The Dooryard Gallery--Marion Peters Angelica

The porcelain art created by Twin Cities ceramist Marion Peters Angelica is about celebration in two senses. "The first
sense is celebration of the remarkable beauty found in the inanimate and animate elements of the world--rock
formations, crystals, fossils, flowers, cell structures—their forms demonstrate both order and the unexpected, as well
as strength and fragility. These dualities--order with the unexpected, and strength with fragility inform the aesthetic
qualities I try to embody in my work.

"The second sense of celebration is the joining together of friends, family and neighbors to share important
moments—times for remembrance, to share joy or sorrow, to welcome or say farewell. The pieces I create are meant to
participate in the times people convene to celebrate the many turning points in our human lives. This sense of
celebration informs the function of my pieces."