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Will Dickert, Karin Kraemer, Andrew Rivera, Andy Shaw
January Featured Artists: Will Dickert, Karin Kraemer, Andrew Rivera, Andy Shaw
About the Artists
Will Dickert
Candler, NC
Will Dickert is a studio potter and educator in Asheville, NC. He creates stoneware pottery and vessels in his shared studio space situated among a vibrant community of makers and artists along the French Broad River. He was raised in Bristol, VA—the middle of three brothers—and has a strong affinity and love for the people and natural environment of the Southern Appalachian region and Blue Ridge Mountains. He completed a BA with a focus in ceramics from the University of North Carolina (Asheville), and as a post baccalaureate student received a North Carolina Art Education licensure. Teaching and exposing his community to the craft and art of clay is a passion that continues to play a significant role in his involvement in the arts as a whole. His work is wood-fired using a variety of techniques and kilns, both traditional and contemporary in design and effect. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally and is represented in a number of private and public collections. Dickert enjoys live music, vegetable gardening, hiking and backpacking, summer camps, cooking, eating, Jeopardy!, tennis, beer, baseball, skiing, and is a new parent of two boys with his brilliant and beautiful wife.
Karin Kraemer
Duluth, MN
Karin Kraemer grew up in Minneapolis. She holds a BFA in hot glass from St. Cloud State University and an MFA in ceramics from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. She has lived all over the country, working and exploring, but says she loves Minnesota best. “Coming back to the north woods really has been coming home,” she says. “I moved to Duluth, Minnesota, several years ago. I love to camp, be in the woods, work in the garden, and cook. These things all come together in my work: it celebrates everything from individual flowers in my garden to landscape, good friends, and making food.” Kraemer owns Duluth Pottery Studio and Gallery in the Lincoln Park Crafts District.
Andrew Rivera
Hutchinson, MN
Andrew Rivera received his BFA in ceramics and sculpture from the University of Minnesota Duluth and completed the Minnesota New Institute for Ceramic Education (MN NICE) program at Northern Clay Center (Minneapolis, MN). He completed a long-term residency at The Clay Studio of Missoula. Rivera currently works out of his home studio and teaches ceramics in the Twin Cities area. Inspired by function, history, design, and culture, his wares reflect on personal identity and his Mexican heritage.
Andy Shaw
Winterville, NC
Andy Shaw teaches ceramics at East Carolina University (Greenville, NC). His creative projects include the Mid-Atlantic Keramik Exchange (Reykjavik Iceland), the Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge) Ceramics Factory production studio, and co-directing the Queeramics Symposium (LSU). Shaw has completed artist residencies at the SÍM Residency (Reykjavik) and Íshús Hafnarfjarðar (Iceland), the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Halifax), The Clay Studio of Philadelphia as the 2007 Evelyn Shapiro Foundation Fellow, Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts (Helena, MT), Arrowmont School of Crafts (Gaitlinburg, TN), and as a McKnight Artist Residency for Ceramic Artists fellow at Northern Clay Center.