Addie Low
Addie Low was born in Chapel Hill, NC. She graduated with a B.F.A. in Studio Art and a concentration in ceramics from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, in the spring of 2025. Currently, she works as a Research Assistant for Andréa Keys Connell and works full-time as the Studio Manager at The Pottery Lot, a ceramics studio, in Boone, NC. She has received the Bailey Emerging Artist Scholarship for the 2026 Women Working With Clay Symposium at Hollins University in Roanoke, VA. In 2025, she received the full Phyllis Carson Scholarship to attend the Penland School of Craft Summer Workshop “Stack Up!” with Kyungmin Park. In the summer of 2024, Addie attended a painting workshop in Provence, France, led by Jill Steenhuis. While in college, Addie was the Clay Club president from 2024-2025, and she worked as a teaching assistant in the fall of 2024 for Lisa Stinson.
During the summers of 2023 and 2024, she interned at Joe Sink Pottery and The NC State Ceramics Studio, respectively. As a student, Addie saw Rose Hardesty, Louise Deroualle, and Lisa Clague lead live demonstrations at Appalachian State University. She attended the 58th and 59th NCECA Annual conferences. Featured in several group exhibitions, the most significant being her senior show in May 2025, “The Nature of Me” at the Watauga Arts Council in Boone, NC. Her work is predominantly hand-built figurative sculpture. She works to capture a moment in time, inspired by my memories, emotions, and how nature interacts with the female body. Addie hopes to continue pushing her work technically and conceptually.
The Story Behind The Work
“The most beautiful part of my life this year has been adopting my cat, Glootie. She causes me to slow down and celebrate life and nature more thoroughly. Even though this year has had a lot of pain, heartbreak, and uncertainty, Glootie has lifted me up. She has given me a schedule to stick to and kept me moving through life with joy. To celebrate her, I wanted to create a piece dedicated to her. I coil-built the figure using stoneware clay, and then added on the honeysuckle flowers before bisque firing. After the figure was bisqued, I built the smaller cat figure to sit in her arms. I made sure they fit together before glaze firing them separately, allowing the color of the two different clays to make up most of the surfacing.”