This exhibition will be held in conjunction with other ceramics exhibits throughout the state and coincides with this year's National Council on Education for Ceramic Arts (NCECA) annual conference, which will take place March 17-20 in Indianapolis.

Gallery I will feature the works of John Jessiman and Randall Edmonson, who recently exhibited at the Tho Gallery in Seoul, Korea, while works by other Ball State alumni will be displayed in Gallery II.

Jessiman graduated from Ball State in the 1960s and went on to study at the New York College of Ceramics at Alfred University. He then taught for 33 years at the State University of New York at Courtland. 

In 2002, Jessiman founded the Cub Creek Foundation, located near Appomattox, Va., on the grounds of an early 19th-century tobacco plantation. Cub Creek is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the ceramic arts. 

Edmonson is a professor of ceramics at Longwood University in Farmville, Va. He has also been involved with the Cub Creek project.

Several artists' works will also be displayed at Gordy's Fine Arts Gallery at 224 E. Main St. and Mitchell Place Gallery at 301 S. Walnut St. Receptions will be held at 5 p.m. March 11 at each location, and the MITS trolley will be available to shuttle patrons between campus and downtown.

(NOTE TO EDITORS: For more information, contact Judy Wojcik at (765) 285-5844 or at jwojcik@bsu.edu.)