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Colleen Williams' exploration of
the ceramic medium began while apprenticing for an architect in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida, after completing her education at the University
of the Arts in Philadelphia for a BS degree in Architectural Studies. |
In living above the studio of a friend's mother,
a potter, Colleen
found that the translation of designs she'd been making onto floor
plans were easily achieved in clay by using graphic symbols made into
clay stamps, which soon developed into overall textural patterning.
Colleen exhibited the line of porcelain jewelry collectively know as
"Local Texture" in the American Craft Council and the Rosen Group's
wholesale events acquiring over 70 galleries, museum shops, and
boutiques across the USA and Japan
before representing herself at many of the nation's most prestigious
juried art festivals.
Today,
she is recognized for her unique surface designs on porcelain in her
art jewelry and sculptural work, maintaining a studio at the Beaver
Mill in North Adams, Massachusetts.
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