Artist: Julia Walther
Julia Walther, WASHINGTON D.C.
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Pots are one of the many daily choices we make to build our lives, and I hope to create nudges of humor and delight by having my work in the homes and lives of others. Using imagery of cacti, clouds, and constellations, I think about the myths, categories, and stories we create out of nothing to explain our experiences and surroundings. This cycle of observing, creating, and observing again is what makes us human. I make the work my hands crave, handling the clay at many stages to imbue all the joy I can into each object. My hope is that the energy I generate is carried through the firing and out into the world into kitchen cabinets everywhere.
BIOGRAPHY
Julia Walther is a ceramic artist living and working in Washington, D.C. She received a B.A. in Art History at Carleton College in Northfield, MN, and spent a year in the post-baccalaureate ceramics program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has worked as an educational assistant at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, taught community classes at Pewabic Pottery in Detroit, and most recently completed a two-year residency at John Glick's Plum Tree Pottery in Farmington Hills, MI. She is currently a resident artist at Red Dirt Studio in Mt. Rainier, MD.
EDUCATION
University of Colorado at Boulder, Special Student, Post-Baccalaureate Ceramics (2010 - 2011)
Carleton College, Bachelor of Arts in Art History, magna cum laude (2006 - 2010)
Associated Colleges of the Midwest, Renaissance Art History, Florence, Italy (Fall 2008)
RESIDENCIES
Red Dirt Studio, Artist-in-Residence, Mt. Rainier, MD (January 2015 – Present)
District Clay, Artist-in-Residence, Washington, D.C. (September 2014 – December 2014)
John Glick's Plum Tree Pottery, Artist-in-Residence, Farmington Hills, MI (August 2012 - September 2014)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Penland School of Crafts, Studio Assistant to Kip O’Krongly, Investigating Earthenware, Form to Surface (Summer 2015)
Pewabic Pottery, Instructor, Detroit, MI (2011 - 2012)
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Educational Associate, Gatlinburg, TN (Summer 2011)
EXHIBITIONS
2015 Drink This!: The Workhouse International Ceramic Cup Show, Workhouse Arts Center,
Lorton, VA
Apprenticelines, Pawtucket Armory, Pawtucket, RI
Yunomi Invitational 2015, AKAR Design, Iowa City, IA
2014 Red Dirt Studio Holiday Exhibit and Sale, Mt. Rainier, MD
Seventh Annual Cup Show: Form and Function, Gulf Coast State College, Panama City, FL
Crafting the Cocktail, Craft in America Center, Los Angeles, CA
Women's Work, Freehand Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Cup: The Intimate Object X, Charlie Cummings Gallery, Gainesville, FL
Midwestern Educators and Students, NCECA Expo 2014, Lillstreet Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2013 Cup: The Intimate Object IX, Charlie Cummings Gallery, Gainesville, FL
Tabletop 2013, The Art League, Alexandria, VA
Mentorship, The Niklas Gallery, Seattle, WA
Small Favors VIII, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Michigan Ceramics 2012, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Bloomfield, MI
Serve It Up: Just Desserts!, Yourist Studio, Ann Arbor, MI
Pour, Starkweather Arts Center, Romeo, MI
Cups of Fire National Cup Show, Clay Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
2011 Starbrick Clay National Cup Show, Starbrick Gallery, Nelsonville, OH
New Work, Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, Boulder, CO
Behind the Scenes: Emerging Arrowmont, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts,
Gatlinburg, TN
Plinth Gallery and Anderson Ranch: A Ceramic Collaboration, Plinth Gallery, Denver, CO
Third National Cup Show, LUX Center for the Arts, Lincoln, NE
2010 Teabowl National, Kansas City Clay Guild, Kansas City, MO
Foot in the Door 4, Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
First Fruits, Carleton College Athenaeum, Northfield, MN
Farm House Art Show, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Outside the Lines, Carleton College, Northfield, MN