Artist, Artisan
Thea M. Zwier is a creator of many things; object of use, objects of art, but all objects of depth and beauty, exhibiting her extraordinary craft. Thea’s artistic work deals with themes of healing, transmutation, death and loss, using landscape, nature and body imagery. She is an artist/artisan, ceramicist, teacher, and aspiring blade smith, as well as a poet, tarot reader, and yoga instructor.
Cracked Cloud Studios
tmz.crackedcloudstudios@gmail.com
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Cracked Cloud Studios is a dream and a theoretical space to encompass the varriety of Thea’s work and aspirations. As one who has, like many of her peers, struggled with defining her work within the spectrum between art and craft, and has been unsatisfied with the limiting boundaries of both, Thea has created Cracked Cloud Studios as a title under which her work in all of it’s many forms can flourish. Cracked Cloud Studios also represents the dream of an expanded future practice and the physical space to hold it. It is a future dream of Thea’s to create a physical space in which she can help foster the experimentation and learning of others between the spaces of art and craft. In the meantimes Cracked Cloud Studios is the seed of that dream, the encouragement to pursue it, and the spacious nest of Thea’s own self exploration in her craft.
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Education - BFA Sculpture and Integrated Practices. Minors in Museum and Gallery Practices, and Art History. Graduated 2020
Professional - Studio Tech at Greenwich House Pottery. Jan 2021 - May 2021
-TA for Ceramics, Island Workshop Day, Haystack Mountain School of Craft. May 2022
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Residencies - Craft Apprentice for Ceramics at Berea College. Oct. 2021 - March 2022
Shows - A Bowl Lotta Love, group show at The Mason Gallery. Cincinnati, OH. April 15th - May 15th 2022
-In Practice: Works by Berea College Student Craft Staff. Group show at The Parachute Factory . Lexington, KY. July 1st - July 30th
