Jill Foote-Hutton
Artist Biography
Since 2004 Jill Foote-Hutton has directed the Art Department at East Central College in Union, MO, where she has updated not only the program, but also the gallery space. Under her leadership a strong visiting artist program is evolving.
In 2007 she moved into a restored bank in New Haven, MO where she has a working studio and alternative gallery space with her husband. The exhibitions target the work of contemporary ceramic artists, providing a safe place for the clay arts to push and break their limits. Constantly engaged in critical dialogue and observations, her writings have been published in Ceramics Monthly and Studio Potter Magazine.
She continues to create and exhibit her own work nationally. Her most recent endeavors include the pursuit of alternative venues in order to bring the arts to a broader audience.
She completed her MFA in Ceramics under Ron Dale at the University of Mississippi in 2003, after earning her BFA in sculpture from Webster University, St. Louis, MO. While in graduate school she was a studio assistant at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine and Santa Fe Clay in New Mexico. Jill was the recipient of the 2003 Graduate Student Achievement Award at the University of Mississippi. She also was awarded a Yoknapatawpha Arts Council Grant, a Director's Recognition Award from the Period Gallery in Omaha, NE.
