The Second Year Fellowship Reception
Caroline Roberts
Caroline's studio practice has long circled the aesthetics of everyone’s least-favored pots from the wood kiln—the underfired pots, often stubbornly and not without great effort, from the far reaches of a kiln. These are the pots that might otherwise be unceremoniously tossed to the shard pile: surfaces marked by muted flame, a light non-stick dusting of ash, and the quiet presence of bare clay. Caroline is drawn to their subtlety—to pots that resist immediate resolution and insist on unfolding slowly over time.
Caroline Roberts is an artist potter, born in Wisconsin and raised across the upper Midwest. She completed her B.S. in Fine Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2020 and her MFA at Utah State University in 2026. Roberts has completed residencies at Cub Creek Foundation in Virginia and at Pleasant Hill Pottery in Oregon. She has taught atmospheric firing workshops as well as participated in numerous exhibitions nationwide.
