Summer Ester Orr is a Honduran-American creative practitioner, ceramicist, sculpture-maker and educator living in rural Colorado. Orr is active in the southwest (NV, UT, CO) and in various rural arts organizations such as Epicenter, Elsewhere Studios, Pollinate Paonia and Paonia Clayworks. She frequently organizes workshops and classes to further arts education outside of academia. Alongside design and sculptural work, Orr makes functional pottery using local resources and fires them wherever there is access to a kiln. She is an active bird-watcher, frog-catcher, cake-maker, farmer and observer of the natural world.
For commission and business inquiry email orrsummer@gmail.com.
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Current Projects
01.05.24 - Designed cover for the publication The Last Straw: Issue 75. Preorder here!
01.04.24 - Teaching a beginner to intermediate pottery class featuring lid making and lidded forms at Paonia Clayworks.
11.15.23 - Epicenters’ long awaited publication Why This Place? is available for purchase! I helped design the cover and other elements for this publication in 2022-23.
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.”
08.15.22 Logo and branding work for the Aspen Art Museum RAC resource guide is published online. The Rural Arts Connect (RAC) project connects arts & cultural organizations in rural geographies across Colorado’s Western Slope to research art’s role in catalyzing connectivity and to increase both arts education and capacity among RAC partners to serve their various communities and audiences more effectively.
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