In the Waage Gallery, ceramic relief sculptures by Battle Lake artist John Shaw will be showcased in a solo exhibit titled, “Things I’ve Made.” The sculptures are part of an exploratory series Shaw has been working on recently, exploring the nature of clay. Shaw is a former student of the M State ceramics program.

“Clay can be formed, compressed, and controlled, as well as stretched, broken, and set free,” he writes in his artist statement. “I’m fascinated by the fact that when this stuff is transformed by fire from ‘dirt’ to ‘glass,’ that moment of making becomes fixed. This feels a bit like freezing time.”