ART OF THE CUP 2025

The Center for Southern Craft & Design presents its 18th annual juried exhibition, Art of the Cup. Since its launch, the exhibition has featured over 1,100 cups and teapots created by world-class Southern ceramicists. To celebrate 18 years, Art of the Cup 2025 will be juried by curator Sarah Darro and exhibited in Ogden Museum Store’s Center for Southern Craft & Design, with cups and teapots available for purchase.

ABOUT THE JUROR

Sarah Darro is a curator, writer and visual anthropologist working at the nexus of contemporary art, craft and design. She has established an intersectional curatorial vision that is invested in reinvigorating museum spaces as forums for discourse, innovation, action and engagement through experience. She is the founder of Green Room Gallery, a moveable kunsthalle and dedicated long-form color study. She lives and works in Houston, TX, where she is the Curator and Exhibitions Director of Houston Center for Contemporary Craft.

Darro was the 2022 Jentel Foundation Art Critic at the Archie Bray Foundation and the 2019 American Craft Council Emerging Voices Scholar Awardee. From 2021-2022, she was the Gallery Manager of the Center for Craft in Asheville, NC; in 2020 she completed a Curatorial Research Fellowship in Modern and Contemporary Glass at the Corning Museum of Glass; and in 2018 she completed a three-year Windgate Curatorial Fellowship at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft.

Darro holds a Master’s degree in Visual, Material, and Museum Anthropology from the University of Oxford and dual Bachelor’s degrees in Art History and Anthropology from Barnard College of Columbia University. Her research interests include artist communities and collectives, relational aesthetics, movement and performance practice in craft, architecturally-influenced design, radical accessibility, systems esthetics and the life histories and agency of objects.