Rhonda Willers

Rhonda Willers is a multidisciplinary artist that creates with ceramics, mixed media, drawing, painting, and time-based installations. She is the author of the book Terra Sigillata: Contemporary Techniques, host of the podcast The Artist in Me Is Dead, former president of the board of directors for the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, and her writing is featured in The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life by Suleika Jaouad and ceramics-based publications such as Pottery Making Illustrated. Connectedness threads itself through her art and life. Working with clay and its 28,000 year old roots, she considers the past, present, and future; ignoring this seems irreverent. Rhonda’s training began at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls (BFA), followed by studies at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth (Post-Bacc) and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (MFA). Working with time as a medium and space as a means to gather, her newest projects explore the power of our experiences existing alone and together. Rhonda records movement histories through soft fluttering tissues strung across a wall. Shifting, they show us another was present as we are present impacting the unseen. White hammocks gathering amongst trees provides space to “just be” with others, reminding us that stillness is a movement. Rhonda teaches ceramics and creativity workshops for learners of all ages. She has led workshops for Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado, Taoxichuan Art Center, Jingdezhen, P. R. China, other art centers (in-person/remote), in addition to K-12 and Universities.