“Stillness is the Move,” 2022–23, ceramic, glaze, silverleaf, varying dimensions. Photo credit: Neighboring States Photo.
Teaching Artist Cohort
2025
Chris M. Rodgers (b. 1988, Charleston, WV) is currently the artist-in-residence in ceramics at Missouri State University, where he works full time as an artist and educator. After earning his bachelor’s degree from West Virginia State University in 2013, and before continuing his education through the post-baccalaureate program at Kansas State University, he studied ceramics at Tainan National University of the Arts in Taiwan and earned his MFA from the University of Arkansas in 2019.
Following graduate school, Rodgers received the 2019 Governor’s Purchase Award at the West Virginia Juried Exhibition and was awarded a grant from the Lighton International Artist Exchange Program to support international research. He also received the Chrysalis Award of Excellence from the James Renwick Alliance in 2020.
Rodgers has participated in several artist residencies, including c.r.e.t.a. Rome (Italy), Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (Maine), Ox-Bow School of Art (Michigan), and Casa Lü (Mexico City). From 2020 to 2024, he was a long-term resident artist at the Clay Studio in Philadelphia, where he also served as the full-time Ceramics Area Supervisor at the University of the Arts. He has exhibited widely, including solo and two-person shows such as Gently Down the Stream at Headstone Gallery (Kingston, New York), and Stillness Is the Move at The Clay Studio (Philadelphia). In summer 2025, he will attend the Taoxichuan Residency in Longquan, China, which will culminate in a solo exhibition.
Selected works
“Stillness is the Move,” 2022–23, ceramic, glaze, silverleaf, varying dimensions. Photo credit: Neighboring States Photo.
“Stillness is the Move, A Soft Warm Glow (Orange Tree),” 2022–23, ceramic, glaze, silverleaf, varying dimensions. Photo credit: Neighboring States Photo.
“Stillness is the Move, Reflection (A Sphere of Feathers),” 2022–23, ceramic, glaze, silverleaf, varying dimensions. Photo credit: Neighboring States Photo.
“Gently Down the Stream, Painting (Brown and Purple Cross),” 2023, colored ceramic with handmade grog, approx. 11 x 8.5 x 1 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Gently Down the Stream, Painting (Hourglass),” 2023, colored ceramic with handmade grog, approx. 11 x 8.5 x 1 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Where There Ends and Begins (detail),” 2020–21, ceramic, mirror, handmade steel tables, varying dimensions. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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