ClayCrits is a collaborative effort between Chuck Purviance and Nicole Woodard.
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CHUCK PURVIANCE is currently the studio manager at the Des Moines Art Center in Des Moines, Iowa. He grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and has been working in the arts and education field as a potter, sculptor, instructor, and community arts organizer for the past 12 years. Purviance earned his BFA from Edinboro University in 2013 with minors in art history and printmaking, and MFA from Wichita State University in 2020. Between programs, he was an artist in residence at the Brockway Center for Arts and Technology (BCAT), where he began teaching and working with high school students. Later, Purviance became the studio coordinator and teaching artist for the next 3 years. He has a vast knowledge of surfaces decoration techniques, glaze chemistry, and cold surface finishes. Purviance has overseen over 20 community murals in clay and non-fired materials, such as paint, wood, and found objects.
His current research and body of work revolve around abstract sculptural forms that are inspired by his experience with and working through anxiety and depression that he has dealt with through his life.
http://www.chuckpurviance.com/ @chuckpurviance
NICOLE RENE WOODARD is an artist from southeastern Wisconsin. She is living in Lawrence, KS to pursue a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Kansas. In May 2017, she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in ceramics from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. From June 2017-2018, she was the artist-in-residence/intern at James May Gallery in Algoma, WI. In 2020, she completed short term residencies at Penland School of Crafts and the Hambidge Center. Nicole has been exhibiting nationally, in such places as the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts in San Angelo, Texas; The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, PA; the Mark Arts Center in Wichita, KS; and Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, IL.
Her current body of work explores the vulnerabilities of being.
http://nicolerenewoodard.com/ @nicolerenewoodard
Her current body of work explores the vulnerabilities of being.
http://nicolerenewoodard.com/ @nicolerenewoodard
