This May, students Acacia Nickeo ’27 and Keith Wan ’26 hosted a joint art show in the Grubbs Gallery inside Williston’s Reed Campus Center. Nickeo, a ceramicist, presented her pottery in an exhibition that “explores the relationship between usability and form through ceramic form.” The pieces, often arranged in small, delicate groups, are at once skillful and thoughtful. In her artist statement, Nickeo writes, “Clay carries memory, every touch, pressure, crack and firing leaves behind evidence of transformation.”
Wan’s calligraphy lines the walls of the gallery amidst Nickeo’s pottery. The exhibition, Wan writes, “explores the evolution of Chinese script through five major styles.” The work is gentle and masterful, and makes clear that calligraphy, as Wan writes in his artist statement, “is both the visual beauty of Chinese characters and the trace of time itself.”