Archie Bray Foundation | 2016 Voulkos Visiting Artist Fellow

2017 Voulkos Visiting Artist Fellow
The Bray is pleased to award Kristen Morgin with the 2017 Voulkos Visiting Artist Fellowship. Morgin will spend a few weeks in May at the Bray working in the Voulkos Visiting Artist Studio. Kristen Morgin was born in Brunswick, Georgia. Morgin earned her MFA degree with an emphasis in ceramics from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1997 and a BA from California State University, Hayward. Morgin currently resides in Gardena, California, and has held job positions as a gallery docent, a children’s playhouse set painter, a secretary in an auto glass shop and as an associate professor of art. She currently earns her living as an artist.
A Message to My 20 Year Old Me: Sleep Tight, 2015, unfired clay, paint, ink, graphite, string 12" x 8" x 3.5"	The Brave Little Snowman, 2013 unfired clay, paint, ink, marker, graphite 13.5 " x 9.5" x 11"

The Voulkos Visiting Artist Fellowship was created in memory of the renowned ceramic artist, Peter Voulkos. His family and friends established the Fellowship at the Archie Bray Foundation to invite a distinguished artist to work at the Bray each year. Peter Voulkos taught by example, working alongside other artists in the studio, fostering artistic exchange and dialogue, and nurturing mutual respect. In the same spirit, the Voulkos Fellow is invited to work in an environment that encourages interaction among the artists and the Bray community.