Earthworks: Tradition, Influence, Innovation
May 10 - June 23, 2024
Juried by Ayumi Horie
The Umbrella Arts Center
40 Stow Street, Concord, MA
Earthworks; Tradition, Influence, Innovation is a regional show celebrating the depth of history, tradition, and cultural expression in contemporary ceramics, and the ways in which artists continue to expand the field through innovation and reinterpretation. As part of The Umbrella Arts Center's continued commitment to the ceramic medium, we intend for this show to highlight emerging and established artists working in clay. This show will invite artists currently residing in New England, honoring the skill, knowledge, and diversity of our regional ceramics community. Work both functional and sculptural is included.
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Saturday, May 18, 2024
11:30-1pm - Lecture Demonstration by Ellen Schön
"Open to New Technology: 3D Printing in Clay!"
2-4pm - Opening Reception
PRIZES
Best in show: $1,000
- Audrey An, Naughty Chair
Juror’s choice: 5 awards at $100 each.
- Deighton Abrams, Shrine of Broken Promises
- Anis Beigzadeh, Be Strong
- Erica Hood, So Empty
- Bri Larson, Robin and Worms
- Megumi Naitoh, Searching for Blue
JUROR'S STATEMENT
Some shows about ceramics hone in a niche topic, technique, or time period. To its great strength, this show does none of that. What makes this show worth experiencing is the breadth of aesthetics, approaches, and ways of seeing a material that is at once so common and so underseen.
Although ceramics has become the latest hot trend in the art world, a hierarchy remains between the utilitarian and the sculptural in the field. Because of this, it was critical to me to include many types of pots in the show. From Bri Larson’s charming “Robin and Worms Platter”, in which the variation of repetition is evidenced, to the raw human quality of Sang-Jeong Lee-Min’s work to Ellen Schön’s spare and elegant non-touched work, the pots in the show hold equal weight as any other piece. They invite us to touch them because we are used to that relationship with pots.
Deighton Adams’ examination of materials in “Shrine of Broken Promises” and Sonia Simoun’s piece remind us that clay permeates material culture and that the juxtaposition of materials can highlight their respective assets and vulnerabilities. The intangibility of video work is another contrast in material when we watch Megumi’s Naitoh’s plea for support for Ukraine using color, plasticity and motion.
We see the emotive power of Erica Hood’s “So Empty” and in contrast the soft longing in Helen Duncan’s “Shore Encounters” and the ways in which many of the pieces in the show address nature and climate. We also see the necessity of lightness and play when we see Susan Bernstein’s “Mancala”, a contemporary take on one the world’s most ancient games.
For so many of us, clay holds our cultures. Alejandra Cuadra, Anis Beigzadeh, and Ki Wan Sim and among those in the show who have made pieces that address identity and offer generous insight in their experiences. Audrey An, the winner of the Juror’s Choice award, speaks of transcultural experience between two countries, two languages, and two cultures and how the process between the digital and analog can also be a type of fluency. This duality adds up to much than two, in my opinion.
Congratulations to all artists included in Earthworks and those who were awarded prizes! My wholehearted hope for the Earthworks show is that it widens the horizon for anyone who thought that they knew what clay and ceramics are.
Ayumi Horie
ABOUT THE JUROR
Ayumi Horie is a full-time studio potter from Portland, Maine who makes functional pots, mainly with drawings of animals. In 2022, she was the recipient of the Maine Craft Artist Award from the Maine Craft Association and is featured in the PBS show, Craft in America. In 2015, she was awarded a Distinguished Fellow grant in Craft by the United States Artists and is the first recipient of Ceramics Monthly’s Ceramic Artist of the Year award. In 2020, she was awarded an Honorary Member at NCECA for “outstanding contribution” to the field. She has taught workshops and given lectures at many universities, art centers and residencies in the U.S. and abroad, including the Archie Bray Foundation, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Greenwich House Pottery, Penland School of Crafts, Peter’s Valley, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, the Northern Clay Center, and the International Ceramic Research Center in Denmark. She has served on the board of directors at the Archie Bray Foundation and American Craft Council. Currently, Ayumi is President of the board of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Her work is in various collections throughout the US, including the Museum of Art and Design in New York City.
