Past Residents
Jamie Bates
Jamie Bates is a ceramic artist and educator whose figurative sculptures explore identity,psychological experience, and the forces that shape how bodies are perceived and remembered. Drawing on psychology, witchcraft, and histories of persecution, Bates creates works that examine vulnerability, transformation, resistance, and collective memory. Their recent research focuses on witch persecution and the regulation of gendered bodies, using symbolic imagery to explore how historical power structures continue to shape contemporary ideas of identity and autonomy.
Bates holds an MFA in Ceramics from the University of Kansas and a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Central Missouri. They are currently Associate Professor of Ceramics at the University of Oklahoma and have participated in numerous residencies, fellowships, and workshops at arts institutions across the United States. Their work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and has received support through grants and research fellowships focused on arts-based inquiry and public scholarship. Bates’ work has been featured in art magazines like Ceramics Monthly, Hi-Fructose, and Create! Jamie has also taken part in various podcasts, and panel discussions addressing contemporary ceramics, censorship, identity, and the role of art in processing collective trauma.
For more work by Jamie Bates visit…
@jamiebatessculpts on Instagram
Kasia Sosnowski
Kasia (she/her) is an artist from southern Alberta, Canada. In 2014, she graduated with a combined BFA in Art History & Museum Studies and Art Studio from the University of Lethbridge. She has worked at the Banff Centre, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, the Allied Arts Council of Lethbridge, and Medalta International Artist in Residence where she worked in preparatory/gallery installation, artist administration, and community building roles. She graduated with an MFA in Sculpture and Ceramics from York University in 2023. She has shown her work in galleries internationally and across Canada including The Esker, Foundation (Calgary), Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre (Regina), Stride Gallery (Calgary), Art Mûr (Montreal), Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton), Corban Estate Arts Centre (New Zealand), the Yuill Family Gallery (Medicine Hat), and Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge).
Sosnowski’s work explores the similarities between comedy and ceramic sculpture through use of timing, tension, absurdity, and visual-gags. These methods work to disarm the viewer in order to discuss more difficult subject matter around transgressive bodies, grief, and recovery.
She is currently living, working, and maintaining her art practice in Calgary, Alberta as she works towards upcoming shows in 2026/2027.
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@badbucket on Instagram
Kendra Yee
Kendra Yee (b. 1995, Tkaronto/ Toronto) is an arts practitioner that seeks to materialize the truths and fictions of memory. Yee pulls tales from; personal stories, lived experience and collective narratives to develop site-specific installations that carve alternative archives. Yee has programmed and exhibited with: The Art Gallery of Ontario, MOCCA, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, The Art Gallery of Burlington, OCAD U, Art Metropole, Xpace Cultural Centre, Patel Brown Gallery, Gallery 44, The Letter Bet, Art Toronto, The Artist Project and Juxtapoz magazine.
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@kendrayee on Instagram
