Meyers Gallery Current Exhibit
Material Witness
Works by Baylee Schmit, Sara Torgison, Josie Roebuck and James Webb!
June 3rd - August 9th 2026
This exhibition explores the relationships these artists have with materials, storytelling, cultural history, history of production, professional practice, and personal histories; all while holding traditional notions of clay and textile production at arm’s length.
Clay and fiber are among the first materials alongside flint and stone used to fashion the earliest instruments and crude tools to assist humans with basic chores. Over time more sophisticated techniques were developed for processing these materials, as well as design improvements for function, ornamentation, and decorative motifs shaping identity. Long since these humble beginnings the materials have continued this path, with ever more sophisticated techniques for production and ornamentation while still often rooted in function and purpose.
These artists have deliberately sought to find and explore new approaches and applications for these historied materials and techniques. This approach leverages and honors the past, while also breaking from the traditional notions of textile and clay fabrication and use. The works in this exhibition seek to invert these practices by focusing on the communicative aspects while subverting the utilitarian purposes. These artists remain tenuously tethered to traditional production but have individually sought to free themselves of expectation. Replace with your text
Church St. Window
2024
crochet with yarn, wire, poly-fil
24 x 52 in
Cinderella Sweater
2024
crochet with yarn, wire
20 x 14 in
Polka Dot Bed: Sea Star Birthday
2023
crochet with yarn, wire
24 x 52 in
Church St. Window
2024
crochet with yarn, wire, poly-fil
24 x 52 in
Refrigerator & Stove with Hot Burner
2022 & 2023
crochet with yarn, wire, Poly-fil
Shadow Dog (Rocko)
2025
secondhand quilt top, batting, thread, crochet and knit with yarn, wire
52 x 25 in
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Shadow Girl
2024
secondhand quilt top, batting, denim, thread, crochet and knit with yarn
55 x 34 in
Sleeping Beauty Sweater
2024
crochet with yarn, wire
21 x 15 in
The Girls, Unit of Three
2022
secondhand quilt top, yarn, wire,
Poly-fil
20 x 14 in
Bifurcated Consequences
2024
ceramic stoneware, glaze
28 x 33 x 14 in
Bloodroot Quilt
2025
plant-dyed cotton, fabric paint, thread
20 x 18 in
Lamb
2024
ceramic stoneware, glaze
24 x 13 x 13 in
Lucky Sheep Feet in Black
2024
soda fired stoneware, glaze, acorn and iron dyed wool yarn
17 x 7 x 2 in
Lucky Sheep Feet in Green
2024
soda fired stoneware, glaze, acorn and iron dyed wool yarn
17 x 7 x 2 in
Lucky Sheep Feet in Red
2024
soda fired stoneware, glaze, acorn and iron dyed wool yarn
17 x 7 x 2 in
Sticks and Stones, Sheep
2024
soda fired ceramic stoneware, glaze
86 x 40 x 70 in
Sticks and Stones, Skeleton
2024
ceramic stoneware, glaze, knit wool yarn stuffed with raw wool
42 x 36 x 22 in
Preydator
2023
ceramic stoneware, glaze, knit wool yarn stuffed with raw wool
17 x 12 x 12 in
Midwest Materia Medica - Childbirth
2025
ceramic stoneware, glaze, yarn dyed with madder root, quilted recycled clothing
42 x 40 x 4 in
Daffodil
2024
acrylic, screenprint ink, tassel trim, screenprint, upcycled trim tassels, upcycled fabric, yarn, fabric
46 x 28 in
Field Full of Blossoms
2023
screenprint ink, upcycled fabric, fabric, childhood hair ribbon, wooden beads, yarn, upcycled lace, oil pastel
68 ½ x 72 in
We Are Blood IV
2022
screenprint ink, oil pastel, fabric, upcycled fabric, wood cutout
17 x 14 in
Deserving I
2022
oil pastel, yarn, screenprint ink, fabric, upcycled fabric, on a wood cutout
35 x 14 in
We Can Grow or Wither
2024
screenprint ink, screenprint, upcycled fabric, upcycled tassel trim, upcycled trim, upcycled fabric, vintage hands, vintage candle fixture, vintage doilies, soft pastel, fabric, yarn
96 x 49 in
Black Walnut and Gold Buttoned Crackling Cushion Teapot
2026
porcelain with gold
11 ½ x 9 x 7 ½ in
Country White and Seam-Folded Silver and Gold Teapot
2024
porcelain with gold
10 ½ x 9 ½ x 6 ½ in
Wasabi Green and Black Stained Teapot with Gold
2021
stoneware with gold
12 ½ x 11 x 7 in
Light Blue Lidded Jar with Gold
2024
porcelain with gold
7 ½ x 7 x 6 ½ in
Spring Green Lidded Jar with Gold
2024
porcelain with gold
7 ½ x 7 x 6 ½ in
Bronze and Crackled Cushioned Teapot
2024
stoneware
8 x 8 x 7 in
Large Vintage Country White Dinner Plate Set of Four with Gold
2024
stoneware with gold
10 ¾ x 10 ¾ x 1 ¾ in (each)
About Meyers Gallery
The Philip M. Meyers Jr. Memorial Gallery is located in the Steger Student Life Center in the heart of the University’s Main Street. Situated across from the recreation center and the Tangeman Student Center, we are located in the hub of student life and bring visual culture and practice to the university at large as well as to the surrounding region. The Meyers Gallery exhibitions address two main objectives: first, to expose the wider university community to the practices within DAAP; and second, to present exhibitions that address the practices of other colleges within the university, generally historic or scientific in focus. The intention is to provide the university population with access to a greater understanding of the visual presentation of complex ideas and concepts.
The Meyers Gallery is staffed by current students in order to provide them with a range of knowledge and understanding of exhibition techniques and practices. This experience provides student artists, art historians, and art educators a setting in which to explore and implement the theories and concepts of their academic and studio practices into a working setting. DAAP Galleries employees are equipped with the necessary skills to present and discuss a variety of visual materials with a broad audience, enabling them to better articulate the visual communication of complex ideas and foster a better understanding of visual communication.
Planning Your Visit
The Meyers Gallery
Hours: Sunday - Thursday 10am-5pm
Phone: 513-556-3088
Address: Room 418 (Ground Floor), Steger Student Life Center, 500 UC MainStreet, Cincinnati, OH 45221
Location and visiting instructions for the Meyers Gallery:
- When visiting the Meyers Gallery, metered parking is located on Martin Luther King Dr. or in the Woodside or Campus Green Garages for an hourly fee.
- Enter campus from either MLK or the garages walk along Woodside Dr. past the new College of Business, and continue up the hill following the paver drive (UC Main Street).
- The Meyers Gallery is located halfway up the hill on the right-hand side in the Steger Student Life Center on the ground floor, directly across from Nippert Stadium.
Directions: From ML King enter Woodside Dr. (Langsam Library) for Woodside Garage (accepts cash or credit). Walk up UC Main Street to the Steger Student Life Center. Gallery is on the right across from Nippert Stadium, see neon sign.
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