FEATURED ARTISTS
Deighton Abrams
Deighton is a ceramic sculptor, educator and current Visual Arts Coordinator at The Ceramics Program at the Office for the Arts at Harvard University. He has taught at numerous institutions as an adjunct including MassArt, Lesley University, Clemson University, Winthrop University, and Greenville Technical College. He has shown work both nationally and internationally including the ISCAEE member Exhibition in Yixing, China and ArtFields 2017 in Lake City, South Carolina where he won a Merit Award for sculpture. He completed ceramics residencies at STARworks Enterprise in Star, North Carolina (2017) and the Harvard Ceramics Program (2020-22).
Audrey An
Audrey An’s creative research revolves around the notion of applying digital technologies to ceramics from the perspective of ‘convergence,’ whether it be cultural, technological, or interdisciplinary. She received her BFA and Art History Minor from Alfred University, an MFA from Penn State University, and was a post-baccalaureate student at Colorado State University. Currently based in Boston, MA, Audrey is a part of the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard as the 2022-24 Artist-In-Residence.
Simone Azevedo
Simone is an artist with a scientist soul or, sometimes, a scientist with an artistic voice.
Simone has multiple interests and is not afraid of exploring them. Simone started with ceramics at the Community Kiln and expanded her love for it creating her own studio at home. Simone does embroidery favoring colors, patterns and integrating beads or ceramics into her work. She studies and practices watercolor painting and has been studying ikebana. Simone follows an old passion for photography. The subjects that attract her attention, in general, are nature, humans’ journeys, colors, light, pattern and textures.
Kirsten Bassion
Kirsten Bassion is the owner and founder of The Clay School in Lynn, MA where for the last 18 years she has been making her own work and teaching classes for adults who want to learn the fine art of working in clay. Kirsten received her MFA in Ceramics from The School of American Crafts at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY in 2004 where she studied under Julia Galloway and Rick Hirsch. Before that she graduated cum laude with her Bachelors from Skidmore College in Saratoga, NY in 1997 with a major in studio art. She has been an artist in residence in studio from Spain to Virginia to California. Kirsten continues to love making and teaching. She lives in Marblehead, MA with her husband, kids, exchange student, and a cat.
Anis Beigzadeh
My Name is Anis Beigzadeh. Was born in 1985. I am an artist from Iran and grew up in Kerman, the city of Persian rugs, desert, soil, and sun.Currently, I am an MFA Ceramic Student at Umass Dartmouth University in Massachusetts. I got a Distinguished Artist Fellowship Award from this University in 2022. And now I am a resident of Fall River, MA. I got involved with art and culture when I was a child while observing and absorbing colors and patterns and studied painting at Bahonar University in Kerman. The forms, shapes, and patterns around me highly inspire me. My pottery skills help me focus on making functional and conceptual works.I have been a practicing artist for over 20 years. I learned ceramics only five years ago. Over these five years, my love and passion for this art form have only grown stronger.
Susan Bernstein
Susan Bernstein has 23 years of experience as a ceramic artist and teacher. She is a resident artist at Mudflat in Somerville, MA and also has a studio in Provincetown, MA. Her work is published in Lark "Vases" and has shown her work in State of Clay, AMP Gallery, Mudflat Gallery, Truro Center for the Arts, Center Gallery, TJ Walton Gallery, and the 2023 Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) Juried Show. I am tremendously inspired by unbroken lineage potter traditions around the world from South Africa, Burkina Faso, Japan, Nigeria, Mexico, India, Korea. My greatest artistic challenge lies in not just creating beauty in a ceramic form, but in clay's capacity to transcend its physical state and touch something deeper about our shared humanity.
Geoffrey Booras
Geoff Booras (b. 1982) is focused on producing experimental ceramics, painting, and sculpture. His practice contemplates the puzzling relationship humans have with nature, looking specifically at land-use, resource extraction, as well as the history of science, exploration, and philosophy. His work has been shown at Gildar Gallery, Denver; Haw Contemporary, Kansas City; and The Museum of Longing and Failure in Germany. Booras has been artist-in-resident at Mass MoCA, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Arctic Circle Residency, Wassaic Project, Banff Art Centre, and The Rockefeller Foundation’s Pocantico Residency. Booras was an apprentice for Toshiko Takaezu. He holds masters degrees from Harvard University (EdM), State University of New York at New Paltz (MFA), and studied geology at Skidmore College (BA). He teaches at Harvard Ceramics, MassArt, and Boston University.
