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Hi,
My name is Kelly E. Potter I'm a multi-medium visual artist working from Easthampton, MA My ceramic business KEP. Ceramics began with my love of woodfiring. Working in the production pottery world introduced me to ceramic processes and the joy of working on a team of ceramicists. My ceramic critters channel themes of awkwardness, dissociation, and bliss - they are misunderstood, sometimes stubborn, but almost always undeniably cute. Thank you for visiting! Kelly |
Kelly E Potter is a visual artist working from Easthampton, MA. She received her Undergraduate BFA degree in Studio Arts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she was awarded the Chancellor’s Talent Award, George M. Wardlaw Scholarship, and Second Place Juried Junior Senior Show Award.
Through painting, sculpture, and video mediums, Potter investigates a dynamic between the tamed and the untamed. Her visual art emerges from preliminary studies of animal activity within semi-natural locations in the Berkshires, MA and the Pioneer Valley. Using motion activated cameras, she studies the relationships between humans and nature, particularly those of Northeastern plant and animal species forced to adapt and coexist due to urban sprawl. These themes tie into her strong connection to the forests where she grew up, her interest in local plant and animal species, and her need to relate to and represent them in her visual work. |
Solo Exhibitions
Friend or Foe , Morris Studio Gallery, Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA, 2023 Bittersweet, Hampden Gallery, Amherst, MA, May 5th - June 1st, 2018 Girl of the Woods , Fuel Coffee Shop, Great Barrington, MA, 2015 Group Exhibitions and Features Jane Sinauer Curated Collection , Snow Farm, Williamsburg, MA, 2025 Annual Holyoke Arts League Exhibition , Wistariahurst, Holyoke, MA, 2025 Art in the Berkshires Juried Art Show , Eastover Contemporary Art Space, Lenox, MA, 2025 Cottage Street Studios Past and Present , Elusie Gallery, Easthampton, MA, 2025 The 13th Biennial State of Clay Ceramics Exhibition , Lexington Arts and Crafts Society, Lexington, MA, 2025 Artist of the Month , Pinch, Northampton, MA, 2024 Kiln Access , The Hatch, Brooklyn, NY, 2023 Berkshire Artist Residency Pop Up Show , Berkshire Art Center Gallery, Pittsfield, MA, 2023 ClayWay Studio Tour Artist, Cornwall Bridge Studios, Cornwall Bridge CT, 2022 Hilltown 6 Pottery Tour, Hiroshi Nakayama’s Studio, Worthington, MA, 2021 ClayWay Studio Tour Artist, Cornwall Bridge Studios, Cornwall Bridge CT, 2021 30 under 30 Festival, The Foundry, West Stockbridge, MA, 2020 L’Atelier Berkshires Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, 2019 Selected Junior Senior Show, Herter Gallery, Amherst, MA, 2018 Selected Art in SAB, Lee Edwards Gallery, Amherst, MA, 2018 7th Annual Small Works Show, Hope and Feathers Gallery, Amherst, MA, 2017 7:7 Pop Up Show, Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA, 2017 30 Under 30, No. Six Depot Gallery, West Stockbridge, MA, 2017 40th Annual Selected Student Exhibition, Chauncey Sillman Gallery, Old Lyme, CT, 2016 Girl of the Woods, West Stockbridge Town Hall, West Stockbridge, MA, 2015 Selected Student Holiday Exhibition, Chauncey Sillman Gallery, Old Lyme, CT, 2015 
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