About the work
I make handmade stoneware pottery from my home studio in Livingston Manor, NY. The textures, patterns, and palette of my work are inspired by the wild, lush landscape of the Catskills and informed by the rich histories of ceramics traditions in Japan, Europe, and the US.
For me, working in clay is the perfect marriage of design, intuitive making, and science. My studio is a space where I can tinker, test, and refine.
When we make something, we put ourselves into it—our care, our vision, our touch. I love the connection and exchange that takes place when an object moves from one hand to another.
About the maker
Jenny Gill is a ceramic artist and arts communications professional. Born in California and raised in rural Tennessee, she studied art history and studio art, with a focus on ceramics and sculpture, as an undergraduate at Vanderbilt University, where she was awarded the Hamblet Award for studio art. After graduating, she traveled to Japan to attend the summer-long International Workshop for Ceramic Art in Tokoname (IWCAT). Jenny continued her ceramics education at the Appalachian Center for Craft (Smithville, TN) and Long Island University (Brooklyn, NY), where she worked as a studio tech for many years.
In her creative practice, Jenny draws on experience as a letterpress designer and printer at the historic Hatch Show Print in Nashville and as a studio assistant for artists in Nashville and New York. Her work is also informed by in-depth study of ceramics history and contemporary ceramic art at Bard Graduate Center, where she earned a Master’s Degree.
Jenny balances her studio practice with communications work in service of artists and arts organizations. She is currently Director of Communications at the Joan Mitchell Foundation and has served in staff and consulting roles for Creative Capital, the American Craft Council, and Sewanee: the University of the South, among others. She and her family live in Livingston Manor, NY, in the Western Catskills. Jenny teaches community wheel-throwing classes at Catskill Art Space, where she also serves on the Board of Directors.
