Cheri Owen

Cheri Owen produces mixed media ceramic sculpture, functional wares, and prints. With a penchant for tactile mediums like ceramics and printmaking, she aspires to share her work with a world she can no longer see. As a blind artist, Owen’s pedagogy is centered on mindfulness, awareness and letting go of the attachment to visuality and its assumed outcomes. Engaging their senses beyond eyesight, Owen invites her students to take risks with the clay, and in turn, with themselves. She is the recipient of an Emerging Artists Fellowship, awarded by the California Arts Council (2023), Owen will be a summer resident at Township 10 in Marshall, NC, and is an ongoing artist-in-residence working collaboratively with students, staff, and faculty at Crane Country Day School in Montecito, CA.