Vanessa Grubbs
Artist’s Bio
Vanessa Grubbs hails from Columbia, South Carolina. In 1997 she received a Bachelor of Art degree from Winthrop University and an MFA in Ceramics from Georgia State University. Grubbs has been an instructor of ceramics at Georgia State University, at Roswell Park Departments Clay West (both in Atlanta) and at Gooddirt in Athens, Georgia. She has been a demonstrating artist for the Midlands Clay Art Society in Columbia, South Carolina in August 2006, at Francis Marion University in September 2002 in Florence, South Carolina, and at Gaston College in May of 2003 in Gastonia, North Carolina. Presently Vanessa is the Gallery Director for Brenau University. Grubbs’ art has been featured in many exhibitions, and her work is sold both wholesale and through retail and craft events. She has been featured in Ceramics Monthly as one of the 2005 Emerging Artists, and in the Lark Book, Image Transfer in Clay, published in 2006.
Artist’s Statement
Vanessa Grubbs is a fourth-generation artist. All her life, Vanessa has been creating; from mud-pies in the back yard to dresses for her dogs to the pottery you see today. Each of Vanessa’s creations is food safe and the glazes she uses are lead-free.Each piece of pottery was thrown and decorated in the sgrafitto technique with mason stains and glaze. Vanessa lives in Gainesville, GA with her wiener dogs Max and Daisy.