Hillary Kane Artist Lecture

Join us for a free lecture with ceramic artist Hillary Kane. This lecture will be held in-person with a Zoom option. 

For Hillary Kane, place is of essence. Over the years, the map coordinates of home have shifted across countries and continents and delivered a richness in languages and cultures, inspiration and challenges that permeate her creative practice. Originally having studied painting and printmaking, it was her work with local farmers in a remote village in west Cameroon that triggered a gut-pull to the medium of clay.  An immersion at Penland School of Crafts solidified this interest and subsequent experiences from New England to New Mexico initiated and strengthened her passion for wood-firing in particular.  

Many firings later, the tidal pull of the world led her ultimately from Japan to Bali, Indonesia where in 2010, she co-founded Gaya Ceramic Arts Center (Ubud, Bali) and has since been directing its growth: developing an international workshop program and artist residency, hosting as well as instructing, and ever continuing with the making process.  She focuses her creativity in both clay and paint, enjoying the dynamic of two very different mediums and their possible confluence. Wood and soda-fired ceramics has dominated her practice and led her to numerous residencies and conferences globally, as well as to pioneer the building of several such kilns in Bali.  

Central to her creative life has been the journey of raising her twin daughters. At very present, she lives a bi-hemispheric lifestyle, splitting time between the lush and heady tropical backdrop of her island life and the cyclical seasons of her New England upbringing-- embracing the duality of home in two disparate worlds; searching with her artwork for a fluency between them.