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Education

BFA Ceramics, California State University Long Beach
MFA Ceramics, University of Nebraska Lincoln

Courses taught at Fresno City College:

• Beginning Ceramics
• Ceramics Sculpture
• Intermediate Ceramics

About

Hiromi Iyoda was born in a small town in Japan. Growing up with a modest background, a sketchbook and coloring pencils were the best toys to play with. She was always creative and inventive to make her own toys. Eventually, Hiromi traveled to the United States to further her education. Hiromi attended multiple residencies such as Red Star studio Kansas City, Niv Art Centre India, Archie Bray Foundation Montana, and Houston Center for contemporary craft, and Iowa Ceramics Center. She is currently a full time ceramic professor at Fresno City College. Hiromi makes figurative and narrative clay sculptures and her work is based mostly on her past and current life experiences.

Recognitions, Awards, Achievements

2022 Director’s Choice Award, Saratoga Clay Art Center, Schuylerville, NY
2021 Honorable Mention, the In Art Gallery
2019 Emergent Artist, Marion art Festival, Marion, IA
2018 Special Merit Award, Clay Houston, Houston, TX
2017 LIAEP Award, Linda Lighton International Artist Exchange Program, Kansas City, MO
2015 Janes Tingey Visiting Artist Fellowship, Student’s choice, Kendall College of Art and Design, Clay Collective, Ox-bow school of art, Saugatuck, MI
2012-2015 Fellowship and Othmar Scholarship, University of Nebraska, NE
2012 Appalachian Center for Craft Workshop scholarship, Smithville, TN
Hixson-Lied Study Scholarship, University of Nebraska, NE
Travel scholarship, Wood Fire Workshop at Flynn Creek Pottery, Comptche, CA
2011 Finalist “57th International Competition of Contemporary Ceramic Art in Faenza”, Faenza, Italy
2010 Travel Scholarship, Spain and France, California State University of Long Beach

https://www.hiromi-iyoda.com/