Quiet Impressions
An Exhibit by Mia Hall

September 25 — October 30, 2023

OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, October 21 at 5:30 PM

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Mia Hall is an Atlanta-based ceramicist and high school art teacher. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in ceramics at the University of Georgia in 2019 and has since she has kept her hands in clay in one form or another, furthering her work and expanding her understanding of her materials.

Mia took an apprenticeship after college at Arts Center West in Roswell, Ga where she eventually taught classes and workshops focusing on both hand built and wheel thrown work. Her first solo show, Groundings, was exhibited at the ACW gallery in 2021. She has been included in multiple group shows in and around Atlanta since. She currently teaches both ceramics and photography at Dacula High School and is working towards a Master’s degree in Art Education at Piedmont University. She is thrilled to exhibit her second solo show, Quiet Impressions, at The Arts Center in Athens, Tennessee.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Mia views each of her works as informal reliquaries, elevating the quiet details that come from the natural environments she finds inspiration in. Whether through direct inclusion of found elements in her figurative sculptures, or imprints of textures in her functional work, she hopes that her forms speak to the complexities of the landscapes around us.

Mia’s creative process is in many ways meant to echo the many natural processes of the earth in a linear and controlled study of heat and pressure, erosion and accumulation, flooding and drying. Keeping her ceramic medium as true to the earth’s handlings as possible connects her to the larger world around her. Quiet Impressions invites viewers into an opportunity to celebrate and draw closer to the artifacts that frame Mia’s visual language and the living environment around them.