Past Artist

SunYoung Park

May 28, 2026 by

SunYoung Park is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores hybridity, memory, and cultural identity through ceramics and mixed media. Combining clay with fabric, wood, and botanical elements, she creates sculptures that evoke hybrid bodies and environments, blurring boundaries between the organic and the constructed, the personal, and the cultural. Park was selected as a 2026 NCECA Emerging Artist and received the 2026 Studio MASS MoCA Fellowship and 2023 Wassaic Project Fellowship. She has held residencies at the Interdisciplinary Ceramic Research Center, Charlotte Street Foundation, and Clayarch Gimhae Museum. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including in Belgium, China, and Korea.

Jami Porter Lara

May 28, 2026 by

Jami Porter Lara is a New Mexico-based conceptual artist. Working across media such as ceramics, drawing, signage, textiles, and lithography, she tries to unbend normal, unsettle natural, and unwind beauty from its logic of power. She uses frictions between objects and ideas to stage moments of contradiction and instability, pursuing spaces where art makes more possible than language can hold.

Recent exhibitions include the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DD; the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt in New York City; the Center for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh; the New Mexico Museum of Art; and Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles, CA. Reviews of the work have appeared in Hyperallergic, Art21 Magazine, American Craft, American Art Collector, and Ceramics Monthly. Her work is held in the public collections of the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt; the National Museum of Women in the Arts; the U.S. Department of State; the Albuquerque Museum; and the New Mexico Museum of Art, among others. Residencies include MacDowell, Yaddo, SFAI, Arquetopia, and the Tamarind Institute.

David Vuong

May 28, 2026 by

David Vuong is an interdisciplinary artist who creates sculptures incorporating ceramic, glass, wood, and metal. He is fascinated by how memory constructs the human and connects with his experiences of societal displacement. Through an interest in material and form, he explores the language of vessels for the human and how processes of bodily preservation appear in cultural narratives. He graduated from Alfred University with a BFA and completed a post-bacc in ceramics at Temple University. He is a recipient of the 2025 Haystack artist grant initiative and a former resident at Watershed and Wheaton Arts. He is also a multi-recipient artist grand awardee for material and glaze research. David currently resides in Providence, RI, continuing his sculptural practice as a long-term resident at The Steelyard.

John Shea

May 28, 2026 by

John Shea (b. 1989) works with clay to examine the way objects form relationships and exist in the world. Incorporating geometric and organic forms, his work highlights the constructed boundaries between individual objects and the ways we differentiate between objects and ourselves, seeking to reveal the hidden structures of our world.

Shea holds a Master of Fine Arts and a Master of Arts from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Rochester Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally through prominent galleries, including HostlerBurrows and HB381 in New York and Los Angeles, Officine Saffi in Milan, and Carwan Gallery in Athens. Additionally, his work has been featured in art fairs such as Design Miami, TEFAF, Collect, and Frieze New York. His most recent solo exhibition, full volume, opened in January 2025 at the Walton Art Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Shea currently serves as Assistant Professor of Ceramics at the University of Arkansas – Little Rock, where he has taught since 2021.

Amy Sanders

May 28, 2026 by

Amy Sanders was born in Yueyang, Hunan, China, and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA. She holds a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts with a concentration in Ceramics from West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. In 2022, she completed a year as a post-baccalaureate student at Montana State University in Bozeman, MT. From 2022-2024, she served as a long-term Artist in Residence at the Morean Center for Clay in St. Petersburg, FL. She served as an invited artist at the 2025 winter Pentaculum short-term residency at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg. Recently, Amy attended a Resident Artist program at Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in Shiga, Japan. Amy has appeared in exhibitions nationally and internationally. Her article “Harmonious Pouring Vessels” was included in the September 2025 issue of Ceramics Monthly. Currently, she is attending the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as a Master’s of Fine Arts candidate.

Abbey Peters

May 27, 2026 by

Abbey Peters is currently based in Denver, CO, and serves as the Phipps Visiting Professor of Ceramics at the University of Denver. She holds an MFA in Ceramics from the University of Iowa and a BFA from the University of Arkansas. Her work has been exhibited in over forty group exhibitions across the US and Canada, in addition to recent solo shows at Berea College and UIHC Project Art. Peters has received international research grants supporting projects on reproductive care, seed preservation, and beekeeping in London, UK. She has held technician and teaching roles at Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Snowmass Village, CO), Lillstreet Art Center (Chicago, IL), and Grinnell College (Grinnell, IA). Peters has been awarded residencies at IaRex l’Atelier (St. Raphael, France), the inaugural CIRCA Exchange (Boulder, CO), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), and the Archie Bray Foundation (Helena, MT).