WNC Virginia A. Groot Material Exploration Residency
2025
Cristina Córdova is a contemporary artist and instructor from Puerto Rico. She completed her BA at the University of Puerto Rico and earned her MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.
Her work is part of permanent collections at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Everson Museum, the Mint Museum of Craft + Design, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico, the Asheville Art Museum, and the Mobile Art Museum, among others. Córdova has received several honors and awards, such as the 2024 Maxwell | Hanrahan Craft Award, the 2023 Herbert Adams Memorial Medal from the National Sculpture Society, a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship, a Virginia A. Groot Foundation Recognition Grant, and a United States Artist Fellowship.
In 2021, Córdova published Mastering Sculpture: The Figure in Clay (Quarry Books). Her work has been widely featured in major ceramics and arts media, including the cover of Ceramics Monthly and PBS’s Craft in America. She has taught and given demonstrations at institutions such as Harvard University, the University of California, Penland School of Craft, and the Australian National University.
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