About Olivia
Olivia Jenson is a potter working in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her education includes studying ceramics at the University of Wisconsin - River Falls, as well as earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities titled, “Art, Community, and Wellbeing.”
She has studied at the Curaumilla Art Center in Chile as well as Penland School of Craft in North Carolina. In 2017, she began working with Warren MacKenzie as a studio apprentice and worked in his studio until May of 2020. Since then, she has worked alongside Nick Earl at the Abnet Farm, with Mike Norman as his studio apprentice, as well as at Great River Gallery in the West 7th neighborhood. She currently resides in St. Paul.
Olivia is most interested in texture and form in her pots. She uses stoneware and porcelain clay bodies fired in high-fire gas reduction kilns as well as occasionally firing in wood kilns, and is most influenced by Japanese, Korean, and English pottery, as well as the “Mingei-sota” aesthetic, throwing pots with a Leach style treadle wheel. She is committed to making approachable, inviting pots that bring beauty into everyday life.
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Exhibitions/Shows/Publications:
2026: “The 32nd Annual St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour”, Taylors Falls, MN
2026: “Valley Pottery: 2,000 Years”, ArtReach St. Croix, Stillwater, MN
2025: “9th Annual Yunomi Invitational”, Raymond Avenue Gallery, St. Paul, MN
2025: “Cup North III,” The Crossing Arts Alliance, Brainerd, MN
2025: “The 32nd Annual St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour”, Taylors Falls, MN
2024: “8th Annual Yunomi Invitational”, Raymond Avenue Gallery, St. Paul, MN
2024: “Cup North II,” The Crossing Arts Alliance, Brainerd, MN2024: “Inviting Pots, Compelling Paintings”, Raymond Avenue Gallery, St. Paul, MN
2024: “The 32nd Annual St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour”, Taylors Falls, MN
2023: “7th Annual Yunomi Invitational”, Raymond Avenue Gallery, St. Paul, MN
2023: “The 31st Annual St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour”, Taylors Falls, MN
2022: ”Celebrating Kent McLaughlin”, Schaller Gallery, Baroda, MI
2021: “Finding Place,” ArtReach St. Croix, Stillwater, MN
2019: “Makers, Bakers and Caffeinators”, Great River Gallery, St. Paul, MN
2019: “Dearest”, Subsequence Magazine, LA, CA
2019: “Holiday Celebration of the Arts”, The Anderson Center, Red Wing, MN
2019: “Emerging Artists of the STX”, ArtReach St. Croix, Stillwater, MN
2019: “6th Annual Yunomi Invitational”, Raymond Avenue Gallery, St. Paul, MN
2019: “One Square Foot”, Artreach St. Croix, Stillwater, MN2018: “Holiday Celebration of the Arts”, The Anderson Center, Red Wing, MN
2018: “5th Annual Yunomi Invitational”, Raymond Avenue Gallery, St. Paul, MN
2018: “One Square Foot”, Artreach St. Croix, Stillwater, MN
2016: “American Craft Show: School-to-Market”, American Craft Council, RiverCentre, St. Paul, MN
2015: “St Paul Jaycee’s Les Farrington Best 100 Juried Art Exhibition”, AZ Galery, St. Paul, MN
2014: “St Paul Jaycee’s Les Farrington Best 100 Juried Art Exhibition”, AZ Gallery, St. Paul, MN
2013: “Artists of Northern Clay Center”, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN