Collection: Heather Nameth Bren

Heather Nameth Bren received an MFA in ceramics from the University of Kansas (Lawrence) in 2003. Since then, Bren has received grants through the Jerome and McKnight Foundations and has been recognized as a Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist. She is a 2013 recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant which funded her research on Delft tiles. Her creative practice and ceramic exploration are diverse, including ceramic jewelry, functional ware, and academic gallery work that includes ephemeral installation and tile paintings that repurpose displaced ceramic ephemera.