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Meet American Pottery Festival Artist, Peter Jadoonath! Save the date for APF–September 6 - 8, and learn from him during the Sunday demonstrations! Register for Sunday demos at the link in our bio, under American Pottery Festival.

Peter Jadoonath is a teaching artist at Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and maintains a studio practice in Shafer, Minnesota. Jadoonath received a BFA from Bemidji State University, Minnesota, and has been the recipient of several honors, including a Jerome Ceramic Artist Project Grant, the Red Wing Collectors Society Foundation Award, and a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant. Jadoonath’s work is centered around functional, narrative-driven pottery with a sculptural presence. He describes it best in his own words: “My intent is to create pots that are drawings, and drawings that are pots.”

Meet American Pottery Festival Artist, Meredith Host! Save the date for APF–September 6 - 8, and learn from her during the Saturday demonstrations! Register for Saturday demos at the link in our bio, under American Pottery Festival.

Meredith Host produces contemporary tableware and textiles with retro flair. Her dot patterns are inspired by her collection of toilet paper and paper towel designs. She obsesses about these ubiquitous domestic patterns subtly quilted on the paper products we see, use, and throw away every day. Host reinterprets these motifs and celebrates them in the context of other domestic objects meant for daily use.

Host received her BFA in ceramics from Kansas City Art Institute (MO) in 2001 and her MFA in ceramics from The Ohio State University (Columbus) in 2008. In 2011, she was recognized as an Emerging Artist by both NCECA and Ceramics Monthly, and in 2016 was a presenter at the Utilitarian Clay Symposium (Gatlinburg, TN). Host has spent time at numerous ceramic residencies including the School for American Crafts at Rochester Institute of Technology (NY), Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (Edgecomb, ME), Dresdner Porzellan Manufactory (Dresden, Germany), and West Virginia University through The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China. Host teaches workshops around the country, and is a founding member of Kansas City Urban Potters.

Meet American Pottery Festival Artist, Al Holen! Save the date for APF–September 6 - 8, and learn from her during the Sunday demonstrations! Register for Sunday demos at the link in our bio, under American Pottery Festival.

Alisa (Al) Holen is an artist and educator who received an MA and an MFA in ceramics from the University of Iowa (Iowa City). She is currently a professor of art in ceramics at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville, IN.
Born and raised in Minneapolis, MN with a sculptor and art professor father (Norman D. Holen), she was introduced to both functional and sculptural art early. Her childhood home is filled with beautiful sculptural art displayed with curatorial acumen. Additionally, the tableware of Warren Mackenzie, Peter Leach, and Chuck Halling captured her imagination as the works were beautiful, and she was allowed to touch and use them! These influences have resulted in a desire to make functional work with a sculptural presence. Her ceramic work focuses on formal and metaphorical relationships, often staging forms in postures of dependency, elevation, support, aggression, or comfort. Her work is nearly always functional while maintaining a strong sculptural presence.

Meet American Pottery Festival Artist, Kenyon Hansen! Save the date for APF–September 6 - 8.

Kenyon Hansen is a studio potter and educator in the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan. His work has appeared in numerous publications and exhibitions around the country and abroad. Hansen has completed residencies at the Archie Bray Foundation (Helena, MT), Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (Edgecomb, ME), and Center Street Clay (Sandwich, IL). He has taught workshops at craft schools, universities, and art centers around the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands.

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Meet American Pottery Festival Artist, Mary Gattorna of Weather Report Ceramics! Save the date for APF–September 6 - 8.

Gattorna writes, “I have always been an artist and have studied many different mediums including photography, printmaking, glass, and textiles. In 2016, I reconnected with clay, began to focus on ceramics as my primary medium, and have been making functional objects ever since. The magic of ceramics embodies everything I love about creating—using my hands, embracing chance, and pretending I understand chemistry.

Weather Report is a collection of handmade vases and planters which combines my love for wild colors with my love for nature. These vessels are inspired by a lifelong obsession with dramatic landscapes and skies, and are created with the intention of enhancing the drama and distinctiveness of flora and fauna. The work is meant to enliven living spaces with joy, and each piece is built by hand, by me, in NYC.”

