In 2024, the Capital One Art Program hosted a series of exhibitions titled, “Clay: A New Vocabulary,” coordinated and curated by Dena Rigby, to coincide with the 2024 National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Annual Conference (NCECA). These six solo and group exhibitions took place on their main corporate campus in Richmond, Virgina. These exhibitions considered how artists approach the use of clay with both contemporary and traditional techniques, and express recent changes both personally and as a society after pivotal years of change. This show followed the 2020 Capital One NCECA Exhibitions that were cancelled after installation, due to the national shutdown.
The 2024 exhibits included solo shows by Andréa Keys Connell (Boone, NC) and Adam Paulek (Farmville, VA). Group exhibitions included, “Clay: A New Vocabulary,” “Hitomi and Takuro Shibata: Ambassadors in Clay,” “Ceramic Highlights from the Collection,” and “Potters of the Old Ridge Anagama (curated by Randy Edmonson).”
