Opening Reception: Between Starshine and Clay

Celebrate the opening of this new contemporary art exhibition with music, food from a food truck, a cash bar, and honoring our featured artist Osa Atoe and Kaabo Clay Collective.

Admission, to this event is FREE! However, donations of any size are gratefully accepted with your order or at the event, in order to support our many free community programs.

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About the Exhibition:

Clay contains memories. It holds the impression of hands, the memory of fire, and the knowledge passed from one generation to the next without always being written down.

Between Starshine and Clay: Ceramics Across Diaspora, Land, and Lineage opens the 2027 season at the Art & History Museums of Maitland with a major exhibition exploring the enduring legacy of African and African American ceramics through contemporary studio practice. Rooted in themes of diaspora, memory, land, and shared cultural tradition, the exhibition brings together the work of artist Osa Atoe and the Kaabo Clay Collective in a conversation that moves across continents, centuries, and communities.

Between Starshine and Clay offers a significant contribution to Florida's cultural landscape and to the broader history of Black ceramics in the United States, providing a reminder that the knowledge carried in clay is older, and more resilient, than any single tradition.