Donna Polseno is a contemporary American visual artist known for pottery, ceramics, and sculpture.

Background

Donna Polseno earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts (1972) at the Kansas City Art Institute and her Master of Arts in Teaching (1974) at the

Rhode Island School of Design The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD , pronounced "Riz-D") is a private art and design school in Providence, Rhode Island. The school was founded as a coeducational institution in 1877 by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf, who sought to increase the ...

. She lives and works in

Floyd, Virginia Floyd is a town in Floyd County, Virginia, United States. The population was 425 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Floyd County. The Town of Floyd was originally named Jacksonville as the surrounding county was formed during the tenur ...

and teaches ceramics at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. Polseno is a founding member of the 16 Hands Studio Tour and director of the Women Working with Clay Symposium.

Selected solo and group exhibitions

* 16 Hands Studio Tour, held annually. Floyd, VA *''Embodied Form'', 2018. List Gallery at

Swarthmore College Swarthmore College ( , ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the earliest coeduca ...

, Swarthmore, PA *''Reverences'', 2009. Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA *''For the Love of Flowers'', 2005.

Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft KMAC Museum is an American art museum that "connects people to Art and Creative Practice". The museum is a 501c3 organization located in the West Main District of downtown Louisville, Kentucky History The museum was founded in 1981 as the Ken ...

, Louisville, KY *''Biennial of Piedmont Crafts'', 1978.

Mint Museum of Art The Mint Museum, also referred to as The Mint Museums, is a cultural institution comprising two museums, located in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Mint Museum Randolph and Mint Museum Uptown, together these two locations have hundreds of collection ...

, Charlotte, NC

Collections and publications

American Museum of Ceramic Art The American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA) is an art museum for ceramic art, located in Pomona, California. Founded in 2003 as a nonprofit organization, the museum exhibits historic and contemporary ceramic artwork from both its permanent collect ...

, Pomona, CA *

Ceramics Monthly The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) is a non-profit professional organization for the ceramics community, with a focus on scientific research, emerging technologies, and applications in which ceramic materials are an element. It is located in W ...

, March 1990, November 2015

References

21st-century American sculptors 20th-century American sculptors Kansas City Art Institute alumni Rhode Island School of Design alumni Hollins University faculty American potters American ceramists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) People from Floyd, Virginia 21st-century American women sculptors 20th-century American women sculptors American women ceramists American women potters American women academics Sculptors from Virginia Ceramists from Virginia {{US-sculptor-stub