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Christa Assad’s work has recently been featured in Garth Clark’s Shards , Kevin A. Hluch’s The Art of Contemporary Pottery, and Lark Books‘ 500 Teapots and 500 Pitchers. Christa earned degrees from Indiana University (MFA, 2000), the Pennsylvania State University (BA, 1992), and studied as a special student at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1993-94). She was awarded a J. William Fulbright Research and Travel Grant (1993), and was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award (2005). Christa has been named Emerging Artist by Ceramics Monthly (May, 2002), and in 2003 she took four awards in the 11th Annual Strictly Functional Pottery National. Christa and her work most recently appeared aboard Artstream Nomadic Gallery at the 2007 NCECA conference, the American Pottery Festival at the Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN, and Art of the Pot, in Austin, TX. Christa was co-owner of Verdigris Clay Studio + Gallery, in San Francisco’s historic Cannery Building, for the past seven years. Now residing in Kansas City, MO, she has taken on a teaching post at the Kansas City Art Institute.
