Cheri Owen produces mixed media ceramic sculpture, functional wares, and prints. With a penchant for tactile mediums like ceramics and printmaking, she aspires to share her work with a world she can no longer see, as a means of touching people emotionally, through deep, piercing, poetic phrases, through the beauty of trees, birds, and the natural world, all of which she can still hear, deeply and fully. Owen is a blind artist and USAF veteran who works in Goleta, CA, where she lives with her wife and guide dog.

She is excited to be in a space for an extended period to be mindful and intimately aware of her creative practice, as well as to learn an unfamiliar environment through a touch-centered practice and to take in this new place and allow it to percolate into her work through bark, branches, trees, wind, deer, the warmth of the sun, grasses, the dew in the morning, the silence of the evening, the songs of the birds, and to inhale and listen to all of nature’s universe speaking to her. She is excited to be open to feel, taste, hear, and touch the region’s history.