SESSION 2 - June 15–21

Natalia Arbelaez is a Colombian American artist born and raised in Miami, Florida to immigrant parents. She received her BFA from FIU and her MFA from OSU. Her work has been exhibited internationally, in museums, galleries, and included in various collections, such as the Everson Museum, New York; Museum of Art and Design, New York; Fuller Craft Museum, Massachusetts; The ICA Miami; and the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada. She was a 2018-19 resident artist in the Ceramics Program at Harvard University, where she researched pre-Columbian art and histories. In 2019-2020, Arbelaez was an artist-in-residence at MAD in New York City, where she researched the work of historical and influential women ceramicists of color and continued this research as a 2021 and 2023 Visiting Artist at the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, California. She joined the School of Art + Art History + Design as Assistant Professor in Ceramics in the fall of 2024 after completing a residency at the MenLo Studio in Jingdezhen, China, where she spent the summer researching the city's rich ceramic history and industry.

Natalia Arbelaez, Culebra Portal, 2022, red clay, video, dimensions variable