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waiting for someone to discover them. Holzem has shown their ceramic work regionally, most recently at the University of Wisconsin – Stout.

Additional work by Holzem can be found on Instagram at @carleyholzempots.

Harry Malesovas

Harry Malesovas has been making art under the name CHUM for the last five years. He began finding his style in drawing and painting, making compositions comprising monsters that spawn from his imagination. These monsters take on many interpretations but are primarily a means of bringing complex internal emotions outward for the world to see. Malesovas had never used the medium prior to attending his first ceramics class at the University of North Carolina Asheville. There, he found his true calling and decided to leave his history major behind in a pursuit of a BFA with a concentration in ceramics. As he worked towards his BFA, he fell in love with the medium and how it allowed him to bring his fantastical creatures to life.

To Malesovas, being able to not only bring a creation from his mind to paper, but then bring a creation from paper to physical form, is incredibly special. "The relationship between a 3D object that takes up space and the viewer is like no other."

Additional work by Malesovas can be found on Instagram at @chum_art.

Akshar Patel

Akshar “Shar” Patel is an early career artist based in North Florida. Patel has been applying his unique stamp to the medium ever since he was first introduced to clay in 2010. His inspiration arises from multiple facets of his life including the natural environment, South Asian culture, and studies in botany and marine invertebrates. Since 2020, Patel’s work has focused on porcelain slab-building that showcases hours of meticulous surface work through various layers of techniques and slightly altered forms. Prominent motifs that have become iconic of Patel’s work, are southern magnolia, bird of paradise, passionflower, plumeria, lotus, and water lily.

In 2020, Patel and his sister, Krishna Patel started their ceramics business, Baum Road Studios, where they travel to fine art festivals across the South and East coast to showcase their individual works. As of mid-2022, Patel’s work has further ventured into jewelry in the form of one-of-a-kind porcelain earrings and pendants that are hand-incised with patterns and illustrations, then brushed with multiple layers of precious metal lusters that match the handmade fastenings.

Patel was selected as an Emerging Artist Award Recipients for the 2022 Fine Art Festival of Ocala for his jewelry. His work has been shown in exhibitions across the country and can regularly be found in galleries and boutiques throughout Florida as well as in Thomasville, Georgia and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Additional work by Patel can be found on Instagram at @baum.road.studios.

Pottery Museum Of Red Wing Award

This award is made possible by the Pottery Museum of Red Wing, and is presented by Northern Clay Center to a deserving individual pursuing a career in pottery, or studying the historical aspects of the pottery industry. The Museum endeavors to broaden the appreciation of pottery, past and present, for the general public and maintains the Pottery Museum of Red Wing (@potterymuseumrw) in Red Wing, Minnesota. Work samples by past recipients can be found on display within the collection of the museum which has no admission fee.

Clarice Allgood

A somewhat unconventional ceramic history of workshops, open studios, and unofficial residencies led Allgood to Minnesota in 2018. In 2019, she graduated from the advanced certificate program MN NICE and was the 2020 Fogelberg Fellow at Northern Clay Center. From a free-spirited, traveling childhood and her academic education in philosophy comes a perspective