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Winter Residents 2008-2009 Watershed is proud to announce the Winter Resident line-up for 2008-2009! These six artists, have been selected, by a committee of field professionals, for residency at Watershed. Click on an image for more information about that artist. Alyssa Welch - 2009 Salad Days Resident Artist Alyssa Welch holds a MFA from University of Florida and a BFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. She has also been an Artist in Residence at the St. Petersburg Clay Company and a Special Student at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Her work focuses on special service tableware that can help define the occasion, create ritual, evoke memories, refine the human spirit, and enhance the importance of what is being served. Alyssa's work offers the viewer a contrasting humanizing experience, from the fast paced world, believing we have not lost the ability to pause and enjoy a fine setting or a dining experience. Alyssa is also looking forward to being this year Salad Days Artist. Kelly Rathbone - 2009 Howard Kottler Funded Winter Artist-in-Residence Born 1982 in Singapore by American parents, Kelly grew up relocating over 9 times both overseas and in the USA - still, she's a Texan, by choice. Kelly has studied at the Parsons School of Design, School of the Art Institiute of Chicago, Penland School of Crafts, and most recently returned to the states following studies at The Florence Academy of Art. During 2004-2006 she was a Studio Assistant to the sculptress Cristina Cordova. Her work bridges processes in both ceramics and in glass, and was mostly recently in the group exhibition Seven Deadly Sins at Santa Fe Clay, New Mexico. Kelly has two dogs; Bullet, a German-Shorthaired Pointer, and Joonbug, a Redbone Coonhound mix. Andrew Davis -Juried Winter Resident Andrew Perry Davis grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and earned a BFA in 1998 from Winthrop University. In 2002 he earned his MFA from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Since 2004 he has been teaching art at the university level, most recently at Herron School of Art in Indianapolis. Andrew’s work deals with individual dreams hidden beneath the surface of collective human activity. Intentional distortions in his ceramic figures relate to subconscious fears and desires. He has examined aspects of human relationships and social conditioning in sculpture, painting, video, sound, and performance. When displayed together each piece contributes to a larger narrative. Jennifer Holt – Juried Winter Resident Jennifer Holt is originally from Columbus, Ohio. She received her BFA in Sculpture from Ohio University and her MFA in Ceramics from Southern Illinois University- Edwardsville. Holt’s ceramic sculpture and installation has been exhibited in many national juried and invitational exhibitions including: “The NCECA Clay National Biennial”, in Louisville, KY; and “Full & Spare: Ceramics in the 21st Century” at the Museum of Fine Arts at Florida State University. Her work was also featured in Ceramics Monthly Magazine’s “2007 Emerging Artist” issue. Jeffrey Lipton - Juried Winter Resident Jeffrey was born en-route to the hospital in a small town in Maine. Spending much of his youth romping around in the woods and fields around his home he grew up with grass stained knees and clay from nearby streambeds streaked across his clothes. In truth, not much has changed. In high school Jeffrey studied trombone under Scott Reeves and Mark Manduca, which eventually led him to a summer at Interlochen Arts Camp, in Michigan. During his junior year, he traveled to New York City where he was invited to play at Carnegie Hall with the All Eastern Jazz Ensemble. Shortly thereafter, he graduated high school and spent three years extensively traveling the United States by means of hitchhiking and driving. Throughout this period, visual arts were a more accessible pursuit and so in the fall of 2003 he enrolled at the University of Southern Maine. Graduating this past spring with a BFA in Ceramics, Jeffrey spent the last year of school as a studio intern for Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, and most recently spent the summer as a studio manager as a part of Watershed's amazing summer staff. This year, Jeffrey will stay at Watershed as a Juried Winter Resident and is eagerly looking forward to standing in the snow as he fires the soda kiln, in addition to baking bread and cross-country skiing. Elaine McHard - Winter Resident Intern Born in Houston, Texas, Elaine moved to Utah when she was fifteen. It is there that she first saw and was drawn to the majestic canyons in the desert. Elaine has worked for the National Forest Service during the past four summers in Idaho. Her work reflects a love of nature and animals, weather it be in functional or sculptural form. She says, "I have always been close to nature and inspired by it, especially animals." She received her BFA in ceramics from the Kansas City Art Institute and her MFA in ceramics from Alfred University