“Garden Pictures: Bordered by Pink (Oak Spring Garden Foundation),” 2024, porcelain, picture frame: 36 x 30 x 1 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Teaching Artist Cohort
2025
Juliane Shibata is a ceramic artist and educator based in Northfield, Minnesota. Her work is informed by the Japanese concept of mujō (mutability and impermanence), as well as the Pattern & Decoration movement. Juliane draws viewers to her work through the rhythm of repeated forms that visually energize the space around them. Her most recent installations aim to consider the nature of our existence by redirecting our awareness of and engagement with the constructed environment, the spaces we occupy, and the traces of human presence in and around the architectural structures we encounter.
Juliane received her MFA from Bowling Green State University in Ohio and was awarded a 2021 McKnight Artist Fellowship for Ceramic Artists and Artist Initiative grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board in 2014, 2018, and 2020. She received the Tile Heritage Prix Primo award at the 23rd Annual San Angelo National Ceramic Competition and first place in the 62nd Arrowhead Regional Biennial. Juliane has been a resident artist at Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Starworks Center, Art Omi, the Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China, and the College of Biological Sciences Conservatory & Botanical Collection at the University of Minnesota. Her installations have been commissioned by Abbott Northwestern Hospital and the Four Seasons Hotel Minneapolis, among others.
Selected works
“Drip (third iteration: July 15, 2023) Art Omi,” earthenware, 120 x 44 x 1 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Drip (detail),” 2023. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Intervention #2, 10/22/23,” unwanted commercial tiles, earthenware, 71 x 78 x 1 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Running: conduit (2nd iteration: May 16, 2024), Starworks Metals Studio,” clays from North Carolina, grolleg, earthenware, 132 x 408 x 7 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Drape (2nd iteration: May 15, 2024), Starworks Center receiving door,” grolleg porcelain; porcelain and terra sigillata from North Carolina, 93 x 130 x .5 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Garden Pictures: Bordered by Pink (Oak Spring Garden Foundation),” 2024, porcelain, picture frame: 36 x 30 x 1 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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