Mallory Wetherell

Mallory is originally from South Carolina, where she began her collegiate studies in the sciences with plans to study prosthetic design. Her focus shifted during her junior year and she went on to complete her BFA in ceramics from the University of South Carolina and later her MFA in ceramics from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. She has served as Gallery Coordinator at The Clay Studio of Philadelphia, the east coast’s largest non-profit ceramics organization and has been an artist-in-residence at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana. She has taught ceramics at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and most recently was a visiting artist/faculty, along with her husband, Matt Ziemke, at Indiana University Southeast. Mallory joined the UNK Art Department as head of ceramics in 2014, bringing with her, her husband, two dogs, and daughter.