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Current Residents

Abril Barajas
Ceramic Artist

Abril Barajas is a Mexican American artist from Los Angeles, California who currently resides in the Hudson Valley area of New York state. She graduated from The Pratt Institute with a BFA in printmaking. Her work now ranges across craft mediums mainly focused on ceramic work but also encompassing drawing, fiber work, and the general sculpture melange. Her work is deeply informed by her culture and she believes strongly in magic making and spell casting through object work. She believes ceramics is her strongest medium for her conduit work which summons spirits of love, community, queerness, and the eternal search for healing.

Erin Williams
Ceramic Artist

Erin Williams was born and raised in the small river town of Maysville, Kentucky. She received her degree at the University of Indianapolis where she double-majored in Pre-Art Therapy and Ceramics. Since undergrad, Erin has completed an apprenticeship at Whitefish Pottery, worked as a studio assistant and candlemaker, and interned and worked at American Art Clay Company. Although she chose to become a potter instead of an art therapist, art as a way of healing and self-exploration remains an important aspect of her work, often dictating what direction her art will take her next.

https://www.erinwilliamspottery.com/

Willow Stevenson
Ceramic Artist

Willow Stevenson was born and raised in the mountains of Western North Carolina and grew up spending most of her days outside, making art. Willow double majored in Art and Environmental Studies at Guilford College (class of 2021) and was a part of the Bonner Scholars service-learning scholarship program, Guilford College Honors program, Guilford College Senior Art Thesis program, and was an Environmental Studies Distinguished Scholar. She loves working at the intersection of art + the environment as well as integrating multiple mediums such as ceramics, hand-drawn stop motion animation, videos, and projection.

https://www.willowstevenson.com/

Dakota Parkinson
Ceramic Artist

Dakota is a transfeminine ceramics artist hailing from Kansas City with a fair number of years working out of Columbia Missouri. She graduated with her bachelor's in Exercise Physiology from the University of Missouri in 2016. She began working with clay while working as a lab technician and found her passion for the medium during a community woodfire. This lead to an ongoing fascination with the discussion between clay body, grog, glaze, kiln, and atmosphere. She is currently making work and teaching as a resident artist at Access Arts.

www.instagram.com/transfunctional/

Adriana Cristal
Ceramic Artist

Adriana Cristal received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Marymount Manhattan College in 2013. Following undergrad, she worked in Brooklyn, New York, as a studio technician and teacher at Mouse Ceramic Studio. Later on, in 2019, she took on a studio manager position at WALTER FILTER, a slip casting ceramic studio also located in Brooklyn. Though her illustrations have been used for logos, stickers, and handmade books, ceramics remains her main medium. She uses performance and interactive events to showcase her pieces.

www.accesspoint.town
www.adrianacristal.com/