Saturday, April 18, 2026
1:30–4:30 PM
Annie Alarcón Workshop: Forming Devotion
Create forms to lay the words inscribed in your daily rituals. Join us for a writing in ceramics workshop where you will textually explore how to shape devotion.
Facilitated by Annie Alarcón and Ana Villalpando.
Sliding-scale materials fee: $20–50 ($20 minimum)
All materials included.
In this exhibition, Annie Alarcón presents a body of ceramic sculptures that move between vessel, body, and offering. Rooted in personal writings, sketches, and ritual practice, the works trace an intimate emotional landscape shaped by memory, grief, and care. Drawing inspiration from ancient Greek perfume bottles, Alarcón treats the vessel as a keeper of the intangible, holding what is invisible, fleeting, and impossible to fully contain.
Perfume becomes a guiding metaphor: a presence that lingers without form, deeply personal yet shared through ritual. Alarcón’s porcelain sculptures echo this tension. Their translucent surfaces are engraved with fragments of memory and emotion, bearing the marks of a process that is both deliberate and devotional. Some forms stand firmly, others appear precarious, reflecting the unstable ground of emotional experience and the effort required to tend to it.
Influenced by the teachings of artisan mentors, Alarcón uses traditional ceramic forms as a language through which to explore contemporary inner states. Her vessels do not aim to resolve or stabilize what they hold. Instead, they offer a space for witnessing, for slowing down and acknowledging what we carry.
Together, these works invite viewers into a quiet encounter with fragility, ritual, and the act of care itself.
The event will be in person at the Athenaeum Art Center in Logan Heights. There are no physical tickets for this event. Your name will be on the attendee list at the front door. Doors open at 1:30 p.m.
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