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HOLIDAY SALE UNTIL DEC. 23rd!
12oz Classic Bodanna Mug
Great quality mug, ready to be enjoyed this fall and winter.
Fun Fact:
When I was an apprentice many years ago, I created a bunch of these in a few other colors. This is the only one made with ths color.
Each piece is created freehand with thought, love, care, happiness, positivity and great quality, no matter the size.
Each piece is unique.
June 24,
I love my purchase, I now have my favorite forever mug and a beautiful yellow vase.
Sept. 24
Look how beautiful it looks! I put it in my office area near my husband's 9/11 recognition award. Thank you so much, very talented, these types of pots are very popular here in Arizona, people here absolutely love them."
Oct. 1
Mi segunda tazon para tomar mi cafecito por la mananita! Me encanta!
I am staying warm this winter!
Lovely glaze on this mug. I will definitely be coming back.
RoPé
Ceramic Artist
Return Policy:
All works are final sale, unless the item arrives damaged. Kindly email with any concerns or questions, you will get a response within 48 hours.
Food Safe:
All works are food safe unless mentioned otherwise in the description for a particular product. "Make sure to read".
About RoPé:
An LGBTQ Artist who's main focus is in Ceramic art.
One of 7 children born and raised in NYC from Puerto Rican parents in the El Barrio section of Manhattan.
As a child art has always been a passion and an escape, it saved me.
For 20 years I've been committed to creating with clay, my heart lies in surfaces of functional / non-functional, and stylized sculptures.
Clay Story:
In 2004 RoPé participated in a full-time 2 year apprenticeship program at Bodanna Studio and Gallery in the east village (NYC, closed 2008).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSIBd6IT0yw&t=76s
It was the place where the basics and much more having to do with clay was learned; it was the greatest job ever.
Awarded the Analdo Duran scholarship 10-12 month's into the program which afforded her to go to Penland School of Arts and Crafts in North Carolina: where she worked closely with "Chuck Hindes and Ron Myers".
It was the place she realized that art didn't have to be created perfectly.
In 2007 she graduated from the program, and participated in her first group show in Soho NYC.
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SHOWCASES:
* Bronx Art Space: Beasts Like Me (Feminism and Fantasy 10.2020), curated by Deborah Yasinsky)
* El Barrio's Art Space P.S.109 (Virtual: 11.2020 Response to G.B.V./ curated by Jasmine R. Castillo)
* Virtual Art Gallery B.F.A. Thesis, Lehman college (6.2020)
* El Barrio's Art Space P.S.109 NYC (11.2019 Response to G.B.V. curated by Jasmine R. Castillo)
* Japan Society Exhibition NYC (responding to contemporary clay 1.2007)
* Bodanna Studio and Gallery SoHo NYC / My Journey Through Form and Texture (Apprentice Graduation show 2007).
EDUCATION:
B.F.A. Jan. 2020 (ceramics)
A.A.S. June 2017 (sculpting)