Jaydan Moore

Jaydan Moore was born into a family of fourth-generation tombstone makers in California. Most of his childhood was largely spent at the family business, which doubled as a rental storage space, where he would rummage through other people’s objects and listen to families making arrangements for their loved ones. It is these experiences that made him value the heirlooms and objects we choose to use as markers for significant moments. His career began as an undergraduate student at the California College of the Arts in Oakland and he received his MFA and MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Jaydan has furthered his career through generous opportunities as an artist-in-residence at Penland School of Crafts, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, and a Fountainhead Fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth Universities Craft/Material Studies Program. He has also received grants from the American Craft Councils Emerging Voices Program, North Carolina Arts Fellowship, and the Peter S. Reed Foundation.

Moore has shown in exhibitions at Design/Miami (FL), Basel (SWI), Cheongju Craft Biennale (South Korea), Museum of Craft and Design (CA), Racine Art Museum (WI), Fuller Craft Museum (MA), and the Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design (NC). He has also held teaching appointments at Rhode Island School of Design, Virginia Commonwealth University in the Craft Materials Studies Program, California College of the Arts, Penland School of Crafts, and Haystack Mountain School of Craft.