Dougherty Arts Center 2024 Visual Artists In Residence at their exhibit reception for Play Fight: A Search for Connection
Dougherty Arts Center 2024 Visual Artists In Residence Chance Ramirez discuses ceramics, art therapy, and hand building with clay on episode 16 of In The Parks.
Visual Artist Residency
Applications for the Fall 2024 Visual Artist Residency Program closed on September 15, 2024.
The Visual Artist Residency Program provides visual artists with the space, facilities, time and professional interaction that will foster and further develop their ideas, skills, abilities, and focus as practicing artists. This is a work exchange program where resident artists are invited to create outreach opportunities within our community such as teaching workshops, giving public presentations, critiques and monitoring our independent study program and open studio hours.
Residencies are six months, renewable up to a total of two years, and available for emerging and established artists in ceramics.
Residency is open to visual artists who live in the Austin area; within Bastrop, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Hays, Travis, or Williamson counties.
For questions about the Visual Artist Residency, email DACInfo@austintexas.gov
Current Dougherty Visual Artist Residents
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Anna Gadzhikurbanova, Emerging Ceramic Artist Born and raised in Moscow, Russia Anna received a clinical psychology education from Moscow State University. After working as a psychological counsellor for several years she found herself drawn to artistic self-expression. This journey began with dance and movement practices, evolved into photography, and eventually led to ceramic art. In 2018 she relocated to Japan where she was inspired by Japanese culture, aesthetics and ceramic art. Despite language barriers, she immersed herself in pottery, learning from various Japanese ceramic artists at different art schools. At the same time, she studied composition, color theory, and ceramic techniques through Russian online art courses, making connections with Russian artists both online and during visits to her home country. Gadzhikurbanova began creating and selling her ceramic works, fulfilling commissions, and participating in shows. In early 2022 she gave birth to her son, and later that year her family moved to Austin, TX. In 2023, she set up a small ceramic studio in her garage, allowing her to resume her creative journey and to continue exploring the world of ceramics. |
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Jamie Lerman, Established Ceramic Artist Jamie Lerman is an artist, ceramicist, and facilitator based in Austin, Texas. She earned her BFA at Pratt Institute for Fine Arts in 2020 studying printmaking and ceramics. Her work is a romancing of adaptation, transformation, and sentimentalism that leads to sculpture, pottery, mosaics, and dinner parties. She also operates Double Cradle, a pottery project designed to celebrate the sentimental; a creation of objects that we can't help but hold with both hands. All pieces are hand-built and home-made-glazed with love and attention by the artist. You can find more of her work on IG @double_cradle |
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Chance Ramirez, Established Ceramic Artist Chance Ramirez (they/them/she/her) has a background in studio art, craft, and art therapy. Inspired by a career in mental health, they make hand built works about pleasure, pain, and joyful resistance for people who like getting lost in the details. Using an abundance of textures and colors, Chance invites the audience to reach outward and inward with curiosity. Their work attempts to answer the question, “What does it mean to be human?” |
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Gargi Sharma, Emerging Ceramic Artist Gargi Sharma, currently based in Austin, is an architect-turned-ceramic and glass designer passionate about showcasing the creative potential of clay. Her design journey led her to discover a love for education, where she spent a few years teaching and developing curricula focused on ceramics, design, creativity, and the arts. Driven to fully commit to her artistic path, she began honing her skills and exploring her unique voice in ceramics while teaching part-time at various institutions. Drawing inspiration from her upbringing in the culturally vibrant Indian city of Haridwar, her work blends traditional influences with contemporary perspectives, exploring layers of meaning in everyday objects. |
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Diane Sung, Established Ceramic Artist Diane Sung is a ceramic artist currently based in Austin, TX. She earned her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, MO. Her work is driven by the complexities of the human experience with language and she seeks to explore these narratives in her sculptures. Though her practice is primarily based in ceramic sculpture, she also works through drawing, printmaking, and claymation. Having grown up in a bilingual environment, learning about other languages is her greatest passion outside of the visual arts. |