Mallory Wetherell

Mallory Wetherell is a native of South Carolina and currently a Professor of Art and the Head of Ceramics at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. She received her BFA in ceramics from the University of South Carolina and her MFA in ceramics from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Mallory has twice been a summer artist in residence and Windgate scholar at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT and was a P.A.i.R. (Ken Price Artist in Residence) at Mud Mesa Studio in Taos, NM in 2022. Recent and upcoming shows include Made in the Plains at the Joslyn Museum of Art in Omaha and the 49th Annual Old Church Pottery Show in NJ. In addition to making her own work, Mallory engages in collaborative projects, with recent collaborations including artists Richard Notkin, Rebecca Hutchinson, and Matt Ziemke. Mallory and her family spend their summers hiking in Colorado, swimming in the Carolinas, tending to their garden, and adopting stray animals.