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Chrissie Callejas

Biography to Display:

EDUCATION

1974 Master of Education

PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE

Studio Potter

BIOGRAPHY

Chrissie Callejas was known for functional stoneware pottery for twenty years. Later in her career, Callejas began working on larger-than-life hand built abstracted sculptural forms of vegetables or fruits, formed using clay and paper clay. The surface techniques are carving, embossing, and application of eight or more layers of slips and glazes.

Callejas also paints in oil.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Public Collections to Display:

American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bibliography to Display:

Triplett, Kathy. Handbuilt Ceramics: Pinching, Coiling, Extruding, Molding, Slip Casting, Slab Work. United States: Lark Books, 2000.

https://piedmontcraftsmen.org/craft-artists/find-an-exhibiting-artist/chrissie-callejas/ last accessed: 09—4-2021 .

https://carolinadesignercraftsmen.com/portfolio-item/christina-callejas-clay/ accessed 09-04-2021;