Presenter: Meghen Jones, Associate Professor of Art History and Guest Curator, Path of the Teabowl.
What is a teabowl? How did it become an iconic ceramic art form? Come hear about the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum’s exhibition Path of the Teabowl, from its thousand-year-old bowls that Zen Buddhist monks drank from in China, to contemporary vessels that break new ground in form and concept.

image: Hagi ware teabowl, Japan, 17th century, glazed stoneware and lacquer, 3 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches, Collection of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 2009.016.002 photo : Brian Oglesbee

Harder Hall, Holmes Auditorium, Alfred Univeristy