Meet New Resident Artists and Studio Tech + More!

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New 2024-2025 Foundation Resident Artists

Top (left to right): Lucky Moe, Allyson George, Joel Pisowicz; Bottom (left to right): Hannah Schelb, Logan Reynolds, and Warren VanRyzin.

We are pleased to introduce Belger Arts’ 2024-2025 Foundation Resident Artists: Allyson George, Lucky Moe, Joel Pisowicz (returning), Logan Reynolds (returning), Hannah Schelb, and Warren VanRyzin.

We look forward to seeing the results of their time in our studios and interactions with the Belger Arts community and the community at large.

For decades the Artist in Residence program has welcomed artists from across the country and around the world. Learn about current and previous resident artists by visiting our website’s Artists in Residence page. For information about the program and how to apply please visit the Residency Programs page.

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Introducing Stephen Homer

Belger Arts is pleased to welcome Studio Technician Stephen Homer! Homer works closely with the Studio Manager in the upkeep and operations of the ceramics studios and assists with the preparation of educational programs. He's also a ceramics instructor currently teaching wheel throwing and handbuilding classes.

Homer received his BFA in ceramics from the Kansas City Art Institute, and lives in the Kansas City area. He grew up in Columbus, OH on four acres surrounded by fields, trees, and ample gardening space. He enjoyed playing in the dirt and with plants, creating small gardens in rain puddles at the end of the driveway, building things from found old wood and rusty hardware, propagating and caring for all manner of plants, keeping aquariums and all sorts of pets, all of which influence his work today. Learn more about Stephen and his work by visiting his website.

Welcome aboard, Stephen!

Momoko Usami: Digital Debut

Closes Soon

Left: Momoko Usami. Image courtesy of the artist. Right: Momoko Usami, Medicine Box (Sheep), 2024. Cone 6 Porcelain, mirror bend, and copper. Photo by Belger Arts.

Digital Debut artist Momoko Usami plays with movement in her work--scrolled boxes that require a turn by the viewer to reveal more, or a bud vase that hinges open to accept a flower. Usami states, “My role as an artist is to enrich a person’s everyday life by being able to touch and feel my work, and by discovering fresh views through it.”

Momoko Usami received a BFA and MFA from Kyoto City University of Art in Kyoto, Japan. She currently works out of her personal studio in rural Missouri near Kansas City where she teaches small art classes for the community.

Usami’s work will be available for purchase online and at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery through September 28, 2024.

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September Mug of the Month

Our September Mug of the Month artist Joseph Rincones thinks of clay as a poetic material that ". . . possesses the ability to look soft but be extremely hard, or look hard yet feel extremely soft.” His elegant mugs, reminiscent of tufted fabrics, exemplify this phenomenon.

Rincones was born and raised in Southeast Kansas where he was introduced to clay at Garden City Community College. He has since received a BFA in ceramics from Wichita State University. He continues to live and work in Wichita where he is an active member of the ceramics community, teaching classes at Derby Rec Center and City Arts.

Purchase his mugs online or at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery through September 30.

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Next month's "Mugs of the Month" are by glass artist Keegan O'Brien and will be on view and available for purchase on October 1.

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