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green porcelain bottle
Washi Patterns
two joined bowls of porecelain
"Double White" Bowl
porcelain with white glaze three bowls together
"Triplets" Bowl
white porcelain teapot
Amber Carved Teapot and Bead
Pottery by Gwen Heffner
Carved Green Teapot
Pottery by Gwen Heffner
Double Cuts
 
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Gwen Heffner
Craft - Clay
Irvine, KY
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General Services: Commissioned Work, Master Class, Mentoring, Panelist (Peer Review), Consulting

Additional Artist Web sites:
  www.southernhighlandguild.org
www.geocities.com/kentucky_clay/
 
Classroom Experience:
  Grade Level: College
Past Experience:

Workshops and Lectures:
"A New Customer - A New Day" - KY Arts Council;  "Approaching Galleries" & "The Artist's Self Critique" workshops-Dairy Barn;  "Into White - Low Relief Carved Porcelain" - Workshop & Lecture, Centre College;
"Life After Graduate School"- Lecture, Ohio University; Porcelain workshops, 1986-1996 - John C. Campbell Folk School;  Prestonsburg Community College & Spalding University


Experience in Public Art:
  Type of art: Permanent Installation

Community art participation:
 

Grant Panelist/ Juror: Individual Artist and arts organization grants, craft fair juror,  Editor/Independent Writer: arts organizations and magazines;Independent Curator for such venues as The Ohio Craft Museum, The Asheville Art Museum, Southern Highland Craft Guild, Appalachian Center for Crafts, and Lexington Art League, Juror for regional exhibitions;
Facilitator - Kentucky Arts Council Community Forums/ South-East Regional Arts Organizations
Arts Consultant with Kentucky Peer Advisory Network (KY Arts Council)
Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea - PR/Programming/Curator of Exhibits - (2003 - present)


Awards:
 

"Al Smith Fellowship" - Kentucky Arts Council
"Early Times Scholarship" - Kentucky Museum of Arts & Design
"Corsaw Collection" -International Ceramics Museum at Alfred, NY
"Ceramics Monthly Magazine" - permanent collection

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