I am an interdisciplinary maker with a strong dedication to mark-making, form, and process where concepts often dictate materials and vice versa; I love experimentation and play in the studio. The result of this love seems to show up as a mix of abstract and representational records of language, moments in time in my process, intimate relationships and history utilizing text, repetition, negative space, color and form. At this time, I’m focusing on making artist books with cyanotypes and visual poetry as well as my new studio project, Elephant Shoe Studio, which offers ceramic classes, workshops and limited batch fun, functional objects for the body and where you call home.

I am not only deeply committed to my own personal practice as a maker, I have a strong desire as an educator to provide access and create safe and inclusive spaces to assist people of any age achieve their definition of success in their own practice. 

Bio: 

Danielle M. Potwin was born and raised in Massachusetts and now lives in Washington State; she holds her BFA in Sculpture from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and has taught high school and assisted in teaching college classes in clay, drawing, painting, hot glass, sculpture and printmaking.