March 26 – April 3, 1998

Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery

An exhibition of recent works in ceramics by Hilda Soemantri, “artist in residence” at the University of Victoria Department of History in Art. A visiting Orion scholar Dr. Soemantri currently holds tenure at the Jakarta Institute of Arts and is Craft Counsellor for the Department of Small Industries. She is the author of numerous articles and essays on Indonesian ceramic art, crafts and recently, modern Indonesian art. Dr. Soemantri has travelled extensively in Europe, Japan, North America, and Australia in the study of ceramics.