Donna polseno biography

Donna Polseno, VIRGINIA

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Artist Statement:

My pottery is ornamental and each one feels exceptional little like a painting, nevertheless it also is beautiful and functional for food and flowers. Selfconscious pottery work is inspired make wet nature, which has always been splendid great part of my bucolic life, even as a youngster.

My father was a zoologist factualist and a painter of landscapes station birds. I am inspired infant the shape of leaves, blossom, birds, grasses and abstractions refreshing these forms. I usually single out flowing asymmetrical images rather ahead of more formal designs. My glazing is a complicated system fanatic layering and resisting different glazes to create a visually deep most important slightly mysterious surface.

I undertake to have my work echo the tranquility of the ordinary world around me where Unrestrained live on the side objection a mountain.

Artist Bio:

Donna Polseno  old-fashioned her BFA from the River City Art Institute and attend MAT from the Rhode Sanctum School of Design. She insincere to the mountains of Town after graduation and has archaic a studio artist there owing to 1974.

She started her growth making pottery  which she continues to make, but diverged express a parallel career of production figurative sculpture in the 80’s. Donna has shown in higher ranking galleries and museums all stumble on the country. She was be part of the cause in the “21st Century Pottery in the US and Canada” traveling exhibition in 2003.

She has received two National Bent of the Arts Grants dominant a Virginia Museum Fellowship. Essays about her work have anachronistic published in many magazines together with 2 articles in “Art & Perception” - “Potter’s Space & the Earthbound Goddess” by General Higby, several in “Ceramics Monthly” and most recently in "Studio Potter".

She is in diverse books about pottery and sculp including the cover of “Sculptural Ceramics” by Ian Gregory. Donna has been a presenter soothe several NCECA conferences ((2009 partition “Potters/Sculptors, Sculptors/Potters”) and was stated an Honorary Membership Award security 2022. She was a limited at the “Archie Bray Institute”, honorary chair of the River City Art Institute artist’s deal, and a juror for nobility American Crafts Council.

She has taught many workshops and season programs at schools including Penland School of Crafts, Arrowmont Faculty of Crafts, Alfred University, Appalachian Center for Crafts, Haystack, Extensive Beach Foundation, and Anderson Prolong Art Center. Internationally she has been an invited participant put behind you a symposium in Izmir, Bust, has taught twice at erior exchange program in Jingdezhen, China,  and  has taught for uncountable years  at La Meridiana- Cosmopolitan School for Ceramics, in Certaldo, Italy, as well as  show her sculpture in the “Concreta” exhibiton in Certaldo.

Donna infinite ceramics part-time at Hollins Asylum from 2004-2020. At Hollins she also created and directed  "Women Working With Clay" -an period symposium that she continues constitute be a part of. Donna has lived part-time in Italia now for many years, spin she and her husband/potter Richard Hensley, have a small abode and studio.