Musician:
Aiden Frier
Aiden Frier a jazz pianist, keyboardist, and social media creator from Houston, Texas. He currently studies music and plays piano at the University of North Texas (UNT), performing with the university's renowned jazz ensembles, including the Two O'Clock Lab Band and the prestigious One O’Clock Lab Band.
Aiden shares piano covers, jazz improvisations, and behind-the-scenes content on his TikTok Page, where he has amassed thousands of followers, and on Instagram @adnpiano.
Art Salon 5
Saturday, November 14, 2026
Dinner at 6:30
Conversation at 8:00
Music and dessert at 9:00
Presenter:
Noah Broomfield
Noah Broomfield is a multi-media and social practice artist using handmade ceramics and multi-media sculptures to explore relationships between people, land, material, and extraction. Born and raised in Berea, Kentucky, he received a BA from Berea College, and an MFA from the University of North Texas. He currently teaches at the University of North Texas as an Adjunct Instructor.
Drawing from his background in production pottery and his upbringing in rural Southern Appalachia, Noah uses the extracted resource of clay to make work that investigates and attempts to reconcile with the extractive processes he was exposed to in his home region, and in Texas such as industrial coal mining, oil drilling, and timber. His MFA thesis, Ceremony for Creative Care, invited viewers to drink tea from his vessels and share in conversation to explore the connections between site-specific material extraction and human and non-human worlds.
Ceremony for Creative Care
Ceremony for Creative Care (CCC) is a ceramics-based social practice that allows individuals or groups to care for and be actively connected to their geological, ecological, and social contexts. This care practice is facilitated by sharing tea and place-based conversation through handmade pottery and portable sculptures that provide alternatives to an urban environment. Drawing on material phenomenology theory, the work challenges human-centered hierarchies by treating clay, soil, wood, and tea as beings with their own embodied histories. The result is a generative praxis that cultivates care between humans and non-human beings through walking, biking, and conversation over tea.
