Mary Cale Wilson

Mary Cale holds a BFA in Ceramics and Art Education from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. She received her MFA in Ceramics at San Diego State University. She recently completed a residency at The American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, California. She was awarded a Windgate Scholar residency at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, Montana and a Windgate Foundation grant recipient. She has also participated in a Winter Residency at Penland School of Crafts in Penland, North Carolina, and the New Children’s Museum in San Diego, California. She has lectured and provided workshops nationwide at colleges, universities, and craft centers.

Mary Cale’s ceramic work is interdisciplinary, combining ceramics with video, painting, sculpture, and mixed media. She focuses on low-fire and earthenware processes, hand-building (sculptural and functional), mold-making, slip-casting, and surface design in her ceramic practice. Originally from rural Southeastern Georgia, her work explores identity, heritage, and culture as a woman from the American South.