Jodi Colella
Jodi Colella is a member of Boston Sculptors Gallery and recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowship in Sculpture. She has exhibited at Fuller Craft Museum, Danforth Art Museum, Textile Museum, Da Wang Culture Highland in China, Wheaton College, Helen Day Art Center among others. A selection of awards includes a 2019 Artist Residency at Haystack Mountain School for Craft; 2018 Artist-in-Residence at Society of Arts and Crafts, 2016 Fay Chandler Award; 2016 Fellowship ComPeung Thailand; 2013 Pollack-Krasner Fellowship Vermont Studio Center. Jodi teaches internationally and her work is included in the collections of Fuller Craft Museum, Danforth Museum, Da Wang Culture Highland, Fruitlands Museum, Meditech plus many private collectors. She has been featured in The Boston Globe, Artscope, Surface Design Journal, The Woven Tale Press, Vasari 21, Artistry in Fiber, TextileArtist.org and Open Studio with Jared Bowen.
Alejandra Cuadra
Alejandra Cuadra embraces clay, wood, video, steel, and objects of abundance to weave, braid, and knot together her history. Feeling neither from here nor there, she seeks to reconnect to her roots in Peru while threading together notions of identity, displacement, traditions, belonging, and a desire for freedom.
Cuadra lives on unceded Massachusett and Pawtucket land. Holds a BFA in Sculpture with a Minor in Public Engagement from Maine College of Art and Design. Has attended residencies at Yale Norfolk School of Art, Monson Arts, Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, and Ellis-Beauregard Foundation and apprenticed for ten years at Kemp Pottery in Orleans, MA.
Helen Duncan
Helen Duncan is a ceramic artist and educator originating from Ireland who immigrated to the United States early in her art career. She holds a BA in Ceramics from Limerick College of Art and Design, Ireland, and postgraduate studies in ceramics at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, she earned an MA in Art Education from Boston University. She has exhibitions and installations spanning both sides of the Atlantic. A professional member of NESA, she has received grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Irish Arts Council. Through her sculptures and installations, she delves into themes of displacement, resilience, and the intricate equilibrium of the natural world, its beauty, vulnerability and interconnectivity.
Fionnuala Hart Gerrity
Fionnuala Hart Gerrity is a Boston-based artist who works in a variety of media, including painting, bookbinding, and ceramics. They trained in printmaking and hand bookbinding with a focus on relief printing and artist’s books. More recently they have returned to an early love, ceramics, and their current ceramic work explores the relationships between plants, fungi, and animals in local forest ecosystems
Leah Bearce Guerin
As a potter, I attempt to create functional and unique artwork for the home. In my current work I am focused on the form and utilizing it as a starting point for surface embellishment. I love layering colors and patterns and decorating with robots, squirrels and other woodland friends mixed in. I find inspiration from the constant movement and colors found in nature, textile prints, and the whimsy of children's literature. I strive for a balance between the purposeful way I apply glazes within the pattern while controlling how the glazes soften and flow together during the process of firing.
Erica Hood
Erica Hood graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2014 with a BFA in ceramics. She is a working artist who creates functional ceramics, sculpture, and mixed media installations. She has been teaching ceramics throughout the New England area since graduating from MassArt. Currently she manages Chases Garage Artist Studios in York, ME. Erica resides in Attleboro Massachusetts with her husband Owen Roberts.
Kyle Johns
Kyle began his studies at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE). Following undergraduate, he received his Master of Fine Arts degree from Ohio University. While at Ohio University, Kyle participated in a six-week residency at The International Ceramics Center in Kecskemet, Hungary. He also was a studio assistant at Arrowmont School for the Arts and Crafts, returning several times as a workshop assistant. Additionally, Kyle has been a resident at Red Lodge Clay Center, The Interdisciplinary Ceramics Research Center, and The Archie Bray Foundation. He has taught at Kansas State University, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and the Harvard Ceramics Program. Kyle is currently an Artist in Residence at Umbrella Arts Center.
