Join Handbuilding’s visiting artists, Natalia Arbelaez, for a class lecture and demo on her work!
September 24 @ 9:00am via zoom
Email Linda Lopez for zoom link! lnlopez@uark.edu
Natalia Arbelaez is a Colombian American artist, born and raised in Miami, Florida to immigrant parents. She received her B.F.A. from Florida International University and her M.F.A. from The Ohio State University, where she received an Enrichment Fellowship. She completed a yearlong residency at the Clay Art Center; Port Chester, New York as a Barbara Rittenberg Fellow and was awarded the 2016 Inaugural Artaxis Fellowship that funded a residency to the Watershed in Newcastle, Maine. Her work has been exhibited nationally, in museums, galleries, and included in various collections, such as the Everson Museum and The Frederik Meijer Gardens. She has been recognized by the National Council on Education for Ceramic Arts as a 2018 Emerging Artist in the field. Natalia was a 2018-19 resident artist at Harvard University where she researched pre-Columbian art and histories. She is currently an artist in residence at the Museum of Art and Design in New York City where she continues her research in the work of historical and influential women ceramicists of color.