Summer Ester Orr (b.1996)
orrsummer@gmail.com
Loch Lomond, CA
Curriculum Vitae
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2025 - Administrative Coordinator at Cobb Mountain Art & Ecology Project | CA
2022 - 24 Studio Technician & Instructor at Paonia Clayworks | Paonia, CO
2022 - 23. Board Member of Elsewhere Studios Artist Residency | Paonia, CO
2021 - 22. Design Associate at Epicenter | Green River, UT
2017 - 21. Gallery Committee Member of The Holland Project | Reno, NV
2017 - 21. Studio Tech & Instructor at The Wedge Ceramics Studio | Reno, NV
2017 - 21 Grant Writer & Instructor at Laika Press Community Press | Reno, NV
2015 - 17 Studio Technician for Ceramics at TMCC | Reno, NV
EDUCATION
2021 Skills Certification in Welding & Fabrication at TMCC Reno, NV
2017 A.S. in Graphic Communications at TMCC Reno, NV
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2025 Studio Sessions via A-B Projects with Julia Schuster
2024 Biannual Anagama Firing at Cobb Mountain Art & Ecology, CA
2023 Sculptural Steel Wire at Yucca Valley Material, Yucca Valley CA
2023 Work Study - Paint, Patterns, and Palimpsests at Penland School of Craft
2022 Work Study - Boxed | Unboxed Workshop at Penland School of Craft
2022 Scholarship Recipient for Wood and Clay Workshop at Anderson Ranch
2022 Merchandise Coordinator at NCECA: Fertile Ground
2022 Annual Noborigama Community Firing at Anderson Ranch
2022 Presenting Artist Assistant at Clay Con West
2021 Work Study - Forged and Bedazzled Workshop at Penland School of Craft
ARTIST RESIDENCIES + AWARDS
2025 New Wave Scholarship Recipient for A-B Projects with Julia Schuster
2022 Utah Division of Arts & Museums, Artist Career Advancement Scholarship UT
2021 Elsewhere Studios Artist Residency Paonia, CO
2021 Summer Residency at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts Edgecomb, ME
2019 Frontier Fellowship Emerging Artist-in-Residence Green River, UT
2019 Nevada Arts Council Youth Arts Grant Awardee Reno, NV
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Twin Win | Outback Projects in Reno, NV
2022 Geomancer | Moab Arts and Recreation Center, UT
2020 Graveyard | Servapool Space at the Holland Project in Reno, NV
2020 Of the Desert | Ferino Distillery Reno NV
2016 Still Water | Never Ender Art Gallery in Reno, NV
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 MORNINGWARE: Breakfast & Brunch Juried Exhibition | Schacht Gallery, NY
2025 All In | The Holland Project, NV
2025 A Light Exists Group Candleholder Exhibition | Lot'sa Chicago, IL
2025 Formed by Fire Group exhibition | Alpha Fired Arts, CA
2025 It’s the Little Things Group Exhibition | the Clay Studio of Missoula, MT
2024 Small Favors Group Exhibition | the Clay Studio in Phillidelphia, PA
2024 Life is Delicious at Curve Line Space Los Angeles, CA
2022 Canyon River Runners Exhibition | John Wesley Powell Museum, UT
2021 Milkweed Group AIR Show | Barkan Gallery ME
2021 Change in Climate: Resilience & Regeneration | the MARC, UT
2021 Cornucopia | Elsewhere Studios, CO
2021 All In Group Exhibition | Holland Project, NV
2021 In the Dark with Friends | Cafe Capello Reno NV
2019 Twofold Anniversary Show | The Golden Jackal Reno NV
2019 All In Group Exhibition | Holland Project, Reno NV