Donte Moore is a ceramic artist from Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. In 2015, he earned the William D. Davis Drawing Award. In 2016, he was nominated to receive the APSCUF/SU award by the faculty of Art & Design at Shippensburg University, where he achieved his Bachelor of Arts in Art. During the completion of his MFA from the University of Delaware, Donte held positions as both studio technician and adjunct professor. Donte continues to manage the university ceramic studio while also instructing wheel throwing classes at the Delaware Art Museum. He has exhibited work at The Pennsylvania State University, Baltimore Clayworks, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, The Delaware Contemporary, and internationally at Heit Berlin, Germany. Donte focuses his work around humans and machines. His futuristic work thoughtfully questions the loss of humanity, heart, and soul from the objects that exist around us. His creative process recognizes a concept of removing the hand from the work, exempting the incidental mark.
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