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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
Biography
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General Services: Freelance Writing, Commissioned Work, Workshops, Art Criticism, Panelist (Peer Review)
Additional Artist Web sites:
  www.kaht.com
www.geocities.com/kentucky_clay/
 
Experience in Arts Education:
  Grade Level: College
Type of Experience and/or Past Schools and School Districts: Workshops and Lectures:
"Approaching Galleries" & "The Artist's Self Critique" workshops-Dairy Barn. 2004
"Into White - Carving Porcelain" - Workshop & Lecture, Centre College.
"Life After Graduate School"- Lecture, Ohio University. 2002
Porcelain workshops, 1986-1996 - John C. Campbell Folk School
Prestonsburg Community College & Floyd County Schools.
 
Community art participation:
  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.
Five Woman Public Mural -"Patterns of Culture" in Berea, KY. Mural painted on the side of the headquarters of MACED in Berea, Kentucky, 2000
Facilitator - Kentucky Arts Council Community Forums- 2002
Arts Consultant with "Arts Kentucky" - Kentucky Peer Advisory Network
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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