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Janina Myronowa

Janina Myronowa received her M.F.A. at the Lviv National Academy of Fine Arts, Lviv, Ukraine in 2012, an M.F.A. at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Wroclaw, Poland in 2013, and her Ph.D. at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Wroclaw, Poland in 2019. Continually developing her work and practice, she has attended numerous residencies including opportunities at New Taipei Yingge Ceramics Museum, New Taipei, Taiwan; Clayarch Gimhae Museum, Gimhae-si, South Korea; Lefebvre and Fils, Paris, France; International Ceramic Research Center Guldagergaard, Skalskor, Denmark; International Ceramics Studio, Kecskemet, Hungary; Majolika Karlsruhe, Germany.

Janina Myronowa came to United States in 2022 as am McKnight Fellow Resident Artist at Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, MN and continued as a Long-Term Resident Artist at Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT, from September 2024 she started Residency at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, PA.

Janina Myronowa during her stay in United States was a Visiting Artist at University of Kansas, Ball State University, Utah State University and gave an Artist Talk at Ceramics Program – Office for the Arts at Harvard. Her works are in the collection of Crocker Art Museum, CA; Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan; National Museum in Wroclaw, Poland; National Museum in Krakow, Poland; Museu Ceràmica l ́Alcora, Spain; Riga Porcelain Museum, Latvia; Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT. 

Malcolm Mobutu Smith

Malcolm Mobutu Smith is associate professor of ceramic art and director of graduate studies in the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design at Indiana University-Bloomington. Smith’s undergraduate studies include both the Kansas City Art Institute and Penn State University where he earned his B.F.A. in Ceramics. He received his M.F.A. in Ceramics from the New York College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1996. He is a member of National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts. He is on the boards of Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts and The Marks Project.  Smith’s professional activities include workshops, lecturers and residencies including visits to Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Arrowmont School of Crafts, Peter’s Valley School of Craft and Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts. His works are represented by the Wexler Gallery in Philadelphia and are in numerous private and public collections.  Institutions with his work include at the Indiana State Museum, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, the Palmer Museum of Art, the Eskenazi Museum and Yingge Ceramics Museum of New Taipei City, Taiwan.

Smith’s works, guided by improvisations, merge volumetric form with graphic flatness. His studio interests include ceramics and drawing. His clay work, both wheel-thrown and hand-built forms are used to play with the intersections of graffiti art, the graphic conventions of comic books and playful organic abstraction. These vectors of inspiration are driven by the impulses of Hip Hop and Jazz. These energetic motivations are captured in vessel archetypes of tea bowls, bottles, and vases. In addition to vessel works Smith’s drawings take cues from the figure, landscape and mechanical design arriving at images chiseled out of imagined spaces oscillating between line and surface, material, and image.

Peter Christian Johnson

Peter Christian Johnson is currently Associate Professor of Art at ����ֱ�� State University after serving more than decade as the head of the ceramics department at Eastern Oregon University. He has received the Oregon Arts Commission’s Individual Artist Fellowship, is a three-time winner of the Ohio Arts Council’s Individual Artist Excellence Award, and was a Matsutani Fellow at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts.  He was awarded first place in the 2018 Zanesville Prize for Contemporary Ceramics and was recently part of the 61^st Faenza Prize in Italy. He exhibited in the 2017 and 2019 Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale along with exhibitions in Canada, Australia, China, Italy, Korea, and throughout the United States. His work has been published in numerous publications including the recent Ceramique; 90 Artistes Contemporains by Pyramid Publishing and in the book Contemporary Ceramic Art, published by Thames and Hudson in 2020.