MUD, a Reclamation Through Clay March 6 – March 28, 2026 Group Exhibition by First Female A Program of Women’s Art Week Palm Beach Curated by Gaby Viteri Featured Artists: Heather Couch, Amaya Estrada, Lani Goodrich, Autumn Kioti Horne, Rose Gong Munier, Andrea Pertnoy, Melissa Del Prette, Gaby Viteri. MUD is a ceramics exhibition centered on reclaiming the self through material and physical engagement. Situated within the broader theme of Reclamation, the exhibition considers clay as both medium and method. It’s tactile, volatile, and resistant to control. Clay records pressure, collapse, revision, and time. It remembers the weight of the hand and the repetition of labor. In working with mud, the artist enters a physical negotiation with material intelligence, one shaped by gravity, moisture, heat, endurance, and chance. The nuance is that reclamation here is not about recovery or resolution, but about the creative act as a way of returning. The result is secondary to the act of reclaiming. Clay holds what has been deferred, fragmented, or suppressed, not to correct it, but to remember and transmute it. The “messy” is not erased; it’s tended to through effort, attention, and time. The works in MUD approach healing as an embodied practice. Return occurs through repetition, fatigue, failure, and recalibration. Through the creative act, the maker repetitively returns to the present moment, to the body, and to attention. That repetition functions as a form of meditation that is not escapist, but grounding. MUD frames ceramics as a site for reclaiming, where feeling moves through form and uncertainty becomes generative. It asks how art steadies, reorients, and reintroduces us to ourselves, quietly, materially, and through the body. MORE INFORMATION ON WOMEN’S ART WEEK Women’s Art Week Palm Beach (WAWPB) is a county-wide cultural initiative celebrating women artists and women-owned creative businesses through exhibitions, public programs, and community partnerships across Palm Beach County. Click here for WAWPB Events Schedule
