HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA.- The Huntsville Museum of Art presents Encounters: Guadalupe Robinson, on view through November 27. In this Falls Encounters exhibit, a series that brings contemporary and regional art together, the Museum will display a series of hand built clay works by Guadalupe Robinson, a local artist of Mexican decent.

The Museum’s award-winning Encounters series of regional contemporary art continues with a selection of recent stoneware pieces by Huntsville’s own Guadalupe Lanning Robinson. A native of Mexico, Robinson is well-known regionally for her wheel-thrown vessels that incorporate visual references to her native culture. Her pots are painstakingly crafted, often constructed in sections and later carved and embellished with a delicate combination of earthy colors and rich textures that both please the eye and beckon the hand. The exhibition showcases a new series of larger scale works.

Robinson received a bachelor of arts degree in interior design from the Colegio Pedagogico Anglo Espanol and apprenticed in ceramics at the Centro de Artes Plasticas Independencia, both in Mexico City, Mexico. Her work has won many awards throughout the region, including Awards of Distinction at Panoply Arts Festival and the Helen Keller Festival in Tuscumbia, Ala., and Best of Show at the Kentuck Festival of the Arts in Northport, Ala. Robinson was recently honored with an Artist Fellowship in Crafts from the Alabama State Council of the Arts.