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Linda Christianson, Stephanie DeArmond, Janina Myronowa, Amy Sanders de Melo
Jewelry Spotlight: Kristen Cliffel
Late Autumn Featured Artists: Linda Christianson, Stephanie DeArmond, Janina Myronowa, Amy Sanders de Melo
Jewelry Spotlight: Kristen Cliffel
About the Artists
Linda Christianson
Lindstrom, Minnesota
Linda Christianson received her BA from Hamline University (St. Paul, MN) and attended the two-year Ceramic Studio Workshop at the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts (Alberta, Canada). She participates annually in the St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour in Minnesota, where her studio is located. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Minnesota State Arts Board, as well as two McKnight Foundation fellowships from Northern Clay Center. Christianson’s subtle, spontaneous work is found in collections across North America and is exhibited widely. Her wood-fired pieces are not sculpture, but engaging tools. Christianson is interested in a pot that does its duty well, yet can stand on its own as a visual object. She aims to make a better cup each day.
Stephanie DeArmond
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Stephanie DeArmond studied ceramics at the University of Colorado (Boulder), and has been making handmade ceramics for over twenty years. DeArmond’s work has been shown in many venues including the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN), Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum (New York City), and the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), and in publications such as Ceramics Monthly, American Craft, and Elle Magazine. Using pinched slabs of porcelain, DeArmond carves into the surface of the clay and fills the lines with colored slip, centering craft and the object in her work. She is inspired by the beauty of wild plants and animals in the Minneapolis parks and natural areas near where she lives, and uses their imagery as metaphors for human conditions. DeArmond is fascinated by the connections and cycles of life made by insects, birds, and plants, and how humans can impact the environment and the tiny lives around us even if we cannot see them.
Janina Myronowa
Wroclaw, Poland
Janina Myronowa (Wroclaw, Poland) is a designer, painter, and ceramic sculptor who creates narrative through figurative forms and composed backdrops. Utilizing a specific and distorted representation of the body, each composition shows a different personality and personal story to collectively reference a graphic novel and arcing story. Imparting her own emotion through linework, Myronowa’s works are strategically charged with color to saturate and amplify their individual stories.
Myronowa received her MFA from the Department of Ceramic Art at Lviv National Academy of Fine Arts (Lviv, Ukraine) in 2012, an MFA in 2013 and PhD in 2019 from the Department of Ceramics and Glass at The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts and Design (Wroclaw, Poland). Continually developing her work and practice, Myronowa has attended numerous residencies including opportunities at the New Taipei Yingge Ceramics Mususm (New Taipei, Taiwan), Clayarch Gimhae Musem (Gimhae-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea), Lefebvre and Fils (Paris, France), the Polish Sculpture Centre (Oronsko, Poland), and the International Ceramic Research Center (Guldagergaard, Denmark). During her time in academia and residencies, she has held the titles of head of ceramics studio at Instytut Dizajnu w Kielcach (Kielce, Poland) in 2014 and 2015, and assistant professor at Academy of Art and Design (Wroclaw, Poland).
Amy Sanders de Melo
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Amy Sanders de Melo is a Colombian-American artist and educator, living and working in Oklahoma. As a multidisciplinary artist with visual impairments, she strives to create ceramic work and installations that speak to the resiliency of the human spirit. She utilizes Braille on porcelain as a way of telling stories, encouraging meditation, and creating space for grieving and healing.
She received her BFA from the University of Oklahoma where she studied ceramics, sculpture, and filmmaking. In 2015, she spent two months in Italy completing an artist residency and collaborating with international artists on public art mosaics. Sanders de Melo is a recipient of the inaugural Emerging Artist Cohort from the American Craft Council in 2021 and The Color Network + Arrowmont Fellowship in 2023.
Kristen Cliffel
Cleveland, Ohio
Kristen Cliffel received her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art (Cleveland, OH). In 2015, she was awarded the Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. There was no shortage of artistic imprint during Cliffel’s childhood: art lined the walls of the family home and there was a castle in the basement where live mice ran around in tunnels. Now identifying as both a wife and a mother, Cliffel engages themes of domestic mythology through her ceramic practice. Central to her exploration is the unfolding of intimate relationships and the fear, hope, belonging, security, and connection associated with them. Cliffel uses visual metaphors and unexpected combinations of sculpted objects to dissect these domestic fairytales and expose their prescribed notions of happiness, fulfillment, and success. The bird is a form returned to throughout her body of work, both wearable and sculptural.