Shafer, MN ARTIST STATEMENTI make hand-built earthenware vessels that draw on the quiet, minimal forms of basic function, such as basins, bread troughs and baskets. Using slab, coil and mold techniques I make a simple form, which I then smooth and scrape to articulate handles, edges, corners and rims. Surfaces emphasize the subtleties of material, process and firing as the primary decorative elements – dragged grog, finger marks, the layering of slips and terra sigillata, and the rough whites and blacks that come from reduction firing.Smaller pieces like plates, cups, mugs and bowls are wheel-thrown, then likewise scraped and pared down in form and reduction fired. Most recently I have been pulling from my long love of textiles to add pattern and color to this smaller work. BIOGRAPHYMaggie Jaszczak is a potter and mixed media artist originally from Ontario, Canada. After completing her undergraduate studies at Kootenay School of the Arts in Nelson, BC and Alberta College of Art + Design in Calgary, AB she received her MFA in Ceramics from the University of Minnesota in 2013. She has participated in ceramic residency programs at the New Taipei Ceramics Museum in New Taipei City, Taiwan, the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT, Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, CO, and Medalta Potteries in Medicine Hat, AB. She currently lives in Minnesota with her husband, the ceramicist Tom Jaszczak.