Maria Spiess
Maria Spiess
Maria Spiess is currently an Artist-in-Residence at Clay Art Center, in Port Chester, NY. She has completed residencies at Lux Center for the Arts (Lincoln, NE), Woodstock Byrdcliffe Arts Colony (Woodstock, NY), Taos Clay Studio (Taos, NM), Golden Bridge Pottery (Pondicherry, India), and Chautauqua Institution (Chautauqua, NY). Maria grew up in Bowling Green, Ohio, where she also began her pursuit of ceramic arts studies at BGSU.
As people come and go in our lives, we are affected in varying ways by their presence, words, and actions. Though it may not always feel obvious, we are changed as we absorb their influence.
Like a breeze over water, they effect us and move us, turning us into waves.