The CU Art Museum at the University of Colorado Boulder will host 'Shaping Time: CU Ceramics Alumni 2000–2020,' an exhibition opening September 5, 2025, celebrating the ceramics program's legacy. The show features works by alumni from the past two decades, curated by faculty Jeanne Quinn, Scott Chamberlin, and Kim Dickey, who have taught together for 25 years. The exhibition explores themes of environment, domesticity, and material meaning, and includes a symposium on September 5.
The exhibition matters because it highlights CU Boulder's long-standing investment in ceramics, a program shaped by influential artist Betty Woodman, who taught there for 30 years and was the first living female ceramicist to have a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. By showcasing alumni achievements, the show underscores the program's role in fostering technical mastery and artistic innovation, reinforcing ceramics as a vital medium with deep historical and metaphorical resonance.