ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

North Adams, MA —

More details coming soon.

ARE WE THERE YET? is a celebration of Ferrin Contemporary’s 40 + years as leaders in the field of modern and contemporary ceramics. What began in 1979 as a woman-owned cooperative studio and gallery in Northampton, MA* has flourished across the years and the locations to become the international ceramic experts and material champions known as Ferrin Contemporary. 

In our four decades working primarily with artists whose medium is clay, we’ve worked with hundreds of artists in curated survey exhibitions and solo shows. Thousands of objects have passed through our hands from emerging artists, pioneers in the studio craft movement, masters of figural sculpture, and well known abstractionists. The gallery’s commitment to providing support for living artists led to decades long relationships with artists whose works explore traditions and history, deliver social commentary, experiment with the material and use the medium to challenge themselves to produce new works.   

This summer, as we enter our fifth decade, we are taking time to reflect on the past forty years. This celebration is taking many forms over the coming months but our primary focus is presenting new work from some of our core artists in a survey titled ARE WE THERE YET? The title is after our 2007 pair of summer exhibitions titled WE ARE HERE / WE WERE THERE when the gallery opened on North Street in Pittsfield. In 2014 the gallery moved to the MASS MoCA campus in North Adams, MA. The exhibition asks us and the artists we represent to reflect on the road we’ve taken and invites the public to join the dialog while we speculate about the future. 

Current Gallery Projects Installation, 2023, featuring work by artist