North Carolina ARTIST BIOGRAPHYNikki Blair is currently an Associate Professor in Ceramics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Nikki Blair received her MFA from Ohio University and her BFA from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. She has exhibited in both museums and galleries across the country including Red Lodge Clay Center in Red Lodge, MT, Eutectic Gallery, Portland, OR, Cross Mackenzie Gallery in Washington, D.C., The Kendall Gallery in Grand Rapids, MI, The Harbor Gallery in Boston, MA, The North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC, Baltimore Clay Works in Baltimore, MD, and Spaces in Cleveland, OH. She has also been an artist-in-residence at the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, ME, the Guldagergarrd International Ceramic Research Center in Denmark, Galeria Estudio in Barcelona Spain, The Bardo Museum in Tunis, Tunisia, and The International Ceramics Studio in Kecskemet, Hungary.