Red Lodge Clay Center – Short-Term Resident 2025
Jessika Edgar is a ceramic artist based in Metro Detroit. Raised in both Western Massachusetts and Southern California, Jessika has an MFA in Ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art, an MA in Studio Art and BA in Studio Art from California State University Northridge. Jessika has exhibited nationally and internationally.
Her work has been featured in exhibitions at The Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Regis Center for the Arts, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI, Ceramic Research Center and Brickyard Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur, India, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX and Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, and Gyeonggi Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, Rep. of Korea. She has been awarded residencies at Guldagergaard: International Ceramic Research Center, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Wassaic Projects, the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, A.I.R. Vallauris, the Vermont Studio Center, Red Lodge Clay Center, and Medalta.
My research investigates the construction of individual identity as prescribed by societal notions of value and binaries. I pull reference material from popular culture ephemera and media imagery especially related to gender, beauty, and material desire. This research manifests itself in the form of abstract ceramic sculptures that question the established hierarchy that places craft below art. I utilize “crafty” materials, not just clay, but mixed media that include faux fur, acrylic pearls, Mod Podge®, and glitter.