Editor’s note: The date of the Sarah Pike public presentation has changed from March 6 to March 7, 2025, at 7 p.m. Weather impacted the artist’s flight plans and the date had to be changed.
The Huntington Museum of Art will showcase the exhibit titled Walter Gropius Master Artist Program Presents Sarah Pike from Dec. 14, 2024, through March 30, 2025.
HMA will welcome Pike to Huntington in March 2025 when the artist will speak about her work in a free public presentation on March 6, 2025, at 7 p.m. (Please note the presentation date has changed to March 7, 2025, at 7 p.m.)
Pike will present a three-day workshop titled “Tessellation, Texture and the Slab-built Form” at HMA on March 7-9, 2025, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. For workshop fee information, visit hmoa.org or call (304) 529-2701.
Pike is a full-time potter who lives in Fernie, a small mountain town in British Columbia, Canada, which is the traditional territory of the indigenous Ktunaxa people. Pike earned a BFA with distinction from the Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, in 1998. She continued to study ceramics at the University of Colorado and the University of Minnesota.
In addition to making functional, slab-built wares, Pike is interested in creating stamps and texture tools, which she presses into soft clay. She teaches her techniques in ceramics workshops around the world. She also exhibits internationally with recent solo exhibitions at Akar Gallery, Iowa; Good Earth Gallery, Washington; and Schaller Gallery, Michigan. She is a proud member of Make & Do, a volunteer-run collective that promotes talented, passionate, and diverse ceramic artists working across Canada.
Pike is inspired by the beautiful landscape around her home and the rich, worldwide history of pottery, but also antique tinware, textured metal, interesting fabric patterns, and the old things you might find in barns. Lately, she is obsessing over the ogee curve and how it tessellates across a form. Her studio is her natural habitat, but if she is not making pots, she is probably exploring the mountains by ski or bike. She is generally thinking about snacks.
This program is presented by the Booth Foundation in memory of Dr. Alex Booth Jr. and Katherine Booth.
This exhibit is presented with support from the City of Huntington Mayor’s Council for the Arts.
This exhibit is presented with support from The Isabelle Gwynn and Robert Daine Exhibition Endowment.
This program is presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
For more information about this exhibit, which will be on a break during much of February 2025, visit hmoa.org or call (304) 529-2701. HMA is fully accessible.
West Virginia residents may obtain a summary of the registration and financial documents from the Secretary of State, State Capitol, Charleston, WV 25305. Registration does not imply endorsement.