White ceramic figures, burnished terra sigillata, stripes & polka dots
Nancy Kubale is a full time ceramic and mixed media artist living 50 miles southeast of Asheville in the foothills of Rutherford County, NC. She earned her BFA in Mixed Media from Minneapolis College of Art and Design. In addition she studied clothing construction at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NY, ceramics at Penland School of Crafts and sculpture at Florence Academy of Art. She lives with her husband, who manages performing arts centers, and her studio mate Joe, a big black lab.
Her current work attempts to find real truth, asking questions that make others ask questions about our shared existence. Kubale exhibits regularly at high-end art fairs throughout the Eastern and Mid-Western U. S., including SPECTRUM during Miami Art Week, the Philadelphia Museum Fine Craft Show, the Milwaukee Art Museum Lakefront, the Mint Museum Potters Market Invitational, American Craft Exposition, CraftNEWYORK, the Washington & West Palm Beach Fine Craft Shows, as well as the Baltimore and Atlanta American Craft Council shows. She participates in numerous group and solo gallery exhibitions throughout the U. S. and is represented by Blue Spiral 1 in Asheville and Bennett Galltery in Knoxville. She is a 2008 and 2011 North Carolina Regional Artist Grant recipient.