Christy Wittmer

Christy Wittmer’s work balances experimentation with skilled craft to create sculptures and installations that challenge expectations of function and notions of stability.

Wittmer earned an MFA in ceramics from the University of Cincinnati and a BFA in sculpture and painting from Miami University. She just returned from Jingdezhen, China, where she spent ten months making artwork and learning traditional techniques for working with porcelain as part of a Fulbright grant.

Wittmer worked as a glaze chemist at Rookwood Pottery in Cincinnati, OH, and was the 2015–16 Ceramics Artist-in-Residence at the Lawrence Arts Center in Lawrence, KS. She has attended artist residencies in Berlin, Germany; the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada; and the Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China. Christy currently lives and works in Phoenix, AZ.