Anne Pärtna presents an overview of the last 17 years of her studio practice as small vignettes, in the exhibit “Fragments”. Small scale installations or fragments of larger installations that combine porcelain and textile and a collection of her functional pottery are bringing together two different worlds that complement each other.

Anne Pärtna is a graduate of ECU (2007) and holds an MFA degree with concentration in Ceramics. She received her BFA degree from the Estonian Academy of Art  (2000), in her native Estonia where her family still resides on a farm on the Gulf of Finland.  Anne found her love for clay already in kindergarten, where the smell of fresh clay in art class pulled her in. Her first experience with Kersti Laanmaa’s wood burning pottery kiln was life changing. The call of clay and fire has brought her to Seagrove, NC, the “American Pottery Capital”, where Anne and her husband Adam run a small family business, Blue Hen Pottery Inc. While Anne’s studio practice is mostly focused on functional tableware, she also makes sculptural forms and mixed media installations. Amongst the clay, fire, chickens and bees, Anne and Adam have raised two wonderful, creative young people.

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