Kathy Maves maintains a ceramics studio and pottery outside of Menomonie, in Northwestern Wisconsin, USA. Her current work combines an adaptation of book arts-style marbling for the ceramics surface, traditional studio pottery forms and techniques, and digitally developed imagery. The results are an abstract expressionistic exploration of ceramic forms and surfaces. Her experiences in ceramics include training in the tradition of the upper Midwest’s “Mingeisota” style, production pottery work, wood-fired kiln building and studio work, and experimental ceramics research. Her current work focuses on themes of community through project-based commissions, custom dinnerware, and idea-driven experimental functional ceramics. Maves lectures at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in ceramics and 3-D art. Her work is available through Bell Street Gallery on Madeline Island, The Brickyard Gallery in Shell Lake, WI, and at exhibitions and events.
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