Patsy Cox was born in 1973 in Ubon Ratchatani, Thailand. She grew up in Dracut, Massachusetts, finished high school in Kearney, Missouri and has lived in Juneau, Alaska, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Newark, Delaware before settling in Los Angeles, California. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design and Ceramics from Missouri State University and her Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics and Sculpture from the University of Delaware.
She is Professor of Visual Art and Head of Ceramics at California State University, Northridge where she has served as Associate Chair and Graduate Coordinator for Visual Arts. She has been a Getty Scholar for the Linking Service Learning and the Visual Arts program and has coordinated courses for the CSU Summer Arts program. She has served as President for the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) 2010-2016 and is a Fellow of the Council. She has participated in the Annenberg Alchemy and Alchemy+ programs for non-profit excellence. Cox has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Selected recent exhibitions include; Post Painted Pottery Culture in Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China, Mouthpiece at the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, California, Melting Point: Movements in Contemporary Clay at Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles, California and From Funk to Punk: Left Coast Ceramics curated by Peter Held at the Everson Museum of Art. Her work has been featured in print and online, most recently in; VoyageLA, the Los Angeles Times, and ArtCritical. She has received recognition for her work in the form of awards and grants most recently from the Durfee Foundation and the Investing in Artists grant from the California Center for Cultural Innovation. She has lectured extensively, most recently at; Tainan National University in Taiwan, for the STEAM Visiting Lecture Series at Broward College in Florida and as part of a two month artist residency with the Dunhuang Creative Center and Lanzhou City University in Lanzhou, China. She lives and maintains a productive studio near downtown Los Angeles.
The Edaren Foundation Presents: Gumbo Clayfest 2023 returns to TASI when ceramists descend on Beaumont July 6, 7, and 8!
No admission fee required, any donations accepted.
For the workshop: Participants will learn how to create small plaster mother-molds using Alginate. Topics covered will include creating and using stamps/sprigs and making colored clay bodies.
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