Gina Tibbott

Pronouns: she/her

December 2 – January 17, 2024

Gina Tibbott is a New York City-based artist whose ceramics practice is informed by her years working as a field archeologist. Other materials like metal, fiber, and wood usually degrade, leaving only the barest of traces, but ceramics can survive thousands of years in harsh conditions to be unearthed almost unchanged. Tibbott draws inspiration from the forms and decorative styles of these time-traveling ceramics.

Tibbot earned her MA in anthropology from Temple University and her MFA in ceramics from George Washington University. Her work has been shown at The Clay Studio (Pennsylvania, PA; 2024, 2021), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Philadelphia, PA; 2023), and James May Gallery (Algoma, WI; 2019), among others. She is currently an adjunct instructor at Montclair State University and a faculty member at Greenwich House Pottery.

During her residency, Tibbott will use Gisela Richter’s The Craft of Athenian Pottery published in 1923 as a jumping off point to create new work based on ancient forms. When it was first published, this book was notable in the field of archeology for taking a process-based approach to understanding ancient ceramics. To accomplish this task, Richter, a British-American archeologist and curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, turned to Maude Robinson, GHP’s director from 1911 to 1941, to provide the technical insight necessary for the book. Thus, Tibbott will be collaborating not only with ancient Athenian potters through her project, but also with the Pottery’s first director.