Gratia Brown, M.F.A.
Associate Professor
Gratia loves to make things, break things, and create pieces that celebrate the poetic nature of fragments and debris. She earned her Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and her Bachelor of Arts in the History of Art & Architecture and Anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Valley City State University (ND), where she teaches ceramics, sculpture, art methods, and art history.
Recent exhibitions include the 65th Midwestern Invitational Exhibition of Fine Art: The Omnipotence of Dreams: A Century of Surrealism at the Rourke Art Gallery + Museum (MN), 30×30, Blue Line Arts (CA), 10x10x10xTieton, Mighty Tieton Warehouse(WA), and Contemporary Ceramic Art from the National Museum of Slovenia, Škofja Loka Museum(SVN). Residencies include Studio Paducah (KY), Northern State University (SD), University of North Dakota (ND), The Ceramics Center (IA), Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts (ME), I-Park (CT), and The Hungarian Multicultural Center, Budapest, Hungary. Scholarships and assistantships include Haystack Mountain School of Craft (ME), Split Rock Arts Program (MN), Penland School of Craft (NC), and Arrowmont School of Art and Craft (TN).
