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2025
Melissa Weiss is a full-time artist working primarily in clay. She lives and works in Asheville, NC, and is originally from New York City.
She graduated from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) with a BFA in photography in 2000. Melissa took a clay class for the first time in 2004, set up a studio shortly after, and continues experimenting and exploring this inexhaustible material.
She has taught and exhibited ceramics across the United States. Melissa makes illustrative, functional ceramics from wild clay dug from her land in the Arkansas Ozarks, the traditional territories of the Caddo, Osage, and Quapaw tribes. Her work strives to illuminate the sweetness and fortitude of humanity.
She is inspired by all people fighting for liberation and a just world.
Location
Asheville, NC
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$15,000
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