Artist-Designed Dinner Series

under the pale blue is developing a dinner series centered around artist-designed tableware, shared knowledge, and communion . The project will bring together a group of women and gender-nonconforming artists to create functional ceramic works that will be activated through a communal public dinner with a portion of the proceeds going to a food-access organization. Inspired in part by Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party and its use of the table as a space for representation, storytelling, and gathering, the series considers how a shared meal can become a site for artistic exchange and connection. Each iteration will bring artists together around the table, creating opportunities to share knowledge, learn from one another, and build relationships beyond the exhibition itself. This dinner will have a curatorial theme, which artists will be invited to interpret freely through their own practices and visual languages. Participation Each artist will design a plate and bowl as examples of a full place setting . For the initial dinner, artists will glaze two plates and two bowls in their design, creating two matching place settings. Selected artists will work in collaboration with a ceramic studio that will produce and bisque-fire the plate and bowl forms in advance. Artists will not need to build or bring their own ceramic pieces. Each artist will begin with the same pre-made white clay plate and bowl forms and translate their own practice and visual language onto the surfaces through glazing. Artists will attend one in-person glazing session at the ceramic studio in Jersey City between October 30–November 4 , where glazes, materials, and guidance will be provided. under the pale blue will cover all initial ceramic production, materials, and firing costs. No previous ceramics experience is necessary. The finished works will be presented and activated during a communal dinner in the West Village on November 18 or 19 . One place setting from each artist will be incorporated int