Nancy Monsebroten

medium: ceramics

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Lotus Vase 2008 Ceramics	Thousand Petal Vase 2009 Ceramics	Lotus Vase 2008 Ceramics
Twining Leaf Series (Detail) 2009 Ceramics	Twining Leaf Series 2009 Ceramics	Leaf Bowl 2009 Ceramics
Leaf Bowl 2008 Ceramics	Lotus Vase 2009 Ceramics	Thousand Petal Vase 2009 Ceramics

Contact information
w7661 County Road ZB
Onalaska, WI 54650
Email Address: wearthurns@aol.com
Web site: www.whiteearthstudio.etsy.com

Artist statement
White Earth, a series of porcelain vessels, is an homage to my childhood in the Dakotas, its visual images and memories. It is a deep respect, a bowing down to the earth where I have experienced it. Walking the freshly plowed fields as a child, I would find fossils, shells and arrowheads. I have renewed and extended my fascination with these shapes. I have discovered new connections between the prairie (once an inland sea) and the ocean. Like the prairie and the sea, my pieces display hues against large neutral backgrounds--a touch of pink or a glint of pearl--finding a prairie rose in a otherwise green meadow, or a single shell on a stretch of sand.

White Earth comes from some part of me that works unconsciously, a part that reaches down into my memories. White Earth comes from that private part of me, and I hope it will touch that part in others.

Biography
As an independent studio potter for the last thirty years, I have exhibited my work and received awards both nationally and internationally. Selected awards include, The Fletcher Brownbelt Pottery Award, Auckland New Zealand; Women in Design International Honors in Ceramics, San Francisco, most recently, a piece titled"Lotus Vase" was juried into the Lill Street International porcelain competition, Lill street Gallery, Chicago, Ill. I have had a feature article published in Ceramics Monthly Magazine, as well as publications in American Craft Magazine. Various collections include The Danish Institute, Copenhagen; American Standard Co; Department of Foreign Affairs, Seoul, South Korea; and Piper, Jaffrey and Hopwood.