Artist Statement:
My practice is rooted in the experience of motherhood, a journey that has transformed both my identity and my creative process. Since becoming a mother, I’ve explored how this new role encompasses acts of sacrifice, protection, nurturing, and unconditional giving. Through my work with clay, I express these complexities in sculptural baskets, which have become a central motif in my practice. The basket, a symbol of containment, offering, and abundance, serves as a reflection of the emotional and physical labor that defines motherhood. Baskets are vessels of care; they hold, carry, protect, and present. They are deeply utilitarian, but also symbolic.
My sculptures explore the balance between the nurturing, domestic aspects of maternal life and the profound strength that lies within this role. In the tender chaos of motherhood, there exists a quiet resilience: a delicate balance between bearing the weight of it all and seeking moments of personal transformation amidst the overwhelm. I aim to honor both the quiet and the loud aspects of motherhood… the softness and the strength, the containment and the release. The sculptures become quiet monuments to the careful work of mothering, to the repetition of domestic labor, and to the abundance that can exist even in monotony.
CV:
REBECA PROCTOR
Ceramic Artist · Craftswoman · Educator
Elgin & Austin, Texas
713-818-3342
EDUCATION
BFA, Studio Art, University of Texas at Austin — 2018
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
East Side Pot Shop — Co-Owner & Instructor
Austin, Texas
Nom Ceramics — Co-Founder
Austin, Texas
University of Texas at Austin — Studio Art, BFA
Austin, Texas · 2018
Anderson Ranch Arts Center — Intern
Snowmass Village, Colorado · 2018
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & ART FAIRS
Untitled Art Fair Houston — Artist Market
October 2026 · Houston, Texas
From Her Hands — Mitrici Gallery
May 2026 · Manor, Texas
Friends Fair
May 2026 · Austin, Texas
Ain’t Hold Much, Ain’t Too Much to Hold — Co-Lab Gallery
November 2025 · Austin, Texas
Texas Clay Festival
October 2025 · Gruene, Texas
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out — Visual Arts Center at UT Austin
November 2024 · Austin, Texas
Soft Opening — DORF Gallery
October 2024 · Austin, Texas
Texas Clay Festival
October 2024 · Gruene, Texas
Nom Ceramics: Solo Exhibition — Companion Gallery
August 2024 · Humboldt, Tennessee
Texas Clay Festival
October 2023 · Gruene, Texas
HOUSE PARTY — projectART Wimberley
September 2023 · Wimberley, Texas
Material Mugs VII — Companion Gallery
September 2023 · Humboldt, Tennessee
Yunomi Invitational — Clay Akar
June 2023 · Iowa City, Iowa
Americano Invitational — Clay Akar
December 2022 · Iowa City, Iowa
Nom Ceramics: Solo Exhibition — Companion Gallery
November 2022 · Humboldt, Tennessee
Texas Clay Festival
October 2022 · Gruene, Texas
Our Lives in Clay 2021 — Charlie Cummings Gallery
November 2021 · Gainesville, Florida
Texas Clay Festival
October 2021 · Gruene, Texas
Material Mugs VI — Companion Gallery
August 2021 · Humboldt, Tennessee
Yunomi Invitational 2021 — Clay Akar
June 2021 · Iowa City, Iowa
Nom Ceramics: BECOMING SWEET — Solo Exhibition
Charlie Cummings Gallery · June 2021 · Gainesville, Florida
A Wished For and Welcome Guest — Co-Lab Projects
April 2021 · Austin, Texas
Last Call VI — Companion Gallery
March 2021 · Humboldt, Tennessee
Small Favors 2021 — The Clay Studio
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nom Ceramics: Solo Exhibition — Companion Gallery
December 2020 · Humboldt, Tennessee
Texas Clay Festival — Online Exhibition
October 2020 · Gruene, Texas
Material Mugs V — Companion Gallery
August 2020 · Humboldt, Tennessee
Summer Clay Jam 2020 — Charlie Cummings Gallery
July 2020 · Gainesville, Florida
Nom Ceramics: Window Dressing — ICOSA Gallery
June 2020 · Austin, Texas
Spring Exhibition — Companion Gallery
2020 · Humboldt, Tennessee
TEXAS TOAST — Co-Lab Projects
December 2019 · Austin, Texas
Texas Clay Festival
October 2019 · Gruene, Texas
Partial Shade Presents: A Pit Fire — Co-Lab Projects
October 2019 · Austin, Texas
Dirt Dauber Festival 2019 — Eye of the Dog Art Center
June 2019 · San Marcos, Texas
Constructured Clay Scapes — Gallery Verde, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art
April 2019 · San Angelo, Texas
Different Flowers — Martha’s Contemporary
March 2019 · Austin, Texas
MASS+1 — Mass Gallery
April 2018 · Austin, Texas
RESIDENCIES & WORKSHOPS
2022 Winter Residency — Penland School of Craft
2022
Wild Clay Retreat — Host & Instructor
Sayulita, Mexico · February 2022
PRESS & FEATURES
Ceramics Monthly — Emerging Artist
Nom Ceramics · May 2021 issue
Ceramics Monthly — “Harmony & Contrast”
Featured Artist · September 2020 issue
PRESENTATIONS
Greater Austin Clay Artists — Artist Presentation
Austin, Texas · October 2019