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December 15, 2018
As part of Turning Tales exhibit at Kala Institute in Berkeley, Ehren Tool will be giving an artist talk. He says “I just make cups.” As a ceramic artist and Senior Laboratory Mechanician at the Ceramic Department at University of California, Berkeley, and Marine Veteran of the 1991 Gulf War, Tool has made and given away over 15,000 cups since 2001. Each of his cups contains a story with images that are sometimes hard to look at. “I hope that some of the cups can be starting points for conversations about unspeakable things. I hope conversations flourish between veterans and the people who are close to them. I also hope that some honest conversation can happen about war and its causes.”