Dowd House Studios combines the very individual pottery and art produced by Jenny and Sam Dowd. Jenny loves to draw, sculpt, and make quirky interactive art but spends most of her time with her other passion – making functional pottery to elevate daily food rituals. Sometimes her pottery tells stories through illustrated surfaces and their interaction with each other. Sometimes these surfaces are full of line and pattern, or restrained minimalism. Mostly working in porcelain; Jenny strives for thoughtful, useful design. Sam on the other hand makes sculptural yet utilitarian pottery that often brings alive the quirky habits found in animals – real and imagined.
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Maker
Jenny Dowd
Business
Dowd House Studios
City
Prairie Grove
Website
https://www.dowdhousestudios.com/
Bio
As a kid in Kansas, Jenny Dowd credits an insatiable appetite for all things art to creative, inventive parents, constant reading and “epic road trips” with the fam. After earning her BFA in Ceramics from Kansas State (where she met her husband, Sam by exchanging phone numbers carved into pieces of clay) and an MFA from the University of Missouri-Columbia, Jenny has taught and shown art all over the U.S.
A recent transplant to NWA, Jenny and Sam now live in Prairie Grove where they operate Dowd House Studios as full-time artists. Fascinated by the relationship between collector and object, Jenny primarily works in clay to produce functional, quirky, interactive pieces that jive with place and person. She also teaches at the Community Creative Center in Fayetteville.