The Full Circle Nine Gallery (FC9) is proud to announce that clay artist Nathan Winship Smith, and his show, “Social Constructions: Set In Stone will be the featured for the August IDADA First Friday Art Tour, on Friday, August 4th. The show will premiere 6-9pm, and admission is free.

“My pieces come off as Lithic Stones, or Building Blocks, and represent modes of social construction by way of form and imagery,” said Smith, who is an Artist-in-Residence at the Beech Grove Clay Works, which partners with FC9. “Rules and Laws have been around for a long time and use to be ‘set in stone.’ I use this metaphor to pass on contemporary ideas related to social issues including politics, gender, and religion, to name a few. The pieces are meant to look solid, however, they are not always constructed that way, which speaks to the emptiness or hollowness within a social convention.”