Molly Morningglory

Molly is a visual artist working in a variety of media including ceramics, video, sound, performance, sculpture, fibers, and photography. They received their BFA with distinction as a University Research Scholar from the University of North Carolina at Asheville in 2010 and earned their MFA at Clemson University in 2021. She has been awarded residencies at The Bascom, Odyssey ClayWorks, Breck Create, and The Woolman Kiln via Richard Hotchkiss. Morningglory’s work has been written about in Amazing Glaze and Artillery Magazine. Their work can be found in the permanent collection of North Carolina Pottery at the Mint Museum of Craft and Design in Charlotte. Exhibition highlights include Fahrenheit 2018 Biennial at the American Museum of Ceramic Art, Clay Bodies at Clay Center New Orleans, and Morph at Mash Gallery in Los Angeles, California. They served as juror for the 2020 Sculpture National at the Clay Center New Orleans. She was awarded the R.C Edwards Fellowship from Clemson University from 2019 through 2021 and while a student they received three Graduate Travel Grants, two research Fellowships, and one Visual Arts Department Research Scholarship. They served as a senator for the Visual Arts Department in Graduate Student Government and on the Graduate Student Travel Grant Committee at Clemson University for two years. Their efforts to change the language on the grant review rubric to a more inclusive set of terms and descriptors led to a 1700% increase in funding for research in the arts, and financially supported the research of LGBTQIA students and students of color. In 2021 she received the Outstanding Student Award from the esteemed Surface Design Association. The art collective 0_ (Zero Space), that she is a founding member of, had their debut exhibition, America Unraveling, at the Tipton Street Gallery at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN in March 2022. In May of 2022 she completed a residency congruent with the group exhibition titled Imaginary Landscapes: Stories of the American South at the Bascom in Highlands, NC, curated by Kate Averett of the Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center.