Exhibitions on View: July 5 – August 23, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 12, 2025 | 6:00 – 8:00 pm
BALTIMORE, MD – Baltimore Clayworks is proud to announce the opening of three powerful exhibitions this summer: Conscientious Objectification by Lormina Salter Fellow Kristyn Rohrer, Shape, Shift & Mend by EMBARC Fellow Kashima Robinson, and the Community Arts Summer Showcase. These exhibitions, on view from July 5 through August 23, 2025, celebrate the intersection of ceramic artistry with personal identity, social commentary, and community expression. Join us for an Opening Reception on Saturday, July 12 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm to meet the artists and experience their compelling work.
Conscientious Objectification
Kristyn Rohrer (they/she), 2024–25 Lormina Salter Fellow
In their solo exhibition, ceramic sculptor Kristyn Rohrer draws from their Mennonite upbringing to explore themes of cultural inheritance, queerness, identity, and resistance. Through sculptural forms inspired by Pennsylvania Dutch folk art, Islamic architecture, and personal narrative, Conscientious Objectification interrogates the meaning of conscientious objection – not just in wartime, but against modern-day systems of oppression and conformity. The exhibition invites viewers to consider: What does it mean to resist in today’s America? What could it look like to be a modern Mennonite?
Shape, Shift & Mend
Kashima Robinson (she/they), 2024–25 EMBARC Fellow
Baltimore-based artist Kashima Robinson presents a body of work that explores the fluid space between defined forms. Utilizing ceramic mosaics, tiles, and abstract containers, Robinson’s work reflects personal moments of self-discovery, ambiguity, and transformation. Shape, Shift & Mend is a meditation on change, on the beauty of in-between states, and a testament to ceramics as a tool for introspection and narrative construction. Robinson’s practice challenges perception and encourages audiences to dwell in spaces of uncertainty and emergence.
Community Arts Summer Showcase
A celebration of creativity across Baltimore, the Community Arts Summer Showcase features work by participants and instructors from Baltimore Clayworks’ community arts programs. From youth to older adults, these artists demonstrate the power of clay to build confidence, forge connections, and inspire imagination. This vibrant, inclusive exhibition affirms the belief that art belongs to everyone and reflects the heart of Baltimore Clayworks’ mission.
About Baltimore Clayworks (BCW)
Recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, BCW was founded by nine artists in 1980. Our mission is to develop, sustain, and promote an artist-centered community that provides outstanding educational, residency, and collaborative programs in the ceramic arts. We offer classes and workshops for adults and children, host short and long-term residencies for emerging artists, present rotating exhibitions along with a retail shop featuring the work of local and internationally recognized ceramicists, and BCW utilizes the universal medium of clay to engage under-resourced communities in and around Baltimore.