Hillary Kane
For Hillary Kane, place is of essence and the map coordinates of home have shifted across countries and continents. At very present, she lives a bi-hemispheric lifestyle, splitting time between the lush and heady tropical backdrop of her island life in Bali, Indonesia and the cyclical seasons of her New England upbringing-- embracing the duality of home in two disparate worlds; searching with her artwork for a fluency between them. Her creative practice likewise bridges and blurs the distinction between mediums: paint and clay. On canvases, she paints with clay slips, reveling in the haphazard spontaneity of a shrinking, cracking surface; on ceramic vessels, she harnesses the infinitely various and beautiful palette that firing with only wood offers. In the studio as in life, her path is one long unpredictable leap of faith.
Stephanie Lanter
Stephanie Lanter is an artist-educator who has worked in clay for twenty-five years. She exhibits her sculpture internationally, and has been awarded residencies at the Archie Bray Foundation, Arrowmont School of Art & Craft, the LH Project, Red Lodge Clay Center, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and the Mendocino Arts Center. She has presented at numerous colleges, conferences and art centers across the country and is currently Associate Professor of Ceramics at the Hartford Art School, University of Hartford. Previously, she taught at Emporia State, Washburn and Wichita State Universities in Kansas. She received an MFA from Ohio University in 2002.
Bri Larson
Bri is a full time potter and holds a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, primarily making wheel thrown pottery adorned with colorful clays and hand drawn imagery. She was a resident artist at The Steel Yard in Providence, Rhode Island from 2018-2022 where she started her current focus in illustrated porcelain pottery. In 2020, Bri moved across the border to Connecticut to help out family while still continuing to work in Providence, RI. She currently has a studio located in the Nicholson File Artist Community and a small studio space at home.
June Lee
My name is June Lee, resident artist at Mudflat Pottery Studio, Somerville Massachusetts. I was born and raised in Hong Kong and moved to the United States in 1997. I devote my time making functional pottery and teaching wheel throwing at two local clay studios. Nature has inspired me to draw and paint on my pots.
Sang-Jeong Lee-Min
My name is Lee Sang-jeong Lee Min. I am a ceramic artist. I was born and raised in Korea and am currently living in Somerville, Massachusetts. I have been working as a studio artist at Mudflat studios since early 2024. Before becoming a potter, my previous job was a photographer. I started making pottery in 2010. My work can be explained in two ways. One is wheel-thrown and functional, the other is hand-built and sculptural. You can see my work on Instagram (tree_eye_potter).
When I'm not working with clay, I love spending time with my 11 year old daughter. Cooking and growing indoor plants are my serious hobbies that provide a lot of inspiration for my pottery making.
Jeffrey Michael
Jeff is a designer, an educator, and ceramicist, who enjoys creating visual narratives that offer pleasure, humor, and cultural criticism. Jeff has made the switch from design professional to design professor in 2004, teaching at Wentworth Institute of Technology, (Boston, MA), where he is currently an Associate Professor of Industrial Design — shaping young minds, as well as, his ceramics.
Christopher Mitchell
Christopher Mitchell is an artist from Portland Maine. Received a BFA in studio art at Keene State College and a minor in art history in 2019. He has recently done his Post Baccalaureate in ceramics at University of Hartford in 2014, studying under Stephane Lanter and Matthew Towers. He was in 2 national juried shows recently Clay National, National Juried Ceramic Art Exhibition, Clay Studio Santa Barabra, Gelato, CA juried by Matt Mitros, Paper & Clay, National Juried Exhibition, Utah State University, Logan, Utah juried by Brooks Oliver. His work incorporates 3D printed objects, along with found objects that he creates ceramic sculptures involving mixed media. He currently works as a seasonal studio assistant at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts.
Cathy Moynihan
Cathy Moynihan was born and raised in the seaside town of Scituate, MA and now resides in the Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain. She has been working in clay since her childhood discovery of the delicious tactile quality of mud found in deep tire tracks in her neighbor’s backyard. Enjoying the timeless techniques of pinch and coil-building she chooses to handbuild in groggy stoneware.