Meet American Pottery Festival Artist, Stuart Gair! Save the date for APF–September 6 - 8.

Stuart Gair grew up in Northeast Ohio where his interests in local materials, historiography, and the ceramic process first began. He often references past cultures and civilizations in his work as a way to understand specific groups through the objects they created. 

Gair received an MFA in ceramics from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and a BAS in history from Ohio University (Athens). He has also spent time teaching at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) and Colorado Mountain College (Glenwood Springs), and was a long-term resident at the Archie Bray Foundation (Helena, MT). He has a studio in Canaanville, OH where he has been experimenting with local clays and exploring the ceramic history of the region. He is the co-founder of Canaanville Arts Center, a gallery and artist residency that is focused on bringing nationally and internationally recognized artists to the area as well as highlighting artists and craftspeople from the Appalachian region working in traditional methods. Gair is currently an assistant professor of instruction at Ohio University (Athens).

Meet American Pottery Festival Artist, Jennifer Fujimoto! Save the date for APF–September 6 - 8, and learn from her during the Sunday demonstrations! Register for Sunday demos at the link in our bio, under American Pottery Festival.

Fujimoto grew up in Oregon and spent holidays with family in Hawaii, where she was born. After earning a BFA in graphic design, she began a 20+ year career working in small creative agencies and tech companies. In 2017, Fujimoto stepped away from the computer to pursue her dream of becoming an independent artist.

 

Fujimoto works out of her home studio, creating whimsical ceramic art and functional decor inspired by Japanese folk art. Her art conveys themes rooted in her mixed-race heritage and the universal desire for connection with others. It features delightfully expressive faces and simple line art with bold splashes of color and references traditional Japanese and European motifs.

Meet American Pottery Festival Artist, Will Dickert! Save the date for APF–September 6 - 8, and join him at the Friday Pre-Festival workshop taught by Andy Bissonnette and Will Dickert. Register for the workshop at the link in our bio, under American Pottery Festival.

Will Dickert is a studio potter and educator in Asheville, NC. He creates stoneware pottery and vessels in his shared studio space situated among a vibrant community of makers and artists along the French Broad River. He was raised in Bristol, VA—the middle of three brothers—and has a strong affinity and love for the people and natural environment of the Southern Appalachian region and Blue Ridge Mountains. He completed a BA with a focus in ceramics from the University of North Carolina (Asheville), and as a post baccalaureate student received a North Carolina Art Education licensure. Teaching and exposing his community to the craft and art of clay is a passion that continues to play a significant role in his involvement in the arts as a whole. His work is wood-fired using a variety of techniques and kilns, both traditional and contemporary in design and effect. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally and is represented in a number of private and public collections. Dickert enjoys live music, vegetable gardening, hiking and backpacking, summer camps, cooking, eating, Jeopardy!, tennis, beer, baseball, skiing, and is a new parent of two boys with his brilliant and beautiful wife.

Meet American Pottery Festival Artist, John Cohorst! Save the date for APF–September 6 - 8, and learn from him during the Saturday demonstrations! Register for Saturday demos at the link in our bio, under American Pottery Festival.

John Cohorst, a Midwest-based artist, creates functional and sculptural art objects. He holds a BFA and MA with a concentration in functional ceramics from Pittsburg State University (Pittsburg, KS). Cohorst has been an assistant to Jun Kaneko in his Omaha studio. He studied wood-firing techniques with the International Workshop of Ceramic Art in Tokoname (Japan). In 2010, he accepted an artist-in-residence position at Carbondale Clay Center (CO), and was part of the studio collective Studio for Arts + Works (SAW) in Carbondale. In 2017, he was the visiting artist at the University of Montana (Missoula). As an artist at the Artstream Nomadic Gallery, Cohorst has exhibited and taught workshops in universities, art centers, and museums across the United States. In 2019 he returned to Omaha where he currently lives and makes his works.

Meet American Pottery Festival Artist, Sarah Chenoweth Davis! Save the date for APF–September 6 - 8, and learn from her during the Saturday demonstrations! Register for Saturday demos at the link in our bio, under American Pottery Festival.

