Home Residencies General Summer Sessions Summer Residency Benefit Raffle Summer Fees Winter Residency Meet Winter Residents Salad Days Artist Internship General About Watershed History Facilities Location Directions Watershed Staff Board Members Finances Photo Tour Community Community Overview Firing Workshops Studio Rentals Mudseason Chowdah Suppah Salad Days Mudmobile Events Events Overview Cup of the Month Chowdah Suppah Salad Days SOFA Chicago Collectors' Weekends Firing Workshops Exhibitions General Winter Residents Summer Residents Past Exhibitons Mudmobile General Mudmobile Photos Mudmobile Archive Employment General Summer Staff Year Round Volunteer Links All Links Residents Organizations Publications Businesses Give to Watershed About Giving Printable Donation Card Applications Summer Artists-in-Residence Summer Juried Residency Assistantship Pre- and Post-Sessions Summer Staff Winter Residencies Digital Image Submission Guidelines Contact Us Site Map

Winter Residents 2007-2008 Watershed is proud to announce the Winter Resident line-up for 2007-2008! These six artists, have been selected, by a committee of field professionals, for residency at Watershed. Click on an image for more info about that artist. Adero Willard - 2008 Salad Days Resident Artist Adero holds an MFA in ceramics from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD), Halifax, Nova Scotia, and a BFA in ceramics from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Before she enrolled in NSCAD in 2004, Adero had her own studio in Boston, and she continues to exhibit in different craft venues in New England. She has taught ceramics at the 92nd St YMHA in New York City and at a number of studios and community centers in the Boston area, including Mudflat Pottery Studio in Somerville. Adero is the Salad Days Artist this year at Watershed. In preparing for the event, Adero is exploring the use of low fire in creating her functional and sculptural work. Misty Gamble - Howard Kottler Funded Winter Artist-in-Residence Misty Gamble’s work is inspired by the human figure and its infinite capacity for communication. This makes sense given that, as a child, Misty was immersed in her father’s world of puppetry and the performing arts. Traveling to many parts of the world as a young girl and later as an adult, has also made an indelible impact on her life and work. In 1998, Misty was invited to be the first American to perform in Iran (since 1979) at the 7th International Puppet Festival in Tehran. Gamble’s current work, life-size ceramic figurative sculptures, focuses attention on issues surrounding femininity and challenges conventional standards of morality, normalcy and propriety. She has taught figure sculpture classes and intends to teach in a university art program. Misty recently received the National Conference for the Education of Ceramic Arts Graduate Award in Excellence and the Ellice T. Johnston Scholarship for Ceramic Arts, awarded yearly to one ceramics student from the Northern California or Oregon area. In September, Misty arrived in Maine as a recipient of Watershed's first Howard Kottler Funded Winter Artist-in-Residence. Misty received her MFA in Ceramics from San Francisco State University in the spring of 2007. Daniel Ricardo Teran -Juried Winter Resident Daniel recently received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. While working towards his BFA, he attended workshops at Pigeon Lake, Wisconsin (with Randy Johnson) and Anderson Ranch in Snowmass, CO (with Bonnie Seeman and Sarah Jaeger). In 2005 his education took him abroad to the International Ceramics Studio in Kecskemet, Hungary. This summer Daniel visited his father's homeland of Ecuador. In researching and experiencing the ceramic arts of Ecuador, he became interested in investigating non-wheel methods of forming vessels. Daniel makes functional ceramic vessels that act as stages for narratives concerning human morality and consciousness. Elisavet (Elli) Papatheodorou – Juried Winter Resident Born in Vancouver, Canada, Elli grew up in Greenville, SC. She received her BFA from Alfred University in 2006. A first time visitor to Maine, her travels have taken her to Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Snowmass Village, CO), Mali, West Africa, and Monterrey, Mexico. Her work explores the meaning of repetitive motion. Through repeated touch, she builds units that grow and multiply to form a greater whole. The resulting structures stand somewhere between order and chaos, growth and destruction. Krisaya Luenganantakul - Juried Winter Resident Krisaya Luenganantakul is a ceramic sculptor and instructor. She has taught at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand for three years and will return following her winter residency at Watershed. Krisaya grew up in a suburb of Bangkok where she developed an interest in hand crafts and a love of nature. In her sculptures and installations, she utilizes the image of a woman’s ovary to represent beauty, warmth, and comfort found in the feminine spirit. Krisaya earned two undergraduate degrees, a Bachelors of Art Education in Thailand and a B.F.A. in Ceramic Arts at University of Oregon. In 2004, Krisaya completed her M.F.A. at the School for American Crafts at Rochester Institute of Technology. Monica Leap - Juried Winter Resident Born and raised in New Hampshire, Monica is finally returning home to New England. A recent B.F.A. graduate of Syracuse University, in Central New York, she spent her summers working with art centers across the country and in Italy. Travels have taken her to the Penland School for Craft, the Anderson Ranch Art Center, La Meridiana, and the Cub Creek Foundation. She is now coming to rest at Watershed for a winter residency. Her current body of work explores the idea of the figure on a vessel form, such that it is mysterious yet revealing, delicate yet powerful, and self-narrative yet universal. In addition to being a studio ceramist, Monica plans to open an art center in the years following her residency. Located either in an inner city or in the country, it will offer ceramics classes to low-income children and adults with the hope that they, too, can experience clay and all its potential. Keep your eyes out!