Sara Swink
Sara is a ceramics artist.
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Sara's love of clay began at the age of eight with the encouragement of her next-door neighbor, who was a potter. In high school, she learned to throw on the potter’s wheel, hand build, and mix glazes; she bought her own kickwheel with money earned cleaning houses. She left ceramics behind until she took a class at Palo Alto Art Center nearly twenty years later. This was followed by a workshop in 1998 with Coeleen Kiebert, whose methodology fuses artmaking with the psychology of the creative individual, and whose approach she teaches. At the same time, she pursued an academic art education in art history, ceramics, drawing, printmaking, and foundry work at Foothill College, San Jose State University, and San Francisco State University through the first year of graduate study in ceramics. She taught at a number of California venues and in her own studio, while participating in regional shows. In 2006, she moved to the Portland area, where she established Clay Circle Studio and continues to show nationally and teach locally. In 2013, she was featured on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s “Oregon Art Beat”.
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