Amy Hauber - GUEST ARTIST - STUDIO #2

Amy Hauber is an artist and educator residing in Canton, NY where she is an Associate Professor of Art at St.Lawrence University. At St. Lawrence she teaches in the areas of sculpture, ceramic sculpture, digital media and foundations with an emphasis on cross-disciplinary / inter-media studies in all three areas.Born in Chicago IL and transplanted many times before landing at the age of 12 in her parent’s hometown of Pittsburgh, PA. Hauber studied Information Science, English Writing and Fine Arts at both the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University before receiving her MFA in Art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design Carnegie Mellon University and now St. Lawrence University. 

Working across media disciplines, her research interests include, among other things, the construction of identity, morality and personal aesthetics within contemporary society.  Hauber has twice been a resident artist in the John Michael Kohler Arts Center's ARTS/industry program, was awarded an honorary fellowship from University of Wisconsin-Madison and has exhibited her work nationally. Hauber’s work has been published and discussed across the country and notably her ceramic-based objects were featured in American Craft Magazine: Portfolio Amy Hauber December/January 2002

My research interests and curiosities are varied and include just about any and allcreative processes, traditional and non-traditional. I am particularly interested in "craft" or "low art" media and processes that have been historically confined to the domestic setting for women and/or children such as clay, fabric, hotglue, etc., and using these processes and materials in new ways and/or combining them with othermaterials to create new definitions and possibilities.

I tend to search for new types of synthesis. Whether it be through understanding relationships among materials and creating meaningful or aesthetic connections by combining  materials and their functions. Other long standing interests that impact my work include media, material and popular cultures and howthese come together to help define things like morality, perception and consciousness.