Currently

• "Subtle Edges" is an exhibition curated by Bonnie Kemske. On show are sculptural ceramics that engage, transform and articulate. Unit 2 Gallery (Opposite Whitechapel Art Gallery) London Metropolitan University, until February 24 - March 12, 2010.
• Assembling Bodies: Art, Science & Imagination, an exhibition that includes the work of artists, scientists, and social scientists, at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge University, until November 2010.
• Sensorium, an exhibition curated by Art in Touch, aims to bring together artists working in various media who are directly concerned with the sense of touch, utilizing it as a tool for a heightened, conscious exploration of human perception. Crypt Gallery, Euston Road, London. May 5 – 20, 2011.

Upcoming performance/participation event

• "Towards the Embrace: Movement and Communication", a public participation dance/movement collaboration with Adèle Thompson (Dancer-in-Residence, Queens’ College, Cambridge University) and the Queens’ Contemporary Dance Society, was held at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge University, October 28, 2009. Part of the Cambridge University Festival of Ideas. (Other dance collaborations to follow.)

Workshop

• Touch and Tactility: Declaring Independence from the Visual Hegemony (leader), Topical Discussion at Independence, NCECA 2010 Conference (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts), Philadelphia USA, March 31 – April 3, 2010.
• One-day touch workshop for students at the Royal College of Art, London, sometime in December. (Other workshops available for universities, art and cultural centres, and other appropriate venues.)

Publications

• "Bonnie Kemske contemplates Jonathan Keep’s intriguing new Syringe Forms", Ceramic Review, in press.
• "Regina Heinz: Horizontal to Vertical, Landscape to Architecture", New Ceramics (Neue Keramik), March/April 2010.
• "Capturing the Embrace: a sculptural engagement with Merleau-Ponty’s 'lived experience'" (conference paper), Assembling Bodies Conference, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge University, December 4, 2009.
• "'Like hugging an extension of myself': the creation of artworks that engage the body’s sense of touch” (conference; published paper – date to be announced), The Material Body, University of Cambridge, March 27-29, 2009.
• "Embracing sculptural ceramics: a lived experience of touch in art" (journal paper), The Senses & Society, Volume 4, Number 3, November 2009.
• First you heat the water…", an article on Japanese Tea Ceremony, will be appearing in Artesian, Issue 2, November 2009.
• "Breaking the Taboo: Bonnie Kemske on Touch", Ceramic Review, Issue 239, September/October 2009.

Current Publications referencing Bonnie Kemske’s work

• NCECA Conference 2010 Podcast – in preparation.
• Contemporary Ceramics – International Perspective, Emmanuel Cooper (author), Thames and Hudson, London, 2009.
• "In Conversation with Merleau-Ponty: Enhancing Embodiment with Art beyond Sight", Anna Willieme (presenter), philoSOPHIA, 3rd Annual Meeting, May 27-29, 2009, New York, New York, USA.
• Art Elements: Biological, Global, and Interdisciplinary Connections. Bickley-Green, C. (author), Dubuque, IA: Kendal Hunt Publisher. 2009.
• "Elastic/Expanding: Conceptual ceramics", Jo Dahn (author), in Extra/ordinary: craft culture and contemporary art, Maria Elena Buszek (editor), Duke University Press, 2008.