday, March 16th from 5-8pm

I have been working with Austin Dearth, an artist at Imagine That! KC, since November on work for this show. More about Imagine That! KC at:
www.imaginethatkc.org

Hope to see you at the College Art Association's annual conference. I'm chairing a panel this year, details below:

“TOUCH AND TOOLING: A SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON CRAFT AND ENGAGEMENT IN CONTEMPORARY CERAMICS”

Time: 02/22/2018: 4:00PM–5:30PM
Location: Room 408B

Abstract:
Contemporary ceramics has deep roots in the craft and fine art worlds and is at home in both contexts. While broad in application and methodology, we propose that the field should be considered unified equally by its social history as by its materiality; clay carries with it the history of its use in nearly every culture and corner of the earth. This is an inherently participatory history that challenges the notion that socially engaged art practices are a new trend and gives precedent to the ways that contemporary practitioners expand notions of craft and engagement with ceramics.

To unpack this, we will look at the contributions of ceramics by presenting artists and projects that have built upon the following categories and their histories: ritual objects and representations of self (the figure), ceramics as tool for civic engagement (Greek voting, artistic activism), consumption and nourishment (the vessel and, in turn, the toilet), and the building of shelters and places of gathering (brick, tile, architecture).

When viewed from a perspective that includes the social and cultural implications as integral aspects of the material, we see the long tradition of artists utilizing ceramics as an impetus for social change, and we can begin to ask questions like:

How can contemporary ceramic artists use this knowledge to address social, political, and ecological concerns and ensure a future for ceramic art?

Does that change how one might consider and evaluate a work?

Are there additional tools and techniques that should be taught or considered?


Participants:

“Touch and Tooling: Representations of Self in Ceramic Art History and Socially Engaged Practice”
Casey Whittier, Kansas City Art Institute

“Touch and Tooling: Consumption, Nourishment and the Social History of the Vessel”
Jeni Hansen Gard, Independent Artist

“Touch and Tooling: Ceramics as a Tool for Social Engagement”
Shannon Waldman, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

“Touch and Tooling: Ceramics and the Architecture of Social Progression”
Henry Crissman, Independent Artist

The Longest Flight, Greatest Chase and My Promise will be at the Salina Arts Center for the Salina Biennial this year.

Feb 21, 2018 - May 20, 2018
Gallery Talk: Friday March 9th, 6pm

Salina Arts Center is located at:
242 S. Santa Fe
Salina, KS, 67401

Salinaartcenter.org

Gallery Hours:
Wed - Sat, noon - 5 p.m.
Sun, 1 - 5 p.m.

March 10, 2018 – July 22, 2018
Reception: Saturday, March 10, 2018, 6-9pm
Patti Warashina, Juror Presentation, 7:00pm

The American Museum of Ceramic Art is pleased to announce Fahrenheit 2018. Patti Warashina served as the juror for the exhibition and selected work from 80 artists from across the country.

AMOCA is located at:
399 N Garey Ave
Pomona, CA 91767

Museum Hours:
Wednesday-Sunday, Noon-5pm;
Second Saturdays, Noon-9pm

Something Between You and Me

Solo Exhibition

Jan. 11, 2018 - Feb. 2, 2018

Sleeth Gallery
West Virginia Wesleyan College
College Ave, Buckhannon, WV 26201

Excited to have two new pieces My Promise; My Prison headed to Iowa City for the Terrain Biennial. Work will be up from Oct. 1st to Nov. 15th, 2017.

My work will be displayed outside at 1034 East Burlington Ave.

Artist talk at the University of Iowa with Mike Rea from 3:30-4:30 in the Art building, room E105.

Opening reception on Oct. 13th, 2017 from 5-8pm at Public Space One in Iowa City.

More information on the Terrain Biennial can be found at:
Terrain Exhibitions

East of the Sun is on its way to the KACA Material Mastery Exhibition at the Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery in Lindsborg, KS!

Opening reception is August 5, 2017 from 5-7pm.

Gallery Location:
401 N 1st St, Lindsborg, KS 67456

Gallery Hours:
10-5 Tuesday - Saturday
1-5 on Sunday

Hope to see you there!

Hung to Dry and Put Up Wet are currently showing at the InterUrban Art House in Overland Park, KS. The studio member exhibition will run through August of 2017.

Check out their studio spaces, gallery spaces, community programming and......the renovations that are underway to give InterUrban a fully functioning ceramics studio!

8001 Newton, Overland Park, KS 66204 (The old post office building)

I'm excited to be spending July back at ArtFarm in Marquette, NE. The above image is of Victoria, one of the buildings at ArtFarm.