Sarah Chenoweth Davis earned an MFA in applied craft and design from the Oregon College of Art and Craft and the Pacific Northwest College of Art, and a BA in biology from the College of Wooster in Ohio. She established her first studio in 2002, outside Hood River, Oregon, where she built her first kiln. Since then, her practice has brought her from forest, to farm, to urban jungle. Her work has been exhibited throughout the US and in Japan and has been featured in various publications including Ceramics Monthly,The Journal of Australian Ceramics, and the interactive e-book American i-Pottery.9

Meet American Pottery Festival Artist, Sam Briegel! Save the date for APF–September 6 - 8, and join her at the Thursday Pre-Festival workshop taught by Sam Briegel and Didem Mert! Register for the workshop at the link in our bio, under American Pottery Festival.

Sam Briegel grew up in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains in Knoxville, TN. She received her BFA in three-dimensional arts from the University of Tennessee (Knoxville) in 2013 where she predominantly focused on ceramics. Following that, Briegel completed an internship at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts Clay Business in Helena, Montana. Briegel earned her MFA in ceramics from Ohio University (Athens) in 2018 and went on to a year-long residency at District Clay Center in Washington, DC. Briegel then completed a residency at Baltimore Clayworks as their Lormina Salter Fellow. She has been a represented artist by the Smithsonian Craft Show in 2020 - 2022. Briegel currently works out of her home studio outside of Baltimore and is a part-time faculty member at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and Montgomery College in Rockville, MD.

Meet American Pottery Festival Artist, Yael Braha! Save the date for APF–September 6 - 8.

Born in Italy and a daughter of refugees from North Africa, Braha was raised in Italy in a visually abundant environment that shaped her love for composition, aesthetics, and visual arts. She received a BA in graphic design from the European Institute of Design (Rome), and a MFA in cinema from San Francisco State University. Her past multidisciplinary background informs her recent focus on ceramic work. Braha creates functional ceramics with bold and stylized surface patterns which feature tessellations, optical, and geometrical illusions. The way that patterns are framed within a form, where they are cut, assembled, and overlapped, alludes to the process of film editing. In 2021, she was awarded the Multicultural Fellowship Award from the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA).

Meet American Pottery Festival Artist, Bekah Bliss! Save the date for APF–September 6 - 8, and learn from her during the Saturday demonstrations! Register for Saturday demos at the link in our bio, under American Pottery Festival.

Bekah Bliss is a ceramic artist living in her hometown of Kansas City, Missouri. Recently selected as one of Ceramic Monthly’s Emerging Artists, her functional ceramics are carefully considered—utilizing textured surfaces, modeled on elements of nature and architecture. She received a BFA in ceramics and a BSED in art education from Missouri State University (Springfield) in 2016. In 2019, she joined the KC Urban Potters, an artist collective that’s expanding the visibility of contemporary studio pottery through public lectures and curated exhibitions, alongside events like the Midwest Pottery Festival. Bliss currently teaches monthly classes at the Belger Arts Center and is the part-time studio manager for 323CLAY.

Meet American Pottery Festival Artist, Andy Bissonnette! Save the date for APF–September 6 - 8, and join him at the Friday Pre-Festival workshop taught by Andy Bissonnette and Will Dickert! Register for the workshop at the link in our bio, under American Pottery Festival.

Andy Bissonnette, a recent MFA graduate from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, is a potter and educator currently residing in Lincoln, Nebraska. He is acutely interested in the union of form, surface, utility, and the relationship between clay body and glaze. He is interested in historical uses of pottery, both narrative and utilitarian, and often looks to the past when conceiving his work. His influences are far and many, ranging from Northern Song Dynasty Celadons to the form language developed by the ancient Greeks, to the modernist aesthetic of the Bauhaus in Germany.

Prior to graduate school, Bissonnette spent over a decade as a designer in the Minneapolis advertising community where he developed and nourished his penchant for subtle details. He crafts his pots with this same care and rigor which can be seen in his precisely fitting lids, carefully sculpted handles, and elegant vessel forms.

Meet American Pottery Festival Artist, Patty Bilbro! Save the date for APF–September 6 - 8.

