Sara Poer and Tracy Gause created their plate as a reflection of their shared love of alternative photographic processes, especially cyanotype and anthotype. Drawn to the way these processes capture the beauty of nature, light, and natural forms, they wanted to bring that same appreciation for nature into their ceramic work.
Tracy Gause is a ceramic artist based out of Indianapolis. She enjoys playing around with and learning new processes in ceramics, and how to combine them with her other artistic interests.
Sara Poer is an interdisciplinary artist whose work centers on alternative photographic processes, material memory, and a broad range of textile practices. Although a practicing artist now she’s been creative since she was a child. Working primarily with cyanotype, textiles, and found objects/images, she explores how stories and knowledge are held, altered, and resurfaced through materials and time. Drawing from traditions often labeled as “women’s work”—such as quilting, sewing, and domestic handwork—Poer intentionally engages the long standing tension between craft and fine art, reframing these practices through her own lens to honor their skill, complexity, and cultural weight. By situating challenging ideas in familiar mediums to give viewers an entry point. She currently lives and works in Indiana.
This plate was made as one of the 18 table settings in the Indy Makers Dinner Series, By The Hand. By The Hand combines art, cuisine, and community for a unique dining experience. Alexa Adamson of Patina Gallery and Chef Andy Tipton have teamed up to create a multi-course menu inspired by in season produce, utilizing local farms and small businesses when available. Purchasing this plate includes one ticket for the dinner, a private event, which is held on November 19th at 7pm. Please note- all sales are final. If you are no longer able to attend the dinner, you may gift your seat. Please notify us of any changes no later than November 11th.
A pomegranate ginger spritz and a seasonal prelude will be served-
an assortment of chef-curated seasonal bites, celebrating the flavors of the harvest
To start:
Lacinato kale salad
with honey pickled apple, maple-mustard vinaigrette & fennel crisp
Main:
Roasted honeynut squash
with porcini risotto and hazelnut sage gremolata
warm ginger and turmeric cider tonic
To finish:
Sweet potato crémeux
with beetroot-citrus gelée, toasted pecan streusel
1 handmade plate (pictured above)
1 ticket to the private dinner on November 19th at 7pm with a 3 course meal and complimentary beverages
A handmade name tag by artist Lily Groot
A handmade menu by artist Bryn Foreman
Sara Poer and Tracy Gause created their plate as a reflection of their shared love of alternative photographic processes, especially cyanotype and anthotype. Drawn to the way these processes capture the beauty of nature, light, and natural forms, they wanted to bring that same appreciation for nature into their ceramic work.
Tracy Gause is a ceramic artist based out of Indianapolis. She enjoys playing around with and learning new processes in ceramics, and how to combine them with her other artistic interests.
Sara Poer is an interdisciplinary artist whose work centers on alternative photographic processes, material memory, and a broad range of textile practices. Although a practicing artist now she’s been creative since she was a child. Working primarily with cyanotype, textiles, and found objects/images, she explores how stories and knowledge are held, altered, and resurfaced through materials and time. Drawing from traditions often labeled as “women’s work”—such as quilting, sewing, and domestic handwork—Poer intentionally engages the long standing tension between craft and fine art, reframing these practices through her own lens to honor their skill, complexity, and cultural weight. By situating challenging ideas in familiar mediums to give viewers an entry point. She currently lives and works in Indiana.
This plate was made as one of the 18 table settings in the Indy Makers Dinner Series, By The Hand. By The Hand combines art, cuisine, and community for a unique dining experience. Alexa Adamson of Patina Gallery and Chef Andy Tipton have teamed up to create a multi-course menu inspired by in season produce, utilizing local farms and small businesses when available. Purchasing this plate includes one ticket for the dinner, a private event, which is held on November 19th at 7pm. Please note- all sales are final. If you are no longer able to attend the dinner, you may gift your seat. Please notify us of any changes no later than November 11th.
A pomegranate ginger spritz and a seasonal prelude will be served-
an assortment of chef-curated seasonal bites, celebrating the flavors of the harvest
To start:
Lacinato kale salad
with honey pickled apple, maple-mustard vinaigrette & fennel crisp
Main:
Roasted honeynut squash
with porcini risotto and hazelnut sage gremolata
warm ginger and turmeric cider tonic
To finish:
Sweet potato crémeux
with beetroot-citrus gelée, toasted pecan streusel
1 handmade plate (pictured above)
1 ticket to the private dinner on November 19th at 7pm with a 3 course meal and complimentary beverages
A handmade name tag by artist Lily Groot
A handmade menu by artist Bryn Foreman
