Jeff Forster: Sanctuary for Salvage
May 30 – September 5, 2026
Craft Garden
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
Houston, Texas
www.crafthouston.org
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) is pleased to present “Sanctuary for Salvage,” a site-specific installation by ceramic artist Jeff Forster. Working with reclaimed clay, glaze waste, and kiln debris, Forster constructs monumental columns that evoke historical ruins, rituals, and a sense of the sacred. Echoing totems, the columns of sacral architecture, and Japanese torii gates found in various spiritual spaces, Forster meditates on the symbolic and spiritual weight these pillars carry. By transforming materials like Styrofoam packaging into molds for his clay sculptures and reusing glaze waste, the artist’s process engages with themes of geological time and harnesses the unpredictable energy released during the firing process.
Find out more: https://crafthouston.org/…/jeff-forster-sanctuary-for…/
[Jeff Forster, Echoes of Offering, 2025. Repurposed ceramic parts, pine tree, mortar, and sound. Photo courtesy of the artist. (Representative image)]
