About Me
Betsy Morningstar
I love yellow, donuts and my cat Vesper. My hobbies include making peanut butter, carrying my cat up into my loft studio, and smiling. I am a full time high school art teacher near Baltimore, Maryland.
Lined paper has been in my life for as long as I can remember. As a kid, I drew all over it. I scrawled lists and scribbles. I have carefully folded it into love letters, wrinkled it with use, and torn bits for silly notes and gum wrappers. I use it to organize life, and store memories. Lined paper is familiar, nostalgic, comfortable, but often unacknowledged in day to day life.
I enjoy the magic of trompe l'oeil as I manipulate porcelain to mimic the normalcy of notebook paper, creating the comfort of blue and red lines, the placement of binder holes, and the inevitable frayed edge. I find beauty in the folds, wrinkles and waviness of used paper.
I started creating porcelain notebook papers out of a need to find and see importance in each day, and communicate outside of myself in a physical way. Each porcelain paper features journal notes and fleeting moments from a day in my life, now forever special and permanent. The notes vary on the emotional spectrum of life, but all are significant moments I never want to forget. They are my brain and my heart in physical form.
I enjoy the magic of trompe l'oeil as I manipulate porcelain to mimic the normalcy of notebook paper, creating the comfort of blue and red lines, the placement of binder holes, and the inevitable frayed edge. I find beauty in the folds, wrinkles and waviness of used paper.
I started creating porcelain notebook papers out of a need to find and see importance in each day, and communicate outside of myself in a physical way. Each porcelain paper features journal notes and fleeting moments from a day in my life, now forever special and permanent. The notes vary on the emotional spectrum of life, but all are significant moments I never want to forget. They are my brain and my heart in physical form.
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EXHIBITIONS
2024 — Ceci N'est Pas Du Papier, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
2023 — theTABLE2023, Above Board Ceramics, New Haven, CT
2022 — Mimic, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2022 — Sip: A Ceramic Cup Show 2022, Savannah Clay Community, Savannah, GA
2022 — American Craft Council Show, Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD
2022 — Say Something: Tactile Voices In Clay, Saratoga Arts Center, Schuylerville, NY
2022 — Mug Madness, Saltstone Ceramics, Seattle, WA
2022 — Creative Catalyst, Slayton House, Columbia, MD
2021 — Notes, Master of Ceramics Exhibition, Hood College, Frederick, MD
2021 — HCPSS Teachers As Artists Show, Columbia, MD
2021 — Small Favors, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
2021 — Sip: A Ceramic Cup Show 2021, Savannah Clay Community, Savannah, GA
2012 — Action [Re]Action Art Show, Harrisburg, PA
2010 — Mind Mapping, Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA
2022 — Mimic, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2022 — Sip: A Ceramic Cup Show 2022, Savannah Clay Community, Savannah, GA
2022 — American Craft Council Show, Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD
2022 — Say Something: Tactile Voices In Clay, Saratoga Arts Center, Schuylerville, NY
2022 — Mug Madness, Saltstone Ceramics, Seattle, WA
2022 — Creative Catalyst, Slayton House, Columbia, MD
2021 — Notes, Master of Ceramics Exhibition, Hood College, Frederick, MD
2021 — HCPSS Teachers As Artists Show, Columbia, MD
2021 — Small Favors, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
2021 — Sip: A Ceramic Cup Show 2021, Savannah Clay Community, Savannah, GA
2012 — Action [Re]Action Art Show, Harrisburg, PA
2010 — Mind Mapping, Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA
SPECIAL EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS
2024 — Featured Artist, The Tandem Gallery, Bakersville, NC
2022 — Esme Chicago, Chicago, IL— Commissioned Artist
2022 — Featured Artist, The Muse, Frederick, MD— Artist Demonstration
2020 — Porcelain Workshop, Hood College, Frederick, MD— Teaching Artist
2022 — Featured Artist, The Muse, Frederick, MD— Artist Demonstration
2020 — Porcelain Workshop, Hood College, Frederick, MD— Teaching Artist