Winnie Owens-Hart

Winnie Owens-Hart is a cultural researcher, author, ceramic artist, and documentary filmmaker. Her life’s work and passion revolves around the creative process, the historical significance of clay workers globally, and the preservation of all aboriginal ceramics.

Owens-Hart is founder of the ILE AMO Research Center, dedicated to world aboriginal ceramics, and the Women’s Pottery House, dedicated to improving the lives of traditional female potters and their children through their clay work. Owens-Hart is a Professor Emeritus, Department of Art, Howard University, Washington, D.C. Her honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Craftsmen Fellowship; Renwick Fellow, Smithsonian American Art Museum; Faculty Research Fellow, Smithsonian American Art Museum; and several faculty research grants, Howard University.

She has over thirty years of exhibiting nationally and internationally, and her work can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, universities, and in public and private collections. Owens-Hart has always wanted to do an Arts/Industry residency at Kohler Co. and plans to create life-size figural sculptures in the Pottery studio.