Late Autumn Featured Artists
Linda Christianson, Stephanie DeArmond, Janina Myronowa, Amy Sanders de Melo, Jewelry Spotlight: Kristen Cliffel
Lindstrom, MN
Linda Christianson
Linda Christianson received her BA from Hamline University (St. Paul, MN) and attended the two-year Ceramic Studio Workshop at the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts (Alberta, Canada). She participates annually in the St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour in Minnesota, where her studio is located. Christianson's wood-fired pieces are not sculpture, but tools of engagement. She is interested in a pot that does its duty well, yet can stand on its own as a visual object. She aims to make a better cup each day.
Minneapolis, MN
Stephanie DeArmond
Stephanie DeArmond studied ceramics at the University of Colorado (Boulder), and has been making handmade ceramics for over twenty years. Using pinched slabs of porcelain, DeArmond carves into the surface of the clay and fills the lines with colored slip. She is inspired by the beauty of wild plants and animals in the Minneapolis parks and natural areas near where she lives. DeArmond is fascinated by the connections and cycles of life made by insects, birds, and plants, and how humans can impact the environment and the tiny lives around us.
Wroclaw, Poland
Janina Myronowa
Janina Myronowa is a designer, painter, and ceramic sculptor who creates narrative through figurative forms and composed backdrops. Utilizing a specific and distorted representation of the body, each composition shows a different personality and personal story to collectively reference a graphic novel and overarching story. Imparting her own emotion through linework, Myronowa’s works are strategically charged with color to saturate and amplify their individual stories.
Tulsa, OK
Amy Sanders de Melo
Amy Sanders de Melo is a Colombian-American artist and educator, living and working in Oklahoma. As a multidisciplinary artist with visual impairments, she strives to create ceramic work and installations that speak to the resiliency of the human spirit. She utilizes Braille on porcelain as a way of telling stories, encouraging meditation, and creating space for grieving and healing. Sanders De Melo received her BFA from the University of Oklahoma where she studied ceramics, sculpture, and filmmaking.
Cleveland, OH
Kristen Cliffel
Kristen Cliffel received her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, Ohio. Identifying as both a wife and a mother, Cliffel engages themes of domestic mythology through her ceramic practice. Central to her exploration is the unfolding of intimate relationships and the fear, hope, belonging, security, and connection associated with them. Cliffel uses visual metaphors and unexpected combinations of sculpted objects to dissect these domestic fairytales and expose their prescribed notions of happiness, fulfillment, and success. The bird is a form returned to throughout her body of work, both wearable and sculptural.
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Candlestick
Vendor:Stephanie DeArmondRegular price $110.00 USDRegular priceUnit price / perSale price $110.00 USD -
Serving Bowl
Vendor:Stephanie DeArmondRegular price $220.00 USDRegular priceUnit price / perSale price $220.00 USD -
Serving Bowl
Vendor:Amy Sanders de MeloRegular price $850.00 USDRegular priceUnit price / perSale price $850.00 USD -
Serving Bowl
Vendor:Amy Sanders de MeloRegular price $725.00 USDRegular priceUnit price / perSale price $725.00 USD





