Breana Hendricks is Clay Art Center’s Westchester Community Foundation’s Young Artist Fellow. She earned her BFA from the State University of New York at New Paltz, NY. Before coming to Port Chester, she received the Windgate-Lamar Fellowship Award by the Center of Craft in Asheville, NC. Breana has exhibited in galleries across Hudson Valley, New York and served as a Chili Bowl Intern and Instructor at Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY. She has been with Clay Art Center since 2019 as a Community Arts Assistant and Westchester Fellow.
Artist Statement
“Becoming features works that explore my racial and gender identities. I'm inspired by pottery production in West African, Caribbean, and South American communities. I reference an integral ceramic tradition to sculpt figurative vases and funerary jars, and balance rich clay bodies with decorative tableware illustrating self portrait silhouettes. Observing the roles of women who make pots for everyday and ritual purposes gives me a new understanding of my own values and domestic responsibilities.”
Watch Breana Hendricks introduce “Becoming”
