UNBUILT/COMMISSIONED / HONOR

Project: Okada Ceramics Facility
Owner: Mark Masuoka, Director
Firm: Min | Day
Photographer: Min | Day

The Okada Ceramics Facility will be a major addition to the Bemis center’s internationally recognized art residency program. The Facility, centered around two large ceramic kilns, will allow the Bemis to attract high-profile ceramic artists as well as emerging talent. The Facility is part of a core component of the Bemis’ mission to support artists and to put their work on view. Unlike a conventional market-oriented gallery or art museum, the Bemis center’s agenda is to put “art in the making” on view as opposed to “art product”.

Jury Comments: “There is organization in the looseness of this building. It’s very graphic both in concept and presentation and feels alive. It reenergizes the old building, using shipping containers as a nod to the past, but does it all in a non-pretentious way.”