Artist Talk with Mary Cale Wilson

About

Mary Cale Wilson‘s sculptures, ceramics, and paintings explore themes of visual culture, memory, and home. She holds Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in Ceramics and Art Education from the University of Georgia and an MFA in Ceramics from San Diego State University. Wilson has participated in prestigious residencies, including the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, where she was a Windgate Scholar, and a winter residency at Penland School of Craft. In recognition of her work, she was named a Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist in 2019. Wilson’s work has been showcased extensively, with exhibitions at venues such as the Clay Studio of Philadelphia, The American Museum of Ceramic Art, and The California Center for the Arts. Notably, her pieces have been featured in the 76th Scripps Ceramics Annual as well as the 2020 and 2023 NCECA Annuals. Mary Cale shares her love of clay as a ceramics instructor at San Diego State University. Wilson is in residence at AMOCA from April–August 2024.

AMOCA’s Artist in Residence Program, established in 2012, is one of the few long-term fellowship opportunities for ceramic artists on the West Coast. This residency provides artists an opportunity to produce or develop a new body of work. The program is funded through generous support from Julianne and David Armstrong, Laguna Clay, and the Windgate Foundation. Since 2022, thanks to enhanced support from the Windgate Foundation, additional short-term residencies are available for artists based in Southern California.