Studio Potter, Vermont

Artist Statement
I make platters, jars, cups, bowls and vases all objects that developed centuries ago to serve a human need.  I was drawn to make pottery the same way that I want my viewers to be drawn to my pots- invited in by the familiarity of a known daily object and its potential for use to then discover its layers of reference. The plateau on a platter, the soft flesh on a vase, the hills and valleys on a jar, my hope is that the pots convey layers that can take the viewers to their own imaginary spaces.

Education:
                          
1998-2000 M.F.A. School of Art and Design at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY
1996-1998 M.F.A.  Candidate, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, S. Dartmouth, MA
1991-1995 B.F.A. School of Art and Design at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY, Cum Laude

Exhibitions 

2005
• ”Summer Invitational”, Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA
• ”16 Women:  16 Perspectives”, Red Star Studio, Kansas City, MO
• “31th Annual Invitational Pottery Show and Sale”, Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, NJ
•  American Pottery Festival, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
• “WHITE”, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
• NCECA 2005 Clay National, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
• “Ceramic Currents, UMass Dartmouth Faculty & Alumni Show”, Anne
   Arundel Community College Arnold, MD 
•  NCECA Exhibition, Taipei County YingKo Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
•  Pottery Invitational, Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA
• “Platters and Plates: A Blue Plate Special”, Chester Springs Studios, PA
2004                        
• “Made in Clay”, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
• “Functional Clay”, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT
• Utilitarian Clay IV Presenters Exhibition, Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN                 
• ”Cup”, University of Miami, Miami, FL
•  “Art to Use:  Functional Clay”, Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
•  “30th Annual Invitational Pottery Show and Sale”, Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, NJ
•  “Functional Ceramics”, The Wayne Center for the Arts, Wooster, OH
•  “Pleasures of the Table”, Ransburg Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
• “The Big Show”, 4 Star Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
•  Worcester Center for the Crafts Potters Invitational, Worcester, MA            
•  “Service: An Unconventional Approach” Chester Springs Clay Studio, PA
2003
•  “Craft Transformed”, University Art Gallery, New Bedford, MA
•  “Sensuous”, Red Star Studios, Kansas City, MO
•  “Aysha Peltz and Todd Wahlstrom Recent Ceramics”, MT Burton Gallery, Surf City, NJ
• “Worcester Center for the Crafts Pottery Show and Sale”, Worcester, MA
•  “Aysha Peltz Recent Ceramics”, Young and Constantin Gallery, Wilmington,VT
2002                           
•  “Annual Holiday Show”, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
• “Anagama”, Peck Gallery, Providence, RI
• “Yankee Clay”, Slater Mills Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT
•  “New Talent:/ New Work”, The Clay Studio
•  “Peltz/ Timock”, Derek Porter Studio, Kansas City, MO
2001                           
•  “For The Table”, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
•  Winterfest-2001, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
•  Convergences, Winthrope University, Rock Hill, SC
•  “Reunion:  Wayne Higby and Graduates of the Alfred University Ceramics Program”, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
• “25 Select 25”, Gallery 1021, Lill Street Art Center, Chicago, IL

Catalogs and Publications:

“Starting Out.”  Studio Potter Vol. 33, no. 1 (Dec. 2004)
“Utilitarian Clay IV.” Ceramics Monthly (Dec. 2004)
Functional Ceramics, Phyllis Blair Clark (2004)
“Up Front.” Ceramics Monthly, (Nov. 2003)             
The Art of Contemporary American Pottery, Kevin A. Hluch (2001)
Convergences- The Presence of the Past in Contemporary American Ceramics, Caroline Henderson (2001)