Touching Earth: Women Creating Communities

This week is the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts conference in Pittsburgh, and the exhibits are in full swing. Just be careful not to break them. Tonight is the reception for Touching Earth: Women Creating Communities, at the Carnegie Coffee Company. Conveniently located on the NCECA shuttle-bus route, the exhibit follows the conference theme of “CrossCurrents: Clay and Culture.” Featuring artists with a variety of personal identities and connections to Pittsburgh and the ceramic arts, Touching Earth aims to set aside difference in ideologies, backgrounds and religion, and unite through the empowerment that comes with being female artists. - Lauren Ortega