MEETINGS & EVENTS
Membership is required to participate in some events but the regular networking, informal member demos, and fellowship at our monthly meetings will remain free and open to the public.
Greater Austin Clay Artists is excited to announce our new Clay Mixer series! This new meetup series will give us an opportunity to gather and socialize at local community clay studios around Austin. Each meetup will have a theme, but it's primary focus will be for us to just network, have fun, and see our Austin clay studios!
To learn more and see the upcoming schedule of mixers,
visit our Clay Mixers page.
Upcoming Monthly Meetings
GACA Presents: Marc Jeannin
Tuesday, August 4
7:00-9:00pm
St. Edward’s University
Join us for our August meeting as we learn about the innovative and unconventional uses of ceramics in contemporary art!
As always you are invited to join us and our presenting artist for dinner before the meeting at AGBG on Oltorf starting at 5:30.
Ceramics is a ten thousand year old narrative that we are continuing the invigorating conversation. In a modern context ceramics has adapted to emerging technologies and theories where the use of clay surpasses beyond traditional methods. For this GACA meeting I will be giving an artist talk about ceramics within contemporary art. This will be done by introducing different contemporary artwork, artists that make them, theories that inspire, and applications of ceramics used in unconventional and innovative ways. I will show various mixed media pieces, performance art, as well as works I have done. This presentation will open doors and inspire you to think of clay a little bit differently, yet still speak within our exciting and diverse narrative of ceramics.
My work plays with failure and archiving entropy where I fully embrace the unpredictable and absurd. The mediums I work with span from sculpture, performance art, and ceramics. Sculpture works are made with found material and encouraged to change through audience interaction. This interaction can be through their physical interaction with the piece, or the communicative space that they share. Performance work is oftentimes accompanied by sculpture as a means of archiving the sculpture and interaction that goes along with it. My performances become an extension of process with the sculptures being an artifact of the engagement. These performances may also be the archive of the process involved with materials. Performances oftentimes are an embracing of failure, where they may be a portrayal of futile acts to become the art itself. For my ceramic work I enjoy sporadic effects with the process, where a level of unpredictability is at play to truly form the piece. Ceramic works include functional pottery, assemblage sculptures, and tile work. For the firing process, I prefer atmospheric and alternative firings that depict the movement of heat turbulence within the kiln having sporadic yet enigmatic result. Some of my ceramic work has even moved away from the traditional process of pottery making to where I recognize earth as a material to make ephemeral sculptures.
The final product spanning all mediums is about capturing a moment of entropy. It is an embodiment of process, or at least a brief snap to the unfolding of possibility that I can influence upon the materials. These various moments from the conception to the consumption are what my work embodies and embraces.
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You can find Marc's work here:
2026 Meetings/Demonstrations
January 14th - Open House & Supply Exchange
February 3rd - Chance Ramirez: Feel It Out Workshop
March 3rd - Kell Simon: Slip Inlay
April 7th - Hector Kriete: Throwing Off the Hump
April 22 - Special Guest Sue Tirrell: Slab Plate Design
May 5th - Dougherty Arts Center Visual Artists in Residence
June 2nd - Diane Sung: Solid Figure Sculpture
July 7th - Chad Franco: Carving Symmetrical Designs
August 4th - Marc Jeannin: Ceramics in Contemporary Art
September 1st - Empty Bowls
October 6th - TBD
November 3rd - Jenn Hassin:
December - No meeting
Interesting in being a demonstrating artists for one of our meetings?
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Email us with your information, what you would like to demonstrate, and some images of your work.
Meeting Details
GACA has returned to holding our monthly meetings in the Ceramics Studio in the Fine Arts Building at St. Edward's University in 2026.
The Fine Arts Building located at 3001 S Congress. You will need to register your license plate at the following link to park on campus. You can do this prior to arriving, and park in any of the green lots surrounding the building. Use the session code CLAY to access.
https://vpermit.com/stedwards/ClaimableEvents/Claim
The Fine Arts Building is circled in red on the map, with South Congress Ave to the left. You can open Google Maps with directions by clicking the image or going to this link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/o2QPFha7w2jK9v5o6
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Meetings typically start at 7pm with community announcements followed by a demonstration or talk from an area artist.
