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Conner Mckissack
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Conner Mckissack
Lincoln, Nebraska
Conner Mckissack is an artist in residence at the LUX Center for the Arts in Lincoln, NE where he also currently teaches for Doane College. Raised in South Georgia, Conner earned a BFA from Valdosta State University and his MFA from the University of Florida in 2007. Since then he has been creating and exhibiting nationally as well as teaching whenever possible. The current work addresses both the arrangemnent of forms (primarily through softly constructed multiples) as well as the rearrangement of a traditional pottery aesthetic.
Of his work, Mckissack writes:
Design and contemporary culture inform my work as a functional potter. The pots are created with consideration of everyday behavior, and a respect for traditional vessels. Working with multiples, to create groupings, allows me to engage the viewer within an intimate setting to invite sensory contact. Displaying the work in this format also forces me to consider the arrangement or the organization of these items. The pieces are intimate in scale, and address the tactility of the material through form. The works are softly colored and pleasing when held in one’s hand."
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