Apero Fine Art Catalogue Artist: Melissa Weiss ‘Shape’ November 2018

Melissa Weiss Biography
Melissa Weiss is originally from NY. She received her BFA in photography in 2000 from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Melissa currently resides in Asheville, NC where she runs a studio housing 23 artists in an 8000 square foot warehouse called SouthSideStudios near the Swannanoa River. She is a full time studio potter and mom. Melissa makes functional high fired pots from clay she digs on her land in the Ozarks Mountains of Arkansas. Melissa is a self taught potter yet has learned from many potters in the Asheville area. Melissa has attended Penland and Arrowmont as a studio assistant and a teacher. Melissa has spent the last 10 years firing wood and gas fueled kilns and experimenting with reduction cooling. Melissa makes all her own clay, glazes and slips and fires them in gas and wood fired reduction kilns to cone 10. All of her pots are made by hand and one of a kind.

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