Hannah Niswonger

1972 Born

EDUCATION

1995 BA Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut

1998 MFA New York State School of Ceramics, Alfred University, Alfred, New York

PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE

—Studio potter

—Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

—Massachusetts College of Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

—Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

—Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia

BIOGRAPHY 

Hannah Niswonger hand builds functional pots using white stoneware. She uses a Chinese calligraphy brush to create drawings on bone dry pots with under-glaze stains that act like an ink wash or watercolors on the absorbent surface of the clay.  

Niswonger formulates her own glazes and stains. She then scratches and carves into the drawings, adding and removing details. Wax resist is used to create motifs that are reminiscent of printed patterns.