Patty Bilbro has been working in clay for over 30 years with an associate’s degree in clay production from Haywood Community College (Clyde, NC), and a master’s certificate in ceramics from Hood College (Frederick, MD). She has been a resident artist of Odyssey ClayWorks (Asheville, NC) and Baltimore Clayworks (MD). Bilbro creates both functional and non-functional work utilizing wheel-thrown and hand-built forms with geometric patterns and free-form illustrations. “I strive to allow my work to grow and change as I do, creating bodies of work that are reflective of the time and space that I inhabit.” Bilbro currently lives and works in Madrid, NM where she has daily conversations with the crows. She plays, creates, and meanders through the desert as much as she can. In addition to her ceramic work, her current body of work has expanded to include experimental films, installations, and performance.

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Join us for American Pottery Festival this fall, September 6-8! Get first pick of over a thousand amazing pots on opening night, learn directly from the artists through workshops and demonstrations, and become a VIP at Northern Clay Center. And of course, shop for some amazing pots! APF will be open to the public on Sep. 7 from 10 am - 5 pm, and Sep. 8 from 10 am - 3 pm. The opening night party will be on Sep. 6 from 6 - 9 pm.

American Pottery Festival (APF) is an annual three-day event that serves as Northern Clay Center’s largest fundraiser. The weekend is filled with opportunities to engage with artists and pottery fans alike during workshops, demonstrations, artist talks, and casual gallery chats. Peruse the wide variety of pots available during this weekend event, online or in person.

Meet KyoungHwa Oh, a 2024 Recipient of the McKnight Residency for Ceramic Artists!

KyoungHwa Oh was born in Seoul, Korea, where she spent her childhood and naturally developed a connection to traditional Korean ceramics (Koryo Celadon). Oh studied fashion design in Korea and worked for five years as a designer before coming to the United States to gain more design experience. While in the United States, she became interested in working with clay and changed her plans to study ceramics.

KyoungHwa Oh is a professor of art and the gallery director of 437CO at Colorado Mesa University (Grand Junction). She joined CMU in the fall of 2011, where she imparts her knowledge and passion for ceramics and foundation courses in the art and design department. Her role is part of an initiative to expose art students to unique artistic approaches. Oh’s work was selected in numerous juried and invitational exhibitions across the United States, China, Turkey, and Canada. Oh’s works are in permanent collections at Mulvane Art Museum (Topeka, KS), the International Museum of Dinnerware Design (Ann Arbor, MI), the Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, NY), and Daum Museum of Contemporary Art (Sedalia, MO).

McKnight Residencies for Ceramic Artists Program recognizes and supports mid-career ceramic artists whose work demonstrates exceptional artistic merit and who have already proven their abilities within the field. The program provides recipients with the opportunity to be in residence for three months at Northern Clay Center, where they can develop their work and exchange ideas and knowledge with Minnesota ceramic artists. Each resident artist will receive a $6,000 award, studio space provided at no cost, and a glaze and firing allowance. Artists also present a public lecture, and are featured in a catalogue and group exhibition at Northern Clay Center.

Learn more about the awardees and about McKnight Fellowships and Residencies for Ceramic Artist at the link in our bio.

Meet Dorothea Nold, a 2024 Recipient of the McKnight Residency for Ceramic Artists!

Dorothea Nold’s sculptural and installation works deal with the transformation of social, physical, and urban spaces and their connection and interrelation to architectural forms. The experiences arising during her travels in different countries and socio-cultural contexts serve as the primary catalyst for her working methods, a resolute response to materials, and both formal and contextual references. In 2008, Nold experienced a magnitude 7.8 earthquake in China. In her artistic practice, she has since consciously worked with unstable components, such as materials whose properties contradict their use.

Nold graduated from the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (Paris) and is undertaking a PhD at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (German). She has received numerous grants, including a working grant from the Stiftung Kunstfonds in 2020, a catalogue grant from the Senate of Berlin also in 2020, and a PhD grant from Cusanuswerk e.V. spanning from 2013 – 2016. She has been invited to residencies in China, Mali, Armenia, and Switzerland, among others. Her work is shown internationally.

