Pots for Membership
Introducing our April Pots for Membership Artists!
Each month, Studio Potter features a small selection of artists and their work, which is available for sale in our online store for thirty days only. In exchange for the sale of their piece, the artist (or a chosen beneficiary) will receive a one-year free membership to the journal.
Here are this month's participants:
gwendolyn yoppolo
gwendolyn yoppolo uses words, ceramic objects, and food to stretch boundaries and transform perception. She creates sensuous kitchen- and table-wares that use the physical experience of hunger and satiation to allude to larger issues of human desire and relationship. Her visionary designs challenge us to rethink the ways we nourish ourselves and others within contemporary food culture. She earned an MFA in Ceramics from Penn State University, an MA in Education from Columbia University, and a BA in Sociology from Haverford College. A passionate educator and thinker as well as a maker, she is currently serving as Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Kutztown University. Her writing can be found in Studio Potter (Vol. 37, No. 1; and Vol. 42, No. 2), Pottery Making Illustrated, and Passion and Pedagogy.
Learn more about gwendolyn at gwendolynyoppolo.com
Check out gwendolyn's piece on our store Here!
Ashley Guantt
Ashley Gauntt is a ceramic artist currently residing in North Florida. She began her studies in ceramics at St. Petersburg College, Clearwater, Florida, in 2006, and earned her BFA in Ceramics at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, in 2013, where she was awarded the Windgate Scholarship. She has since worked with arts organizations including the Ceramic Research Center at ASU Art Museum and the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, and professional ceramic artists including Don Reitz, Kurt Weiser and Emily Free Wilson of Free Ceramics. As a studio potter, Ashley was awarded to participate in several exhibitions in 2016 including Ceramic Tile at Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, and Cup: The Intimate Object at Charlie Cummings Gallery, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Ashley is inspired by the complex connections of personal, interpersonal and transpersonal elements and how they influence our sense of being.
Learn more about Ashley at ashleytheeartist.weebly.com
Check out Ashley's piece on our store Here!
Elenor Wilson
Elenor Wilson is a studio artist and editor of Studio Potter journal living and working in Northampton, Massachusetts. She holds a BFA from Southeast Missouri State University and a MFA from State University of New York at New Paltz. She was an assistant of potter John Glick and has been a resident artist at several national and international centers including Anderson Ranch, Colorado, Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei, and the Arctic Clay Center, Posio, Finland.
Learn more about Elenor at elenorwilson.com
Check out Elenor's piece on our store Here!
Want to find out more about the program or submit a piece of your own?
Email sophie@studiopotter.org