This year I will be working with some fellow artists to use local clay in the production of custom tiles for the Farmhouse. This is the same house that Honey, Baby is installed in.

Follow along through my instagram page @caseywhittier and check out my collaborators:

Rachel Eng
Mitch Shiles
Arthaya Nootecharas

Hand/Tool, is showing as part of the Outsider Gallery Invitational Exhibition! The image above is one component of that piece.

Honored to be showing with such a great group of artists, including:

John Davis Carroll, Mark Cowardin, Laura Harris-Gascogne, Jo Kamm, Misha Kligman, Beniah Leuschke, Anson Thee Ornery, Michael Pesselato, Angelica Sandoval, Kent Michael Smith, and Caleb Taylor.

The gallery is located in Frankfort KS. The exhibition can be viewed during the opening or by appointment. Contact insideoutsidergallery@gmail.com for more information or to schedule a viewing.

Pinch/Punch is a collaboration between Casey Whittier + Mark Raymer and a part of Third Pill : A large scale multi-gallery exhibition that focuses on fun as an intersection between irony and sincerity.

Beco Flowers is located at 1922 Baltimore Ave, KC MO.
Normal business hours are 9-5, Monday - Friday.
Opening reception on Feb. 3rd from 6-9pm. Closing reception on Feb. 24th, 6-9pm.

About Pinch/Punch Collab:
"This collaboration has been an opportunity to re-think and re-contextualize objects and aspects of our studio practices. It's fascinating to think about how each of us approaches the representation of objects, materials, landscape, and narrative in our individual work. Having the opportunity to play and experiment and meld these ideas together was both freeing and challenging. Each studio visit was a new series of questions about how the various elements of our work and working methodologies overlap, interact, contradict, overwhelm, or compliment one another.

Although we work in different media, it became clear early on that the history of the materials, and that the relationship between irony and sincerity were tools that we each use as starting points for larger conversations. Finding similarities and differences has opened up a whole new series of questions about the work each of us makes and how we make it."

- Casey + Mark

Red Herring, my new solo show will be on view in Gallery 115 at the University of Central Missouri from Jan. 9, 2017- Mar. 9, 2017

Opening Reception: Jan. 11, 3-5pm
Artist Talk: Jan. 11, 2017 at 3pm

Red Herring

The term “red herring” is personal for me. In my studio practice, it is the constant push and pull between my use of the ceramic material and recognizing that this practice is at odds with my desire to minimize my environmental impact. It is the allure of drippy glazes and fingerprints that give me great joy, capture my imagination, and yet become fossilized proof of my own complicity in land, water and energy policies that are unsustainable.

It is historical—I grew up on a river near the coast of Maine. The history of the herring, in many ways, ties together the social, environmental and economic history of Maine. It is a resource that has been harvested from the rivers and ocean by Native Americans and European settlers alike. The abundance of herring and developments in net fishing techniques, its use as food, fertilizer and bait, make herring a versatile resource. With modern industrialized fishing, the dwindling herring populations are a key factor in debates on the management of the fishing industry and aquatic ecosystems. Thus, the herring is not just an emblem of historical significance, but also a player in contemporary politics as well.

On the surface, Red Herring reads as an imaginative landscape with playful sensibilities that distracts from a larger narrative of loss. I worry that the example of the herring in Maine is akin to the unfolding story of climate crisis that is being faced in communities throughout the world. Red Herring points here, there, and everywhere, looking for simple explanations to complex problems.



Gallery Hours:
Mon - Fri 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Thursday 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Saturday Noon to 4 p.m.

Phone: 660-543-4498

Gallery Address:
Gallery of Art & Design
University of Central Missouri
217 Clark Street
Warrensburg, MO 64093

For more information: www.ucmo.edu/gallery

Hope to see you there!

“Though only a fraction of the unique tallgrass ecosystem remains, the prairie has been instrumental in constructing a narrative and identity of the North American Midwest. The goal of this residency program is to spread awareness of the prairie as an ecosystem worth protecting by inviting artists from diverse communities to contribute their voices to a conversation about place.”

Throughout the spring and summer, each artist has completed a two week residency in the Flint Hills engaging with the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve and lodging in Matfield Green. The artists will be presenting their work and experiences at a public symposium in Manhattan before migrating down to Matfield Green for an evening opening of the exhibition.

