Amber Hamblin
I was born and raised in San Diego, California but now live about twenty miles east of my childhood home in a city called El Cajon. I live with my husband, dad and fur children in a quiet neighborhood called Fletcher Hills. I grew up doing all the stereotypical southern California activities. My down time […]
Brent Pafford
I grew up on a family farm in Rock Hill, SC and completed my BFA at Winthrop University and an MFA from Clemson University. Since the completion of my MFA I have operated studios in New Orleans, LA; Washington, DC; and I currently live and work in Eugene, OR. I create objects that elicit inquiry. […]
Mark Vander Heide
As a child, growing up in Holland, MI, I was an avid drawer, often creating fantastical creatures and the worlds they lived in. It wasn’t until my last year of college, while studying sociology, that I found my way to the ceramics studio and the world of clay, where my art practice is currently rooted. The years […]
Dominique Mediak-Pirigyi
Hi! I’m Dominique Mediak-Pirigyi, an artist and art educator from Buffalo, NY. I’m so excited to have a piece entitled “Stacked” in this year’s The Cup, The Mug exhibit. I am fairly new to the ceramics scene, and this is my second time exhibiting at Main Street Arts. Though I have moved throughout the artistic […]
Hedy Yang
I am a 21 year old artist at Michigan State University, majoring in ceramics and minoring in entrepreneurship. I started a small business in college, and plan on growing it after I graduate in May of 2018. Believe it or not, my career as an artist started pretty unintentionally. My high school required that we take […]
Paul Frazer
“Forever a journey” I have been creating and teaching art for the majority of my life. I learned to work on the potter’s wheel at a very early age. I was amazed at the process of taking soft clay, throwing it on this contraption, spinning it, and creating a pot. When I learned about the […]
End of 2017 Edition
It’s the end of the year, so naturally we are getting into a reflective mood and reminiscing about all of the great things that happened at the gallery in 2017. This is also a time when we start to get really excited about new things on the horizon in the year to come. If you […]
Sam Lopez
I was born and raised in a small dairy town in Riverside County called Mira Loma just one hundred miles north of my current home in San Diego. As a kid, I spent most of my spare time in my dad’s leather shop either helping sew up saddles or struggling along with my own projects. Working […]
Jillian Cooper
I spent my early childhood growing up in Manchester, New Hampshire and then moved to Lubbock, Texas where I remained for 20 years. I earned my MFA with concentrations in Ceramics and Metalsmithing/Jewelry from Texas Tech University in 2015. Currently, I am living in Plano, Texas where I work at Collin College as the Ceramics Lab Coordinator. I enjoy […]
Renee LoPresti
Renee’s cups are on view in our juried exhibition “The Cup, The Mug: A National Juried Exhibition of Drinking Vessels”. “I was born and raised in rural Northwestern New Jersey and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the New York State School of Ceramics at Alfred University. Currently, I live in San Marcos, […]