Joan Zagrobelny
Zagrobelny is a primarily self-taught ceramic artist, who has had the good fortune to study with some renowned masters of the craft. Formerly a speech pathologist committed to discovering innovative ways to teach, she has turned her creative energies to clay. Her ceramic sculptures are hand-built, abstract forms with an extremely tactile biomorphic quality. She describes her process as meditative, with the repetitive squeezing of each coil creating a deep connection with the emerging form. The variegated texture of her sculptures, created by her fingers as she coils and pinches the forms, adds surface depth, as well as an opportunity to use multiple glaze layers, rubbed off in part to reveal underlying color.
Joan has participated in residencies at Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts and c.r.e.t.a Rome in Italy. Her work is frequently included in juried shows nationally and has been exhibited in galleries in Boston, Los Angeles, New York and Rome. She teaches hand building classes at several art centers on Cape Cod and resides and maintains a private studio in Sandwich, MA.
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