# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Opening Night For “How the West was Won” ! Exhibition by North Texas Artist Holly Grey 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 10 May, 2025 at 06:00 pm – Sat, 10 May, 2025 at 11:00 pm
- **Event Description**: We’re super excited to announce the opening exhibition for North Texas Ceramic Artist Holly Grey ! In the exhibition ‘How the West Was Won”, Grey’s work is a correlation between where she grew up on the prairie in Kansas, a few miles from the Oregon Trail, and the folk stories of “The Great Western Migration.”

Utilizing “Western” motifs in and on mold casted forms, “my intent is to highlight the significant consequence this migration had on demographics, ecology, economics, and politics shaping the United States into its modern form,” explains Grey

Grey is an artist based in Fairview, TX. She is an artist-in-residence at Glaze Ceramics Studio in McKinney, TX. Her work is currently included in the group exhibition “Contemporary Art 2025” at RTown Gallery, Grapevine, TX.

Grey is notorious for using thick glazes, pottery shards, sand, dirt, and other found materials to cover and transform the pristine cast forms.

The ‘How the West Was Won’ art exhibition will surprise gallery visitors with colorful and complex surfaces on familiar iconography.                                                        ARTIST STATMENT & BIO : My current work, “How the West Was Won,” is a direct correlation between where I grew up on the edge of the Konza prairie in Kansas, a few miles from the Oregon Trail, and the folk stories of “The Great Western Migration.” I utilize “Western” motifs and iconography in mold-casted forms to represent industrialization and the arrogance of “Manifest Destiny” that fueled Western expansion. These concepts contrast with my interest in Indigenous cultures, culminating in the narrative of my work.
I use thick glazes, pottery shards, sand, dirt, and other found materials to cover and transform the pristine cast forms. My intention is to highlight the significant consequence this migration had on demographics, ecology, economics, and politics shaping the United States into its modern form.
Biography
Ms. Grey holds a B.A. from Kansas State University and an MBA from Texas Woman’s University. She also studied and worked at the Kansas City Art Institute, the Hartford Art School, and the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. In the summer of 2024, she furthered her studies at the International School of Ceramics in Tuscany.
She is an artist-in-residence at Glaze Ceramics Studio in McKinney, Texas.               The Exhibition will be up for the month ! Don’t miss this exhibition! A possible wine tasting might also be in conjunction with the opening night , refreshments and horsdoeurvres provided of course!
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/beaumont/opening-night-for-how-the-west-was-won-exhibition-by-north-texas-artist-holly-grey/200028078115148
- **Event Categories**: art, exhibitions, fine-arts, trips-adventures, food-drinks, wine-tasting
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 105

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Beaumont
- **state**: TX
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 1089 Magnolia Avenue, Beaumont, TX
- **lat**: 30.09245
- **long**: -94.1046
- **full address**: 1089 Magnolia Avenue, Beaumont, TX, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: J. Alexander Pottery Co. (https://allevents.in/org/j-alexander-pottery-co/12736901)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 10 May, 2025 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 1089 Magnolia Avenue, Beaumont, TX, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** J. Alexander Pottery Co.
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, exhibitions, fine-arts, trips-adventures, food-drinks, wine-tasting
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Opening Night For “How the West was Won” ! Exhibition by North Texas Artist Holly Grey  ?
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