“Between Us” is an atmospheric exhibition celebrating the porousness between self, material, and community. In wood firing, raku, salt, soda, pit firing, and every atmospheric process, our work becomes a record of proximity~ what lies between us and the heat, between us and the clay, between us and the people we fire alongside.

This exhibition highlights that relational space. Jinsik Yoo and Jenn Kaplan juried “Between Us” to acknowledge how our environments~ kilns, land, weather, labor, chosen family~ shape the outcomes of our making. Like Queer theory itself, atmospheric firings insist that transformation is not a solitary act; it is co-created, interdependent, and gloriously unpredictable. The show honors the ways queer artists carve out space, make heat together, hold one another, and reimagine worlds through material practice. This show presents queer artists, including those whose identities, practices, or lived experiences resonate with queer understandings of permeability, kinship, and collective becoming.