Stephanie Rozene

@politicalpotter

Stephanie A. Rozene is a Professor of Art and the ceramics program coordinator at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY where she has been awarded the Wandersee Scholar in Residence and the Teacher Scholar Award. Rozene’s research streams include the use of historical ornament and porcelain as a visual language in order to critique contemporary political rhetoric and investigation of the history of clay as a tool for cooking. Her current research is in collaboration with British Historian Paul Greenhalgh on both a book project on the history of pottery and food and as co-hosts of a new podcast on the history of ceramics produced by Heni London.

She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at multiple venues including the Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, NY), The Philadelphia Clay Studio, Red Star Studios (Kansas City, MO), Harvard Ceramics, (Boston, MA), SOFA Chicago and VIA Vallauris (France) and has completed residencies at the International Ceramics Studio (Kecskemet, HU) VIA Vallauris (Vallauris, FR), Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (Maine) and The Hambidge Center (Georgia). Her work was recently included in the National Council for the Education for Ceramic Arts Annual exhibition, I Contain Multitudes at the Weston Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio (2023). Rozene serves as a trustee and Vice President of the board at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME and is a member of the International Academy of Ceramics. She is dedicated to the advancement and development of the field of Craft History and Theory.