“I was actually able to make the original plaster positive at Anderson Ranch. The original plaster mold was CNC milled and then I press molded the individual tiles,” she said. “It’s a wall piece made up of a grid of porcelain and terra cotta tiles. Tete’s first piece in the exhibition is titled “Where the Present Ends and the Shadows Begin.” There’s great diversity in the type of work being shown.” “It’s exciting to see what peers in the field are making.
Getting into the show is highly competitive,” she said. “This exhibition is really important because it’s hosted during the biggest conference that there is for ceramics in the world. I’m not surprised that she’s beginning to attract national attention.”įor Tete, this is her third appearance in the student exhibition, but her first time as a graduate student. She has a good eye for composition and her pieces have an intriguing individuality. “Her work is very contemporary, exploring vessel forms, as well as the environments surrounding them. “She’s good natured, talented, works hard, listens to our feedback and has developed an engaging voice as an artist,” he said. Professor of Art Peter Pinnell said Tete has been an ideal graduate student. The School of Art, Art History & Design’s graduate ceramics program was tied for #9 in the most recent US News & World Report rankings for Best Ceramics Programs. We’re a great program, so I want us to be out there and for people to know that we are in the top 10 ceramics MFA programs.” “I’m really happy and excited to represent UNL at the student show. “Of course I was surprised,” Tete said of her reaction to learning that two of her pieces were selected. Only 34 pieces by 32 artists were selected for the exhibition, out of more than 530 works that were entered. Iren Tete, a third-year Master of Fine Arts in ceramics student in the School of Art, Art History & Design, had two of her works accepted into the 2019 National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Juried Student Exhibition to be held at the Soo Visual Arts Center March 25-April 20, 2019, in conjunction with the NCECA annual conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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