Artist Symposium

Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art
Manhattan, KS
October 1, 9:00am – 2:00pm

Participating Artists

Lisa Grossman, painting
Lexi Janezic, book arts
Brittany Irle, digital media
Casey Whittier, sculpture & ceramics
Amanda Maciuba, printmaking & book arts
Julie Nocent-Vigil, mixed media
Ahram Park, photography
Rachel Kauff, printmaking, sculpture & installation
Mary Gordon, painting & printmaking
Richard Saxton / M12 Studio, community practice

Visit: tallgrassart.wordpress.com

Inapt

A glance at the history of the idea will show you still better what pragmatism means. The term is derived from the same Greek word [pi rho alpha gamma mu alpha], meaning action, from which our words 'practice' and 'practical' come. It was first introduced into philosophy by Mr. Charles Peirce in 1878. In an article entitled 'How to Make Our Ideas Clear,' in the 'Popular Science Monthly' for January of that year, Mr. Peirce, after pointing out that our beliefs are really rules for action, said that to develop a thought's meaning, we need only determine what conduct it is fitted to produce: that conduct is for us its sole significance…

To attain perfect clearness in our thoughts of an object, then, we need only consider what conceivable effects of a practical kind the object may involve—what sensations we are to expect from it, and what reactions we must prepare. Our conception of these effects, whether immediate or remote, is then for us the whole of our conception of the object, so far as that conception has positive significance at all.
William James
Pragmatism: A New Name For Some Old Ways of Thinking


Building off the early 20th century lectures of philosopher William James and my own longstanding, albeit rudimentary, understanding of “pragmatism”, Inapt explores the complicated relationship between materiality, function and the symbolic nature of objects. A hastily assembled dolly, fragments of a rowboat, ceramic curtains….each element equipped with a sense of failure and a sense of belonging. Bordering on the nonsensical, Inapt is as much about beauty and humor as it is about a need to assess and organize the world around us in relation to practicality and desire.

Plenum is located at 504 E. 18th Street in Kansas City, MO.


Hope to see you there!

Now & Then opens this Saturday (March 12, 2016) at the Kansas City Museum!

NCECA reception to be held Friday March 18, 2016
5:30-7:00pm

This show features the following faculty and alumni from CU Boulder's MFA program:
Scott Chamberlin
Kim Dickey
Rachel Eng
Kelcy Chase Folsom
Julia Galloway
Blanca Guerra
Josh Hebbert
Janice Jakielski
Stephanie Kantor
Linda Lopez
Mathew McConnell
Joanna Powell
Alia Pialtos
Jeanne Quinn
Annie Strader
Casey Whittier
Emily Schroeder Willis

The Kansas City Museum is a beaux arts mansion located at:
3218 Gladstone Blvd. Kansas City, MO 64123

The museum is open form 10-4pm Wednesday to Saturday.
For more information: www.kansascitymuseum.org

Continuous Exchange
February 28 – April 17, 2016

Public Opening:
Sunday, February 28, 1-4 p.m., Artist Talk: 2 p.m

Featured Artists:
Nathan Craven, Margaret Kinkeade, and Casey Whittier

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Friday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m., Sunday, 1-4 p.m

The Epsten Gallery is located within Village Shalom at 5500 W 123rd St, Leawood, KS 66209

This exhibition features three site-specific installations, reflecting upon traditions of making, community experience, nature, time, and place.

I am so excited about the work in this show and I hope to see you there!

I am excited to be debuting a new installation, In Case I Need You Again Someday, at the Belger Arts Center (2100 Walnut St, KC MO). This group exhibition is sure to be a treat! Here's a sneak peak.

Garden Party runs from Feb. 5th, 2016 to August 6, 2016.

Opening reception for NCECA Conference: March 17, 2016 6:00-9:00pm

The Belger Arts Center is open Wednesday-Friday 10am-4pm and Saturdays from 12-4pm.

Bonus: There are four other fabulous exhibitions at the Belger that are open for NCECA!
Hope to see you there!

I've been working diligently on developing and expanding my Palm Petals Project for future iterations.

I will be giving a presentation about this project, the community building that it offers, and why it is important to me to work outside of the traditional art studio on Dec. 9th. There is a very talented and passionate group of Artist Inc. fellows that have all been working to create new art initiatives in and around KC that will be presenting that night. If you are in the Kansas City area, I would love to see you there.

AIA KC
1801 McGee, KC MO

Hi All,

I have two small works included in Contents May Vary at Pewabic in Detroit. The show features works under 6" x 6" x 6" and was curated by Heather Mae Erickson.

Pewabic is located at 10125 E Jefferson Ave, Detroit, MI.

Hours are Monday-Saturday 10-6pm and Sunday 12-4pm.

A new solo show is up at Cottey College in Nevada, MO.

