Ruth Moffatt is a ceramic artist and sculptor living in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. She creates both functional stoneware pottery that explores botanical elements of the coastal landscape, as well as ceramic figurative sculptures that blend humans, animals, insects, and plants and explore their relationship with each other. Her practice balances daily hands-on clay work with ongoing experimentation in form and surface. The harsh and equally beautiful coastal ecosystem of the Outer Banks serves as inspiration for much of her work, provoking contemplation about fragility and resilience, and our place in the natural world. 

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EDUCATION

UNC Chapel Hill, BFA in Studio Art

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RESIDENCIES

2023
Ceramic Artist Residency, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences

2022

Ceramic Artist Residency, Penland School of Craft

2020-2023

Long-Term Resident Artist at Kinnakeet Clay, Avon, NC

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ASSISTANTSHIPS

2024

Penland School of Craft, Workshop Studio Assistant to Lindsay Pichaske

2020-2023

Studio Assistant, Kinnakeet Clay, Avon, NC

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EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS

2020

"This Was the Place"

Allcott Undergraduate Gallery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2019
"Present"

Allcott Undergraduate Gallery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2018
"To the Field of Stars"

Allcott Undergraduate Gallery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill