Ceramicist Karina Yanes at her Morean Center for Clay exhibit, “Between Two Groves.” Credit: Courtesy of Morean Center for Clay
This weekend is your last chance to check out “Between Two Groves,” Karian Yanes’s solo exhibition at the Morean Center for Clay.
Through ceramics, Yanes shares her experience at the intersection of Puerto Rican, Palestinian and Midwestern culture, exploring how stories and traditions transform across time, memory, and diaspora.
From Karian Yanes’ “Between Two Groves” exhibit at the Morean Center for Clay in St. Petersburg, Florida. Credit: Courtesy of Morean Center for Clay
The show’s largest work, “All We Ate Was Watermelon,” is a 12-foot-tall mixed-media sculpture with 3,480 ceramic pieces protecting an orange branch modeled after a traditional Palestinian cross-stitch pattern.
It’s surrounded by a series of ceramic wall hangings that show fragments of Yanes’ family history using scenes from her family’s orange grove in Palestine and imagery from Puerto Rico, where her grandfather worked in a juice factory, along with references to her ‘90s Ohio childhood and elements of her current life in Florida.
There is no cover for “Between Two Groves,” running through Saturday, Dec. 27 in St. Petersburg.
This article appears in Dec. 18 – 24, 2025.
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