McKnight Residencies for Ceramic Artists Program recognizes and supports mid-career ceramic artists whose work demonstrates exceptional artistic merit and who have already proven their abilities within the field. The program provides recipients with the opportunity to be in residence for three months at Northern Clay Center, where they can develop their work and exchange ideas and knowledge with Minnesota ceramic artists. Each resident artist will receive a $6,000 award, studio space provided at no cost, and a glaze and firing allowance. Artists also present a public lecture, and are featured in a catalogue and group exhibition at Northern Clay Center.

Learn more about the awardees and about McKnight Fellowships and Residencies for Ceramic Artist at the link in our bio.

Meet Sana Musasama, a 2024 Recipient of the McKnight Residency for Ceramic Artists!

Sana Musasama received her BA from City College of New York in 1973 and her MFA from Alfred University, NY in 1988. She was awarded the 2022 Life Honorary Membership Award and the 2018 Outstanding Achievement Award from NCECA for her years of teaching and her humanitarian work with victims of s*x trafficking in Cambodia and the United States.

Musasama is the coordinator of the Apron Project, a sustainable entrepreneurial project for girls and young women reintegrated back into society after being forced into s*x trafficking. In 2016, she was a guest speaker on “Activism through Art” at ROCA. An article by Cliff Hocker, “If I can Help Somebody: Sana Musasama’s Art of Healing” appears in the International Review of African American Art.

Her work is in multiple collections such as The Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC), The Museum of Art and Design (New York) the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum (New York), the Hood Museum of Art (Hanover, NH), The Studio Museum (Harlem, NY), Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Harlem, NY), Bluffton University (Bluffton, OH), and in numerous private collections. In 2015, the Museum of Art and Design in New York selected four works from The Unspeakable Series for their private collection. Musasama lives and works in New York.

McKnight Residencies for Ceramic Artists Program recognizes and supports mid-career ceramic artists whose work demonstrates exceptional artistic merit and who have already proven their abilities within the field. The program provides recipients with the opportunity to be in residence for three months at Northern Clay Center, where they can develop their work and exchange ideas and knowledge with Minnesota ceramic artists. Each resident artist will receive a $6,000 award, studio space provided at no cost, and a glaze and firing allowance. Artists also present a public lecture, and are featured in a catalogue and group exhibition at Northern Clay Center.

Learn more about the awardees and about McKnight Fellowships and Residencies for Ceramic Artist at the link in our bio.

Meet Uriel Caspi, a 2024 Recipient of the McKnight Residency for Ceramic Artists!

Uriel Caspi has been fascinated with clay since his early childhood. He has developed unique working methods and his own visual vocabulary to explore and expand the spectrum of vessel-body-sculpture. Caspi’s investigations in clay allows him to manipulate traditional forms into ‘embodied objects,’ and to extrapolate familiar human genetics into abstract forms, where nature and technology become indistinguishable.

Originally from the Middle East, Caspi cites archaeological remnants as key conceptual cornerstones in his work. Relics from antiquity are subject to his contemporary interpretations, and collide with multicultural references from across the globe. This amalgam of influences allows Caspi to perform a sort of inner excavation, revealing narratives, memories, and personal sediments that compose the iconography of his art. His immersive installations of ceramics operate as platforms for artistic interactions, and reflect both the aesthetics of antiquity and a visionary environment of the future.

McKnight Residencies for Ceramic Artists Program recognizes and supports mid-career ceramic artists whose work demonstrates exceptional artistic merit and who have already proven their abilities within the field. The program provides recipients with the opportunity to be in residence for three months at Northern Clay Center, where they can develop their work and exchange ideas and knowledge with Minnesota ceramic artists. Each resident artist will receive a $6,000 award, studio space provided at no cost, and a glaze and firing allowance. Artists also present a public lecture, and are featured in a catalogue and group exhibition at Northern Clay Center.

Learn more about the awardees and about McKnight Fellowships and Residencies for Ceramic Artist at the link in our bio.

Meet Birdie Boone, a 2024 Recipient of the McKnight Residency for Ceramic Artists!