She holds a B.A. of Fine Art from Messiah College and later continued into a ceramic sculpture concentration at the Appalachian Center for Crafts in Tennessee. For the last decade she has been making work at the Harvard University Ceramics Studio in Allston.
Megumi Naitoh AKA Yellow Clay
Megumi is a ceramicist who lives and works in Boston, USA, and Birmingham, UK. She is currently a professor of Art at Emmanuel College in Boston, MA. Megumi is originally from Tokyo, though she was formally trained in ceramics in the United States receiving an M.F.A. from Massachusetts College of Art in 2000 and a B.S. in Applied Arts from San Diego State University in 1995. Megumi was a recipient of the Brother Thomas Fellowship in 2013, the NCECA (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts) Emerging Artist Award in 2007, The Clay Studio Solo Exhibition Award in 2005, and the Massachusetts Cultural Grant in 2003. Her works are in the collections of Digital Craft at Manchester Metropolitan University in the U.K., Ceramic Research Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, and Guldagergaard, International, Ceramic Research Center in Denmark, to name a few.
Lauren Nauman
Lauren Nauman graduated from the Royal College of Art with a Masters in Ceramics & Glass in 2016. During this time she developed a new technique with her series, Lines, and was selected for the RJ Washington Bursary and Woo Scholarship. Prior to this, she completed a BA in Art Education with a concentration in ceramics at Emmanuel College in Boston, MA, USA, and was selected for a residency at Guldagergaard, the International Ceramic Research Centre, Denmark.
Fallon Navarro
New Bedford, Massachusetts based ceramic artist Fallon Navarro utilizes unexpected material combinations and color to reimagine narratives and call to attention new ways of being in the world. Her work invites viewers to contemplate the nuanced interplay of time, identity, and the body in her distinctive artistic language. Originally from Phoenix, Arizona, she received her BFA in Ceramics at Arizona State University. She is a current Masters of Fine Arts candidate in Ceramics
Jenny Peace
Jenny Peace is a full-time ceramic artist located on the South Coast of Massachusetts where she is building her first studio with husband and fellow artist, Joel Howe. She teaches regularly at the Ceramics Program at Harvard and has taught workshops and classes at Mudflat Studios. Jenny will be teaching large-scale coil-building at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill this summer. In addition to programs and residencies at Penland School of Craft, Toroo Studios in South Korea, and Watershed (summer 2024), Jenny completed a graduate certificate in Ceramics through UMass Dartmouth.
Julie Peck
Peck lives in Somerville, MA, creating her work in her basement studio, often with a parrot on her head! Her work has been shown in many local and national shows. After completing her MFA in the Program in Artisanry at UMass Dartmouth, Peck’s work, while always sculptural, is primarily focused on function. The quiet of quarantine gave her time and freedom to explore in her studio and she began creating larger, more ambitious pieces. In addition to her studio work, she has taught at Mudflat Pottery School for many years and recently began teaching at Indigo Fire Studio as well. She has received fourteen Massachusetts Cultural Council STARS grants, funding large scale artist-in-residency projects in many local elementary and high schools.
Rocky Prull
Rocky Prull (they/them) is an artist and labor organizer living in Boston, MA. They studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and are currently on a union campaign at Blue Bottle Coffee. Their work centers on the concepts of labor, time, and materiality as they move through this world as a cultural worker.
Carol Rissman
I’ve been a maker of functional ceramics and sculpture for over 25 years, usually hand-building with slabs and coils. Patterns and textures in nature are an enduring inspiration. My pleasure is in taking risks, combining inspiration and the material properties of clay. My work has been shown at venues including the Fuller Craft Museum and Lacoste Gallery, and is in the permanent collection of the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.
Katie Bosley Sabin
Katie Bosley Sabin is a ceramic artist and educator based in Boston, MA. Originally from Clearwater, FL, she earned her BFA from the University of Florida and her MFA from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Katie has been a resident at the Archie Bray in Helena, MT, Mudflat Studios in Boston, MA, and Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, MN. In 2022, she was selected as a Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist, and in 2023 she demonstrated at the NCECA national ceramics conference.