The P.E.O. Foundation Art Gallery is located in the Haidee and Allen Wild Center for the Arts, 1000 W. Austin Blvd. Nevada, MO 64772

Please join me and 23 of my new best art friends from all over the KC Metro for 5 minute presentations about our work and all of the great things we do.

Monday, April 27
6:30 PM
Doors open at 6PM

AIA Kansas City
1801 McGee, KCMO, 64108

Current Perspectives Lecture Series at the Kansas City Art Institute

This Thursday, 4/23/15, at 7 p.m. in Epperson Auditorium:
Casey Whittier

Artist Casey Whittier grew up in Maine and received a B.F.A. degree from the Kansas City Art Institute in ceramics and an M.F.A. degree from the University of Colorado. Through intimate sculptures and large-scale installations, her work often addresses issues of scale and space in relationship to the human body. She currently teaches at Johnson County Community College, Park University and KCAI.

Epperson Auditorium is in Vanderslice Hall.

Hope to see you there!

I'm getting excited about an upcoming group show at www.hyper-link.org Hyperlink|.

April of 2015 will feature artists: Judith Mullen, Emily Moorehead, Joseph Kraft, Ashely Williams, Rachel Eng, Jessica Taylor Caponigro and myself. Kathryn Wingard is helping to make all of this possible.

Hi All,

I've got some work in a group exhibition around the theme of "Home" at the Johnson County Central Resource Library in Overland Park, KS.

In addition, students from my KCAI Social Practice/Ceramics Course on Place have work up at the Cedar Roe Library in Mission, KS.

Work will be up through January of 2015.


Also, we've got some amazing shows through 2015 at HyperLink Gallery in Chicago. Please check out our website or find us on Facebook.
www.hyper-link.org

Excerpts from Imaginary Landscapes opening Friday Oct. 3, 2014.

Please join Karin Davis and I at Vulpes Bastille (1737 Locust St KC MO) in the east crossroads for the opening reception of our new exhibition from 6-9pm.

The gallery will be open Saturdays 12-5 until Oct. 25, 2014.

Hope to see you there!

Aug 1- Sept 27, 2014

LUX Center for the Arts, Lincoln Nebraska
Folsom Gallery

Please stop by and check out the new work!

The opening of my show, Material Translations and the Memory of Things is June 26, 2014 from 6-9pm.

The Hown's Den is located at 2024 Esterly Ave in Kansas City, KS. (Rosedale/39th St neighborhood).

I am so excited to share this work in such a unique and important setting. Please come by, eat some food, let me know what you think and enjoy the show!

(Although some of the work will be up after the opening, there are a couple pieces that are temporal and are meant to be for opening night only)

www.thehownsden.com for more information on this space and the curatorial mission of The Hown's Den.

Excited to be part of an amazing project that Frank Juarez Gallery and Graymatter Gallery have put together.

Please check out my feature by visiting www.365artists365days.com.

As the title suggests, they are choosing one artist a day to feature for an entire year. You can subscribe to their blog and like them on Facebook!

Inaugural Address is up at Gallery W in Pittsfield, MA.

Hours are Wednesday-Friday 4-7, Sat 12-5.

Up for the whole month of April, 2014!

For anyone who is in the Kansas City Area:

I will have a piece in the Art at the Center show that opens on April 4th at 5:30pm. There is a juror's lecture on April 3rd at 730pm for anyone who is interested.

This gallery is managed by the city and located at 11902 Lowell Ave. (119th & Lowell) in Overland Park.

Check it out!

Hey All,

I'm super excited to have this interview published…and to have one of my images chosen for the cover. I love this online magazine because it features so many different artists and because I think artist interviews are fascinating. Please check it out when you have a chance.

Here is the link to the whole publication:
LandescapeJan2014

Or if you just want to read my section:
CaseyWhittierLE2014

Please feel free to share this link…or to start conversations with me through the contact me link on this page!

Happy New Year!

Plug Project Critiques tonight! 6pm….I will have new finished and almost finished work there. Come talk art.

Getting ready to DIY my studio basement. This will allow me to photograph some of the work I have been making over the past year and update my work folders. Thanks for the patience. I will be laboring over lumber on labor day, so have an extra drink and some sweets for me while you all relax with friends and family!

LUX Center for the Arts in Lincoln, NE will be holding it's DeLUX Art Gala on Sept. 22, 2013.
Check it out at http://luxcenter.org/featured/2013-gala-info/
You can buy tickets, see what they will be auctioning off and..there is a nice black and white shadow box that could find its way into your home. Whatever you chose to bid on it will go to keeping the LUX Center open for business.

Opening Friday, Feb. 3 @ 5pm. Come see a piece of my work alongside a diverse group of Denver-area artists.

Hope to see you there!

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