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Biography / Artist Statement / Resume

Joy received a Fine Arts degree in Ceramics at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where then she ventured off to Asheville, North Carolina as a Resident Artist at the Odyssey Center for the Ceramic Arts in Asheville, North Carolina.  After that she established her own clay studio near Penland School of Crafts in Bakersville, North Carolina where she has worked for the past 4 years.  In the summer of 2010, she was awarded a summer residency at the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, Maine.  Currently, she is pursuing a three year Artist Residency at the Energy XChange in Burnsville, North Carolina.  She shares her studio with her husband and potter, William Baker, www.williambakerpottery.com.