Resident Artist Focus
Jul 17th - Aug 13th, 2026
Each year The Clay Studio welcomes our new Resident Artists as we bid farewell to Residents moving on to other programs, teaching opportunities, and the next steps in their career. Hello/Goodbye includes the work by exiting Residents are Celia Feldberg, Michael Dika and Soojin Choi, recent Residents Jeanne Robertson, Ruth Easterbrook and Josephine Mette Larsen, continuing Residents Bradford Davis, Dehmie Dehmlow, Adrían Gómez, Jeremiah Ibarra, Daeun Lim, Nicholas Malik, Micah Sweezie, Robert Zumwalt, and two of our incoming resident artists, Arista Wilson and Michelle Solorzano.
The Resident Artist Program focuses on professional development and provides studio space, teaching and exhibition opportunities, and career mentoring. Funding from the WIndgate Foundation, we are able to offer Residents free studio space and a monthly stipend for up to three years. The program is quite competitive and has an international reputation for excellence. Former Residents now sit on the faculties of major colleges and universities nationally, have gallery representation, exhibit their work nationally and internationally, and have their works included in major private and public museum collections. Five Resident Artist alumni have been recipients of Pew Artist Fellowships, our region’s highest honor for individual artistic excellence.
Robert Zumwalt
Medium & Materials:
Porcelain, oxides, glaze
Measurements:
16” x 13” x 3”
Date:
2024
Description:
collection of suspended pottery held with cord
Robert Zumwalt
Medium & Materials:
Porcelain, glaze, cork, acrylic, gouache, ink, rayon, goldleaf
Measurements:
6” x 5.25” x 3”
Robert Zumwalt
Medium & Materials:
Glaze, porcelain, cork, acrylic, gouache
Measurements:
5” x 5” x 1.5”
Robert Zumwalt
Medium & Materials:
Glaze, porcelain, cork
Measurements:
5.75” x 5.75” x 2”
Robert Zumwalt
Medium & Materials:
porcelain, oxides, glaze
Measurements:
4.75” x 3.5” x 2”
Robert Zumwalt
Medium & Materials:
porcelain, oxides, mason stain, steel
Measurements:
10” x 3.5” x 2”
Robert Zumwalt
Medium & Materials:
Porcelain, oxides, steel, plaster, graphite
Measurements:
16.5” x 13” x 1.5”
Michelle Solorzano
Measurements:
"20"" 10.5"" 10"""
Description:
Standing blue figure with hands on hips.
Michelle Solorzano
Measurements:
12" 8" 8"
Description:
Two heads facing each other. Measurements are for each head.
Micah Sweezie
Medium & Materials:
Porcelain
Measurements:
H: 30 x W: 30 x D:11 in.
Date:
2021
Description:
tire
Micah Sweezie
Medium & Materials:
Porcelain
Measurements:
H: 14 x W: 13 x D: 1 in.
Date:
2026
Description:
smaller wall piece
Jeanne Blissett Robertson
Medium & Materials:
Soda-fired porcelain, decal
Measurements:
8.5 x 7.5 x 7
Date:
2026
Description:
Soda-fired glistening part crystal part creature with decal imagery and symbols imprinted
Jeanne Blissett Robertson
Medium & Materials:
Soda-fired black stoneware, 3D printed porcelain, embedded porcelain, silver leaf
Measurements:
18 x 12 x 10
Date:
2026
Description:
Soda-fired black crystal with embedded porcelain whimsical imagery of a moon and branches, 3D printed symbols of a diamond, flower, lettering of 'And Then', silver leaf halos
Jeanne Blissett Robertson
Medium & Materials:
Hand-painted glazed porcelain
Measurements:
20 x 12 x 13
Date:
2025
Description:
Glazed porcelain tall crystal with paintings of a frog, snowflakes, mushroom, and crystal lockett
Jeanne Blissett Robertson
Medium & Materials:
Hand-painted glazed porcelain
Measurements:
11.5 x 25 x 22
Date:
2025
Description:
Glazed porcelain rose-cut diamond like shape crystal with paintings of aquatic life
Ruth Easterbrook
Medium & Materials:
raw clay with flowers
Measurements:
18 x 11 x 3
Description:
Large Oval
Ruth Easterbrook
Medium & Materials:
raw clay with flowers
Measurements:
11 x 11 x 11
Description:
Large Globe Vase
Josephine Mette Larsen
Medium & Materials:
glazed ceramic
Measurements:
42 x 18 x 17
Date:
2026
Description:
Matte blue glazed floor standing cup holder with 2 electric fired white cups
Josephine Mette Larsen
Medium & Materials:
glazed ceramic
Measurements:
42 x 18 x 17
Date:
2026
Description:
Red/oragne underglaze floor standing cup holder with 2 reduction fired gray cups
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