Nicole Woodard

bio

Nicole Rene Woodard is an artist living in Kansas City, Missouri. She earned a Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the University of Kansas in 2021. Nicole was awarded the Foundation Residency at Belger Arts in Kansas City in 2021 and 2022. She teaches foundation and ceramic courses at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. Nicole is exhibiting nationally and has completed short term residencies at the Hambidge Center and Penland School of Crafts.

Artist Statement

I make work that focuses on portraiture and the human form. I’m deeply motivated by my own emotional struggles and confronting fundamental traumas in my life. Making is intuitive and helps to create part of myself in a tangible form. I'm showing truth of my human condition by shedding the burden I carry, and am looking onto the future of whom I want to become.