Mallory Wetherell ( she/her )

Ranging in form from sculptural objects to ornate vessels, my work explores the intersection of drawing and ceramics. Each porcelain piece serves as a canvas for graphic hand painted imagery that depict autobiographical narratives - presenting as small billboards for my personal politics, beliefs, and internalized thoughts. “Mallory Wetherell’s delicately rendered porcelain sculptures and vessels respond to the long art historical tradition of treating women as muses or objects to be consumed. Calling attention to the politicization of the female body, Wetherell explores topics including reproductive justice, fertility, and privacy. She often deploys self-deprecating humor and hidden symbolism to reclaim the female gaze and empower women. Mallory Wetherell lives and works in Kearney, Nebraska and is a professor of art and head of ceramics at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.” – The Joslyn Art Museum

Mallory received her BFA in Ceramics from the University of South Carolina and her MFA in Ceramics from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth.  She’s been an artist in residence at the Archie Bray Foundation, Tyler School of Art, and Ken Price’s studio. She has collaborated with artists such as Richard Notkin (of WA State) and Rebecca Hutchinson (of MA) and her work was featured in Sunshine Cobb’s 2022 book The Beginner’s Guide to Hand Building.  Mallory’s functional work is carried in numerous galleries such as the Bray North Gallery in Helena, MT, the Companion Art Gallery in Humbolt, TN, the gallery of Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, and The Clay Studio of Philadelphia.  Most recently, her work was featured in Made in the Plains at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, NE, the 49^th Annual Old Church Pottery Show in Demarest, NJ, Claybash at the Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, NJ, and will be shown in the upcoming Porcelain Glow exhibition at Red Lodge Clay Center in MT.