Summer Ester Orr is a Honduran-American ceramicist, object-maker, farmer and educator living in rural California. They are currently a resident artist and administrative coordinator at Cobb Mountain Art & Ecology Project. Orr is an active bird-watcher, frog-catcher, cake-maker, gardener and observer of the natural world.
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Current
5.3 - 6.14 MORNINGWARE: Breakfast & Brunch
National Juried Exhibition in the Schacht Gallery
2.3 - 3.28 A Light Exists
Group Candleholder Exhibition at Lot'sa Chicago, IL
3.18.25 - Formed by Fire
Group exhibition at Alpha Fired Arts, CA
2.7.25 - 3.1.25 - It’s the Little Things
Group Exhibition at the Clay Studio of Missoula, MT
12.14.24 - “world famous” Hi Dez Holiday Market
Craft market in Reno, NV
10.01.24 - AIR at Cobb Mountain Art & Ecology Project in
Loch Lomond, CA
04.11.24 - 06.2.24 Group Exhibition Small Favors at the Clay Studio in Phillidelphia, PA
03.25.24 - 05.11.24 - Life is Delicious at Curve Line Space
Los Angeles, CA
01.05.24 - Designed cover for the publication The Last Straw: Issue 75. Preorder here!
01.04.24 - Beginner to intermediate pottery class featuring lid making and lidded forms at Paonia Clayworks !
Paonia, CO
11.15.23 - Epicenters’ long awaited publication Why This Place? is available for purchase! Designed the cover and other elements for this publication in 2022-23 during a year long role as a designer for Epicenter in Green River, Utah.
08.01.23 - Pearl Baker Park featured in Landscape Architecture Magazine
01.10.23 - Joined Paonia Clayworks as Studio Technician
09.01.22 Joined the Board of Elsewhere Studios - “Elsewhere is an eclectic, imaginative space that values exploration and experimentation. We provide a unique and fertile environment that nurtures artists with focused time and space and facilitates intentional community engagement. We are committed to generating accessible, equitable, and restorative creative experiences in the North Fork Valley.”
06.11.22 Geomancer on Exhibit for the month of June | Moab Arts & Recreation Center
Previous Projects
Pearl Baker Park / Soft Opening - 07.20.22
Join Epicenter for a soft opening of the Canal Commons park project!
Winter Paper-making @ the MARC - Jan 29, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Teaching a public workshop for utilizing recycled materials in paper-making at the Moab Arts and Recreation Center . Limited spots open ~
Why This Place? - “A publication exploring the connections between our architecture and design work, artist residency, and economic development initiatives that we have nurtured over the past ten years. Essays, interviews, poetry, reading lists, itineraries, illustrations, and other content will concurrently hold a mirror up to our work and attempt to answer some of our most frequently asked questions.”
Feast while you still can - Illustrations and observations about climate apocalypse and windscreen phenomenon. Created with a xerox machine and ink pen while in residency at Elsewhere Studios in Paonia, CO in late summer of 2021.
Seed pods, tulips - Ceramics made in residency at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, in exploration of the shape of flowers and functional natural forms.
Photo by Simon Klein