Maggie Jaszczak is a potter and mixed-media artist originally from Ontario, Canada. She completed her undergraduate studies at Kootenay School of Arts (Nelson, British Columbia) and Alberta College of Art + Design (Calgary), and earned her MFA in ceramics from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Jaszczak has participated in ceramic residency programs at the New Taipei Ceramics Museum (Taiwan), the Archie Bray Foundation (Helena, MT), Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Snowmass, CO), and Medalta Potteries (Medicine Hat, AB). After a three-year residency at Penland School of Crafts (NC), she and her husband moved to Minnesota where they work as studio artists.

Jeff Oestreich received his education at Bemidji State University (MN), the University of Minnesota, Twin cities, and at the Bernard Leach Pottery (St. Ives, EN). He has exhibited and taught throughout the United States, as well as in New Zealand. Oestreich is well known for his functional stoneware pots. Wheel-thrown and altered, the minimally-glazed work is fired in a soda kiln at his residence and studio near Taylors Falls, Minnesota.

Kate Marotz received her BFA in ceramics and BS in art education from the University of Wisconsin-Stout (Menomonie). Since 2015, she has been teaching high school art while simultaneously pursuing and exploring her own studio practice. Her current work bridges sculpture and functionality with pinched stoneware objects inspired by seed pods, chrysalides, shells, and other vessels of natural origin. The surfaces of her objects are painted with terra sigillata in calm, muted versions of both earthy and jewel-toned colors. Marotz’s pieces are ridged, speckled, playful, and precarious. They emanate the energy of creatures from a biome at the junction of desert and ocean, at once feeling newborn and contemporary, treasured and ancient.