michelle tobia
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Michelle is currently an Assistant Professor and head of the ceramics program at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. She received a MFA in Ceramics (2004) from Ohio University, a BFA in Ceramics (2001) from The Kansas City Art Institute and a BS in Human Development and Family Studies and Early Childhood Education (1996) from the Pennsylvania State University. In Spring 2006, she was a Visiting Lecturer in Ceramics at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Michelle has been a resident artist at the Clay Art Center in New York and has spent June 2005 & 2008 at the International Ceramics Studio in Kecskemet, Hungary. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally in China, England and Spain.
Her work and research address and challenge how we define the concept of containment by accessing the ideas of place, beauty and perceptions of identity thru slip cast porcelain objects and mixed media installations.