Carolyn Mimbs

Bio

Carolyn Mimbs has been teaching art for thirteen years in Kansas City, Missouri. She received her BS in Art Education through Missouri State University in 2008 and her MFA in Ceramics at Fort Hays State University 2020. Mimbs has been an active member and volunteer at Belger Crane Yard Studios and has exhibited her ceramic art locally and nationally including exhibitions at the New Orleans Clay Center, the Clay Studio of Missoula, Sweetwater Center for the Arts, and a solo show at the Trap Gallery in Columbus Park, Kansas City. She has been the recipient of the FHSU Graduate Scholarly Experience Grant, furthering her exploration of printing on clay. She has dreams to travel the world while creating her art and expanding her artistic community, as well as aspirations to one day work at the collegiate level, preparing future ceramic artists.

Artist Statement

Through exploration of roots and establishing a deep appreciation for family, heritage, and upbringing, Carolyn Mimbs is on a journey into realms of personal discovery and a reconnection to the earth. Distant memories are unearthed through a vintage aesthetic and sensual, vulnerable forms interacting and struggling within their surroundings. Artist and art have travelled along the same path and rhythm with increasing strides as desires are directed towards personal growth and transformation. Learning to retreat into the process of life and art is expressed through creation and disintegration, seeing the path that our corporeal bodies make as they one day return to the earth, completing the cycle of birth, formation, enlightenment, and death.