Ball Snake Ball  references a set of instructions that an individual foraging clay from a riverbank might follow. Approximately 80 percent of the earth’s land surface contains clay, and as a rule of thumb, if clay pulled from the ground can be hand rolled into a ball, and then a snake, and back into a ball, it is optimally malleable. This exhibition brings together work by six conceptually-driven ceramicists who collaborate with clay to bring awareness to environmental justice breaches specific to their hometowns.  Many of the artists incorporate locally sourced clay in their pieces, grounding their work in knowledge of the earth, while exploring histories of extraction, commodification, gentrification, and colonization. Within these studies, questions of inheritance and identity emerge, specifically, who has the power to occupy, use, and develop land. Artists Include: Morel Doucet (Miami, FL), Rachel Eng (Carlisle, PA), Shannon Goff (Detroit, MI), Natalie Kuenzi (Philadelphia, PA), Roberto Lugo (Philadelphia, PA), and Ruben Olguin (Roswell, NM).

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