Ellen Schön
Ellen Schön is Adjunct Professor in Fine Arts and Ceramics Studio Supervisor at Lesley University College of Art and Design in Cambridge, MA, where she has taught ceramics and 3-D courses since 2002. She earned a BA from Marlboro College (Ceramics and Perceptual Psychology) and an MFA in Ceramics from Boston University’s Program in Artisanry. Schön won the Brother Thomas Fellowship Award and was an Artist Fellow at the St. Botolph Club. She is a member of the Boston Sculptors Gallery. Schön’s ceramic sculpture is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA.
Ann Schunior
I have traveled widely in West Africa, Central Asia and the Americas, meeting craftspeople that still work in the old ways. My work is inspired by their traditional crafts. My pottery forms come from the unfailing shapes of simple functional ware, but the surface designs come from animal imagery on petroglyphs, wood carvings and fabric paintings of traditional cultures. I try to incorporate the imagery from traditional media onto clay without losing their original vitality. As I work, I engage in conversations that span millennia, allowing me to listen and respond to the work of artisans that lived in the distant past.
Ki Wan Sim
Ki Wan Sim is a ceramic artist on unceded Massachusett and Pawtucket land. She left Seoul, Korea at age eight and has not returned since. Clay has been a critical medium in reconnecting Sim to her homeland and ancestry. Sim’s sculptural work explores migration, politics of identity, and intersectionality. She enjoys throwing traditional forms and adorning them with unexpected motifs.
Sonia Simoun
Ceramic artist Sonia Simoun has been living in the United States since 1988 after emigrating from the former USSR. Her ceramics practice spans over 25 years, and she is currently based in Harvard Ceramic Studios, Boston, Massachusetts. With a background in scenic painting, her studies at the Massachusetts College of Art sparked her work with clay. Her practice is process driven, focusing on intuitive hand-building with stoneware, wire and glass to create vessels which merge form and function. Simoun has exhibited extensively across the U.S and Europe, winning several prestigious awards throughout her career.
Sue Stein
My work is primarily a response to years of thinking about form and function. Having developed a love for photography and printmaking but needing to get my hands more involved in the process, I found pottery to be a perfect medium to explore. Each piece is hand thrown, trimmed and glazed as one-of-a-kind. The surface design allows me to use my years of printmaking to feel comfortable scratching right onto the clay or underglaze depending on the clay body. There is a visceral response I never tire of. All pieces are food, microwave and dishwasher safe.
Matthew Towers
Matthew Towers received his BFA in Drama from New York University and MFA in Ceramics from Alfred University. He has been a Professor of Ceramics at the Hartford Art School, University of Hartford since 1997. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally.
Lansing Wagner
~30 years ago I started making pots at the great Ceramics Studio at Harvard. I would spend about 6 hours a week working on pots and I would fire their soda kiln. I retired to Maine 3 years ago and spend a couple of hours a day working on pots. In my cellar studio I fire cone 6 porcelain. For soda firing I rent a kiln at The Watershed Ceramic Arts Center.
Samantha Wickman
Samantha Wickman grew up in Massachusetts. She studied ceramics and English literature at Connecticut College and graduated with a BA in 2008. She also studied ceramics at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland and received a Masters in library science from Simmons College in 2013. Samantha has been an active member of the Mudflat community in Somerville for many years. Her work draws heavily from her experiences living with chronic pain, illness, and disability. She has recently started showing her sculptural work in various group shows across the country.
Lisa Wolfgang
Lisa Wolfgang (she/her) is a queer, interdisciplinary artist whose work consists of poetry, objects, songs, and art experiences. Lisa will be pursuing her Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Fall 2024. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Expanded Media from Alfred University in 2014.
Lisa’s studio practice contemplates what it means to live a good life. Perhaps every generation has felt that they live in a time of great upheaval, but Lisa finds the challenges we presently face - climate change, staggering economic inequality, and the systems of oppression - create a unique existential anxiety. How can we live a good life despite all the factors against us? Can we believe in a higher power in the face of impending disaster? How can we create comfort and joy in our lives and communities?
Georgia Wyman
Georgia (they/them) is a white, queer parent and artist who lives in Cambridge, MA. They make art investigating gender, power, and personal narrative through ceramics and fiber art.
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