Birdie Boone is a studio potter and independent ceramics educator. Her work is subtle, sense-full, and expressive—made for daily use and contemplation. Born in West Virginia, Boone grew up in rural southwestern Virginia and in the city of San Francisco. She holds an AB in studio art from William & Mary (Williamsburg, VA) and an MFA in Artisanry – Ceramics from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Boone’s teaching experience includes intro- to advanced- level college courses in ceramics and 3D art, community courses, and workshops at craft schools. She has been an artist-in-residence at numerous organizations, including The Pottery Workshop (Jingdezhen, China), West Virginia University (Morgantown), Starworks Ceramics (Star, NC), and as a long-term artist-in-residence at the Archie Bray Foundation (Helena, MT). Boone currently lives and maintains a full-time studio practice in Meadowview, VA. In 2023, she became a mentor with Clay Cohorts and continues to lead workshops that explore hand building techniques, the manipulation of ceramic materials, ceramics philosophies, and aesthetics.

McKnight Residencies for Ceramic Artists Program recognizes and supports mid-career ceramic artists whose work demonstrates exceptional artistic merit and who have already proven their abilities within the field. The program provides recipients with the opportunity to be in residence for three months at Northern Clay Center, where they can develop their work and exchange ideas and knowledge with Minnesota ceramic artists. Each resident artist will receive a $6,000 award, studio space provided at no cost, and a glaze and firing allowance. Artists also present a public lecture, and are featured in a catalogue and group exhibition at Northern Clay Center.

Learn more about the awardees and about McKnight Fellowships and Residencies for Ceramic Artist at the link in our bio.

Meet Ani Kasten, a 2024 Recipient of the McKnight Fellowship for Ceramic Artists!

Kasten is a ceramic artist born on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts in 1976 into a family of artisans, her father a hand-weaver and her mother an avid gardener and gallerist. After receiving a degree in English Literature from the University of Michigan in 2000, Kasten began her career in ceramics as an apprentice to UK potter Rupert Spira. Kasten then spent five years in Kathmandu, Nepal, working with local potters to develop stoneware clay, glazes, and kilns, and designed a range of dinnerware hand made by Nepalese artisans at Thimi Ceramics (Thimi, Nepal).

Her training in England and her experiences in Nepal were a formative influence on her ceramic sculpture and vessels. Kastens’s work draws from minimalist British studio ceramics, as well as the weathered, hand-made antiquities that fascinated her during her time living in Asia. Kasten’s ceramic practice balances studio time for creating artwork with active community engagement—both of these avenues fuel and inspire her creative work. In 2016, Kasten relocated to Shafer, MN and renovated a small homestead, with a house and barn, where she now lives and works. She maintains a full-time studio practice, and in addition to her sculpture and vessel work, she has collaborated on collections of ceramic objects for several Michelin-starred restaurants in Washington, D.C. and Oregon. Kasten’s home and studio are located in the St. Croix River Valley, which is home to an established community of potters. Kasten’s studio is one of seven host studios for the historic St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour.

The McKnight Fellowships for Ceramic Artists Program is designed to strengthen and enhance Minnesota’s artistic community, as well as significantly advance the work of Minnesota ceramic artists whose work is of exceptional artistic merit, who have already proven their abilities, and are at a career stage that is beyond emerging. Two grants of $25,000 each are awarded annually.

Learn more about the awardees and about McKnight Fellowships and Residencies for Ceramic Artist at the link in our bio.

Meet Maggie Jaszczak, a 2024 Recipient of the McKnight Fellowship for Ceramic Artists!

Jaszczak is a potter and mixed-media artist originally from Ontario, Canada. She completed her undergraduate studies in Canada and earned her MFA in ceramics from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2013. Jaszczak has participated in ceramic residency programs at Penland School of Craft (Penland, North Carolina), New Taipei Ceramics Museum ( New Taipei City, Taiwan), the Archie Bray Foundation (Helena, MT), Anderson Ranch Arts Center ( Snowmass, CO), and Medalta (Medicine Hat, Canada). Jaszczak has taught classes and workshops across the US and Canada. She and her husband live in rural Minnesota where they work as studio artists.

The McKnight Fellowships for Ceramic Artists Program is designed to strengthen and enhance Minnesota’s artistic community, as well as significantly advance the work of Minnesota ceramic artists whose work is of exceptional artistic merit, who have already proven their abilities, and are at a career stage that is beyond emerging. Two grants of $25,000 each are awarded annually.

Learn more about the awardees and about McKnight Fellowships and Residencies for Ceramic Artist at the link in our bio.