Late Autumn Featured Artists

Maggie Jaszczak, Lee Love, Monica Rudquist, Sandra Daulton Shaughnessy Jewelry Spotlight: Isabel Souza

October 10 – November 5

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Maggie Jaszczak

Shafer, MN

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 at 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, Montana), Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Snowmass, Colorado), and Medalta Potteries (Medicine Hat, Alberta). After a three-year residency at Penland School of Crafts (North Carolina), she and her husband moved to Minnesota where they work as studio artists.

Lee Love Minneapolis, MN

“I make and use handmade functional pottery as an antidote to the modern tendency toward the use of things made by machine, things made without heart or beauty, for the mere goal of profit. What makes human beings unique? Not our ability to make things—insects can do this; nor our ability to reason—in the near future, machines will be able to do this. What makes human beings unique is our ability to recognize and cherish beauty. My goal is to make things for everyday use that allow users to s-l-o-w d-o-w-n, take a breath, and observe the natural beauty that surrounds them.”

Monica Rudquist

Minneapolis, MN

Monica Rudquist received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan) where she worked with Jun Kaneko. She received her BFA at Macalester College (St. Paul, Minnesota), where she worked with both Gail Kristensen and Ron Gallas. She currently teaches at St. Catherine University (St. Paul, Minnesota). Her functional and sculptural pieces in porcelain have been included in many group and solo exhibitions throughout the country and are in many public and private collections.

Sandra Daulton Shaughnessy St. Louis Park, MN

Sandra Daulton Shaughnessy received a BFA from the University of Northern Iowa (Cedar Falls), and an MFA from Eastern Michigan University (Ypsilanti). Shaughnessy creates ceremoniously functional wheel thrown and handbuilt pottery. She often uses clay slips and lively brushwork to create active surfaces. Shaughnessy currently works out of her studio in St. Louis Park and the Clayhouse Pottery (Ottertail, Minnesota).

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Jewelry Spotlight: Isabel Souza Truro, MA

Isabel Souza is a ceramic artist and teacher based in Truro, Massachusetts. Souza graduated with a BFA from Syracuse University (New York) in 2019. She pursued several mediums including ceramics, textile design, silkscreen, and fashion photography. During a semester abroad in Florence, Italy, Souza cultivated new ideas around craftsmanship, art, and fashion that she would use to inform her own work. After graduating, she returned to her hometown on Cape Cod to pursue her dream of establishing a ceramics business. Souza’s goal as a ceramic artist is to create functional handmade objects that hold stories and add meaning to our surroundings. Her designs aim to feel personal in how they interact with the human body—whether it is a mug that we hold to our lips and cradle in our hands for warmth, a serving bowl that is passed between loved ones at a dinner table, or a pair of vibrant earrings that we thread through our ears on special occasions.

THESE EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

AUGUST

1 Registration opens for fall classes, 10 am August Featured Artists opens, 10 am

20 Seven McKnight Artists closes

27 August Featured Artists closes

SEPTEMBER

8 - 10 American Pottery Festival

8 APF Opening Night, 6 - 9 pm Members Hour, 5 pm

12 Early Autumn Featured Artists opens

23 Coastal Sweetgrass: Clay & Land & Craft and The Skin of the Pot: Works by Lily Fein open

OCTOBER

8 Early Autumn Featured Artists closes AAH: A Mug with Your Mug, 9 am - 12 pm

10 Late Autumn Featured Artists opens

11 Workshop: Andrea Cayetano-Jefferson and Ashlyn Pope from Coastal Sweetgrass: Clay & Land & Craft, TBD

12 Artist panel: Coastal Sweetgrass: Clay & Land & Craft, 5 pm

Reception: Coastal Sweetgrass: Clay & Land & Craft and The Skin of the Pot: Works by Lily Fein, 6 - 8 pm

13 Artist talk: Lily Fein, 5 pm

NOVEMBER

5 Late Autumn Featured Artists closes Coastal Sweetgrass: Clay & Land & Craft and The Skin of the Pot: Works by Lily Fein close

19 Winter Exhibition and MN Graduates open Winter Open House, 12 - 4 pm

26 AAH: Winter Gift-Making Extravaganza, 1 - 4 pm

DECEMBER

5 AAH: Looking and Learning, 6 - 7 pm

24 Winter Exhibition and MN Graduates close

All event times are Central.