{"id":3109,"date":"2026-04-09T18:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/artmuseum\/?p=3109"},"modified":"2026-04-09T18:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:12:07","slug":"circuitous-sculpture-by-todd-volz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/artmuseum\/circuitous-sculpture-by-todd-volz\/","title":{"rendered":"Circuitous:\u00a0Sculpture by Todd Volz"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3109 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-portrait-image-sm'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/volz-todd-ffa-307.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/volz-todd-ffa-307-150x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-portrait-image-sm size-portrait-image-sm\" alt=\"abstract post-industrial sculpture by ffa-307 by Todd Volz. mixed media in ceramic\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/volz-todd-ffa-307-150x225.jpg 150w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/volz-todd-ffa-307-300x450.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/volz-todd-ept-01-13.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/volz-todd-ept-01-13-150x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-portrait-image-sm size-portrait-image-sm\" alt=\"A Post-industrial sculpture titled ept-01-13, by Todd Volz. ceramic and mixed media\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/volz-todd-ept-01-13-150x225.jpg 150w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/volz-todd-ept-01-13-300x450.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-712'>\n\t\t\t\tA Post-industrial  sculpture titled ept-01-13, by Todd Volz\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/volz-todd-4we-02-13.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/volz-todd-4we-02-13-150x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-portrait-image-sm size-portrait-image-sm\" alt=\"A Post-industrial sculpture titled 4we-02-13, by Todd Volz. ceramic and mixed media\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/volz-todd-4we-02-13-150x225.jpg 150w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/volz-todd-4we-02-13-300x450.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-711'>\n\t\t\t\tA Post-industrial sculpture titled 4we-02-13, by Todd Volz. ceramic and mixed media\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h2>Exhibition Dates: February 5 \u2013 March 29, 2019<\/h2>\n<h3>Artist Presentation: March 29, 2019, 4:00 PM<\/h3>\n<p>Solidly grounded in the Steampunk aesthetic, Volz\u2019s skillfully crafted Post-industrial ceramic sculptures and functional objets d\u2019art evoke the fantastical.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing inspiration from the forms and surfaces of antique medical devices, farm machinery, and domestic appliances, Volz\u2019s surface treatments recall a spectrum of industrial materials from frosted glass to rusting steel. Volz seeks to conjure the \u201cspirit of inventiveness, ingenuity, and whimsy,\u201d through his work.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode-block-quote shortcode-block-quote--center\">\n<div class=\"shortcode-block-quote__inner-container\">The work is a product of my desire to be engaged in a creative process of posing questions and solving problems.\u00a0 The mechanical forms and antiqued surfaces that I use are meant to be familiar to engage viewers in a creative process of their own as they attempt to discern the true function of the objects amidst varying levels of real and imagined functionality.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Todd Volz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exhibition Dates: February 5 \u2013 March 29, 2019 Artist Presentation: March 29, 2019, 4:00 PM Solidly grounded in the Steampunk aesthetic, Volz\u2019s skillfully crafted Post-industrial ceramic sculptures and functional objets d\u2019art evoke the fantastical. Drawing inspiration from the forms and surfaces of antique medical devices, farm machinery, and domestic appliances, Volz\u2019s surface treatments recall a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":820,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/artmuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/artmuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/artmuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/artmuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/820"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/artmuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/artmuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3110,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/artmuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions\/3110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/artmuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/artmuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/artmuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}