Anne D. Elliot Handbuilt Pottery
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About the artist:
Anne D. Elliot has received several grants for her work, including a Kinnicutt Award grant from the Worcester Art Museum. Her work is in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. In 2007 she did a residency at AIR Vallauris in France. Anne studied sculpture at the John Cass School of Art in London, England, and pottery at the Worcester Center for Crafts. She has a BA from Simmons College in Boston. She works from her studio at Handbuilt Pottery in Massachusetts.
"These pots are built from slabs of clay. The process of folding, cutting, and joining sections of clay connects the work to other disciplines such as fiber work and architecture. A simple clay pot can be seen from many angles: material, aesthetic, historical. My work is meant to be useful and interesting; in this respect, the work sits squarely within the tradition of functional ceramics. The use of cut and overlapping sections, places the work along the moving edge of modern ceramic trends."
Recent awards:
2006 Merit Award, CraftBoston, New England Society of Arts and Craft, Boston
2004 Award of Achievement, American Craft Association, Sarasota, Florida show
2004 Best in Show, Handle It. Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, Massachusetts
2003 Frances A. Kinnicutt Travel Award, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts
2001 Best in Category, Functional Ceramics, Boston Mills Artfest, Boston Mills, Ohio
2001 Zimmerman, Pfannebecker and Nuffort Award, Strictly Functional Pottery National
2001 Minneapolis Institute of Art Purchase Award, Focus on Function, University of Minnesota
2000 Honorable Mention, American Crafts Council Show, Sarasota, Florida
2007 Drink It In, Worcester Center for Crafts, Kirkorian Gallery, Worcester, MA
2006 100 Teapots, Atlanta Teapot Festival, Atlanta, GA
2006 An Extravagance of Salt and Pepper: containers, shakers, concepts, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
2005 Serendipity, Henderson Arts Center, Hendersonville, North Carolina
2005 Platitudes, Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA
2004 Form Follows Function, Lill Street Art Center, Chicago, Illinois Duets, Kentucky Museum of Arts and Design, Louisville,Kentucky
2004 Pottery Invitational Curated by Karen Karnes, Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, Massachusetts
2003 American Pottery Festival, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Functional Ceramics, Wayne Center for the Arts, Wooster, Ohio
Strictly Functional Pottery National, Market House Craft Center, East Petersburg, Pennsylvania
2002 Clay and Glass, Corning Community College, Corning, New York
American Pottery Festival, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis Minnesota
Intent: work from electric fired kilns, Worcester Center for Crafts, Massachusetts
Materials: Hard & Soft, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, Texas
Utilitarian Ceramic National, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, Louisiana
2001 Strictly Functional Pottery National,  Market House Craft Center,  East Petersburg, PA
Le Grand Buffet, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2000 Artists on their Own, Greenwich House Pottery, N.Y. 
Focus on Function, National Ceramics Biennial, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Made in 2000, Robert Lauren Gallery, Clayworks, Easthampton,MA
Regional Art Exhibition, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
Ceramics Monthly International Competition, Columbus, Ohio
Working With Function, Chester Springs Studio, Chester Springs, PA.
Ceramic 99, Guilford Handcraft Center, Connecticut
Education:
B.A. Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts
John Cass School of Fine Art, London, England
Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, Massachusetts
Selected Recent Exhibitions and Shows: