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Welcome to my art. I am interested in connections between humans and the environment, and environments to memory based on personal experience, and collective recollection. Considering art as an approach to processing the past, I seek to create, through form and color, moments that obscure and reveal the poetic nature of our lives. Moments that serve as touchstones for conference on a foundational level.
Biography: Isabella Maroon is an Artist/Designer who received her BFA from The School of Art Institute of Chicago in 2018 and MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2020. Currently Isabella is based on Leetsdale, Pennsylvania.
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Isabella Maroon is a Pennsylvania-based artist known for creating vibrant, captivating ceramic sculptures. Her work often incorporates fragmented pieces that are reassembled to give them a powerful new meaning.
Key aspects of Isabella Maroon's ceramics:
Artistic process: Maroon's process involves taking sculptures apart—using tools like a hammer or clippers—and repurposing the fragments. She builds upon these foundations by incorporating fragments of previous work and sending them through multiple firings.
Themes: Her pieces explore concepts of movement and nonconformity. She has created both large, abstract pieces that incorporate choice and chance, as well as smaller, representational works that use symbolism and text.
Education: Maroon earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2018 and a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2020.
Location and work: After receiving her MFA, she became a studio artist at Eberle Studios in Pittsburgh, PA. Now, she has opened in 2025 a studio in Leetsdale ,PA .
Education
MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI) September 2018 - May 2020
BFA The School of the Art institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL) August 2013 - January 2018
Exhibitions
The New Guard: Stories from the new World (New York, NY) October 20th 2021 – January 22nd 2022
POST, Wasserman Projects (Detroit, MI) May 14th- June 19th 2021
Small Favors, The Clay Studio (Philadelphia, PA March 6th - April 26th 2020
Object Block, Forum Gallery (Bloomfield Hills, MI) November 8th - 10th 2019
Mater Object Belief, Forum Gallery (Bloomfield Hills, MI) April 26th - 28th 2019
Table Works, B-swing Gallery (Minneapolis, MD) March 26th - 30th 2019
Tub for Two, Shoe Lake (outdoor installation) (Bloomfield Hills, MI) January 10th - April 14th 2019
Actual: Materiality, Forum Gallery (Bloomfield Hills, MI) November 10th - 12th 2018
Small Favors, The Clay Studio (Philadelphia, PA) April 6th - May 27th 2018
Small Living, 190 Fairview (Hudson, NY) March 23rd - April 5th 2018
Fall BFA Show, Sullivan Galleries (Chicago, IL) November 13th - December 20th 2017
Roomies, Gallery 1922 (Chicago, IL) November 1st - November 11th 2017
Claydies, Gallery 1922 (Chicago, IL) May 3rd - May 14th 2017
6 X 6, gallery 109 (Chicago, IL) August 6th - August 17th 2017
Publications
Wallpaper* 8th July 2022
https://www.wallpaper.com/design/new-guard-stories-from-the-new-world-exhibition-carpenters-workshop-gallery
The Design Edit 3rd November 2021
https://thedesignedit.com/exhibitions/the-new-guard-stories-from-the-new-world/
Galerie Magazine 3rd November 2021
https://galeriemagazine.com/new-york-art-and-design-exhibitions-fall-2021/
Design Miami 21st October 2021 https://shop.designmiami.com/blogs/news/the-new-guard-stories-from-the-new-world
Carpenters Workshop Gallery 19th October 2021
https://carpentersworkshopgallery.com/artists/isabella-maroon/
Professional Experience
Cranbrook Academy of Art Ceramics - Kiln DA (Bloomfield Hills, MI) August 2019 - May 2020
Soul Studio – Teaching (West Bloomfield Hills, MI) August 2019 - February 2020
Hadassah Greater Detroit – Mosaic instructor (West Bloomfield Hills, MI) July - August 2019
Steven Haulenbeek - Assistant (Chicago, IL) October 2017 - April 2018
Green Star Movement - Volunteer (Chicago, IL) March - June 2018
Standard Ceramics - Apprenticeship (Pittsburgh, PA) May - August 2011
Awards
Friendship Circle Student Fellowship (West Bloomfield Hills, MI) June – August 2019