Season 1 Trailer

Angelik and Alex are excited to launch Clay in Color featuring weekly episodes on artists that use humor, cuteness and the aesthetics of optimism. Listen in as they talk about the concept of the show and whats to come in season one.

Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy is a New York and Los Angeles-based curator, writer, and arts administrator of contemporary art and craft, focusing on ceramics. Her current research investigates the subversive power of humor, cuteness, and leisure as tools of protest. Amplifying the voices of BIPOC artists is central to her practice. She serves as Assistant Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), New York. Since 2016, she has been part of MAD’s curatorial team, helping organize over twenty exhibitions including 2021's Craft Front & Center. She also oversees MAD’s Burke Prize, a prestigious contemporary craft award. Recently she curated Sleight of Hand (2020) at the Center for Craft, NC, where she was a 2020 curatorial fellow.

Alex Anderson received his Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and Chinese from Swarthmore College and his Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the University of California, Los Angeles. Anderson previously studied at the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute in Jingdezhen, China and was awarded a Fulbright Grant in affiliation with the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, where he continued his studies in ceramic art. His work has been exhibited internationally, and across the US and Southern California, including at Human Resources, Los Angeles, The Long Beach Museum of Art, and American Museum of Ceramic Art.