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Nathan Bray, Joshua Hebbert, Monica Rudquist, Sandra Daulton Shaughnessy
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Nathan Bray, Joshua Hebbert, Monica Rudquist, Sandra Daulton Shaughnessy
About the Artists
Nathan Bray
Iron, MN
Nathan Bray received his BFA in ceramics from Bemidji State University in 2009. He has taught in multiple facilities, including the Carbondale Clay Center and Bemidji State University. Bray says that, to him, teaching means to drive process in his personal practice. He finds inspiration for his work in the plasticity of clay and in his passion for electricity, flowers, music, graphic art, and pop art. He uses a variety of colored slips and glazes to activate the surfaces of his terracotta pottery. Bray describes his method of making as stream of consciousness, driven by the continuous flow of new techniques and ideas.
Joshua Hebbert
Bornholm, Denmark
Originally from rural western Nebraska, Joshua Hebbert now lives in Bornholm, Denmark, where he is the ceramic technician for the Royal Danish Academy. He received his BFA at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska and his MFA from the University of Colorado-Boulder. Before relocating to Denmark, he spent six years in Philadelphia, where he was a resident at The Clay Studio and taught at a variety of institutions, including the Maryland Institute College of Art. Hebbert’s ceramic practice is centered on experimentation and mold making as a generative process to create slip cast vessels with organically mottled colors. His process includes using plaster molds to capture prototypes, then layering colored slips to reflect and play with different moments of interior and exterior space. After taking slip cast pots out of their molds, Hebbert carves off the outer layer, unearthing unpredictable shapes and patterns. He poetically likens this process to constellations becoming visible in the night sky—shapes shift and evolve and transform.
Monica Rudquist
Minneapolis, MN
Monica Rudquist fell in love with clay and the wheel at age twelve. She counts herself lucky to have had many mentors along the way including Ron Gallas, Jun Kaneko, Gail Kristensen, Mike Norman, and Judy Onofrio. Rudquist received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI) and her BA at Macalester College (St. Paul, MN). She has been a part of NCC since its beginnings and is currently co-president of Minnesota Women’s Ceramic Artists (MNWCA). She teaches at St. Catherine University (St. Paul, MN).
Her porcelain pieces explore the space between function and sculpture. Rudquist’s work has been included in group and solo exhibitions throughout the country—notably, including a 40-foot wall installation made from over 1,000 pieces of wheel-thrown porcelain at the headquarters of LifeSource (Minneapolis, MN).
Sandra Daulton Shaughnessy
Minnetonka, MN
“I describe my clay work as ‘ceremoniously functional,’ meaning there is an element of ritual involved while using my handmade pottery. Many of my pieces have an altered quality that expresses the softness of the clay and the atmospheric soda firing process. The imagery I use is a combination of tape or wax resist & glaze. Techniques inspired by both the rural landscape of northern Minnesota and the cityscapes of Minneapolis, both locations where I live and work with clay!
I studied ceramics at the University of Northern Iowa (Cedar Falls), University of New Mexico (Albuquerque), and received a MFA in ceramics from Eastern Michigan University (Ypsilanti) in 1985. Currently, I am a full-time potter at Clayhouse Pottery, in Ottertail, Minnesota, firing high temperature stoneware, gas/soda and electric kilns.
My studio practice is an integral part of my life generating rhythm, expression, mindfulness and a never-ending desire to create!”