Two years ago, Tabor Academy art department faculty member Kevin Arnfield received a Braitmayer Fellowship from Tabor to research, design and construct a 50 cubic foot wood-fired kiln.

Three months after the project was completed, Tabor’s Braitymayer Art Center will feature an exhibit curated by Arnfield entitled “Wood Fire: Kiln, Art & Community – Ceramics from a Pre-Industrial Technology.” The exhibit will run the first two weeks of February.

The exhibition will address the history and aesthetics particular to wood-fired ceramics and the design and construction of his kiln. It will also address the value of labor and community work inherent in the wood firing process.

Arnfield’s kiln project, much more complicated and involved than he anticipated, took nearly two years to complete and ended up involving Tabor art faculty, students, trustees, alumni and people from the local community. The kiln was first fired in October 2014, and the exhibit will feature more than 300 pieces from that inaugural kiln firing along with pieces of wood-fired pottery from local collections.

The public is invited to the opening reception of this exhibition on Friday, Feb. 6 in the Braitmayer Art Center at Tabor Academy from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.