Closing Artist Talk - 2023-2024 AIR Paige O'Toole

In this closing presentation by AMOCA Artist in Residence Paige O'Toole, the artist shares about her practice, work, and future directions. This virtual talk, which was presented and recorded on July 23, 2024, marks the conclusion of O'Toole's residency in the AMOCA Studios.

Paige O’Toole is a ceramic artist from Garrison, New York. Focusing on the intersection of gender, space and the domestic, her work explores themes of memory through gesture, and illusion through perception. O’Toole’s mark in clay is both immediate and archival, lasting and tangible evidence of her insatiable touch. She received her MFA at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and holds a BA in Art History and a BFA in Ceramics from State University of New York at New Paltz. O’Toole was in residence at AMOCA August 2023–July 2024.

The AMOCA Artist in Residence Program, established in 2012, is one of the few long-term fellowship opportunities for ceramic artists on the West Coast. Located an hour from the desert, mountains, and beaches of Southern California and forty minutes east of Los Angeles, the residency provides artists an opportunity to produce or develop a new body of work. Beginning in 2022, thanks to enhanced support from the Windgate Foundation, additional short term residencies are available for artists based in Southern California.

This AIR program is funded through generous support from Julianne and David Armstrong, Laguna Clay, and the Windgate Foundation.