Priscilla Hollingsworth
Arts/Industry: Pottery, 1996
Priscilla Hollingsworth is a ceramic artist whose work includes sculpture, installations, and vessels. She has shown her work in numerous individual and group exhibitions across the US. Photographs of her work have been published in seven books, including 500 Vases (Lark Books, 2010), 500 Tiles (Lark Books, 2008) and Ceramics: A Potter’s Handbook (Glenn Nelson and Richard Burkett, Harcourt College Publishers, 2002).
Hollingsworth participated in residencies with the John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s Arts/Industry program; the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada; the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Maine; Artpark in Lewiston, New York; and the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. She has received individual artist grants from the states of Georgia and Indiana.
She received a MFA from Indiana University, Bloomington, and an AB from Princeton University, where she studied with Toshiko Takaezu. She earned her high school diploma in visual arts from the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem. Currently, Priscilla Hollingsworth lives and works in Augusta, Georgia.