Miki Shim
White stoneware, Oxidation, Cone 10
7 x6.5 x 6.5"
2020
Statement
I found working in my home studio a bit lonely a few months into the Shelter-in-Place order. So, I asked my, artist/graphic designer/software designer, husband if he would like to collaborate with me in hopes to spend some quality time together. Several months of form, surface and glaze explorations developed into several series of collections. This Blue Covered Jar is part of the Urban Garden series exploring hand carved designs reminiscent of our patio garden.
Biography
Miki Shim-Rutter is a SF Bay Area small batch potter, working from her home studio in San Carlos, CA. She is part-time staff and teaches adults classes at the Palo Alto Arts Center, and adult class instructor at Clayroom SF and at Wilson Park Ceramics in Cupertino. Miki is an active member and have served on the board o Association of Clay and Glass Artists of California (ACGA) and Orchard Valley Ceramics Art Guild (OVCAG). She has exhibited locally and abroad, and also travel by invitation for workshops and symposiums in China.

A graduate of the Santa Monica College of Design, Art and Architecture and the San Francisco Art Institute, Tara has been an artist in residence at Anderson Ranch Center for the Arts, Penland School of Crafts, the Santa Fe Art Institute and received a fellowship to be in residence at the Vermont Studio Center.
To grapple with the sixth mass extinction and climate breakdown, she completed a Permaculture Design Course in 2018, Fritjof Capra’s Systems Thinking course in 2019 and became part of the Earth Regenerators Study Group in 2020

Tara Daly is a Californian sculptor working in ceramics who makes paintings and textiles in material driven processes that explore power, collapse and connection. She has exhibited at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Richmond Arts Center, Contemporary Craft Center among other non-profit art centers and galleries nationally.


A graduate of the Santa Monica College of Design, Art and Architecture and the San Francisco Art Institute, Tara has been an artist in residence at Anderson Ranch Center for the Arts, Penland School of Crafts, the Santa Fe Art Institute and received a fellowship to be in residence at the Vermont Studio Center.
To grapple with the sixth mass extinction and climate breakdown, she completed a Permaculture Design Course in 2018, Fritjof Capra’s Systems Thinking course in 2019 and became part of the Earth Regenerators Study Group in 2020

Tara Daly is a Californian sculptor working in ceramics who makes paintings and textiles in material driven processes that explore power, collapse and connection. She has exhibited at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Richmond Arts Center, Contemporary Craft Center among other non-profit art centers and galleries nationally.

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