Artist Bio
Janis Mars Wunderlich grew up in a large Mormon family with Amish cousins in Northeastern Ohio. Her detailed ceramic sculptures and paintings capture the dualities and complexities of being human, inspired by ancient ceramic story-telling figurines and her Cherokee Folk Artist step-grandfather, Edwin George.
Wunderlich blends animal, plant, and other natural elements in her narrative figures to celebrate nurturing, reciprocity, resilience, and the spiritual connectedness of all things. Her ceramic sculptures and paintings are in distinguished private and museum collections throughout the world, including Taiwan’s Yingge Ceramics Museum and The American Museum of Ceramic Art in CA.
She is the recipient of many awards, including Artist Fellowships from Illinois and Ohio Arts Councils and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation, and is showcased in the documentary film WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS?
Wunderlich is a mother of five grown children and has four grandchildren. Along with her passion to make art, she is also a marathon runner, lap swimmer, bow-hunter, and an associate professor of art at Monmouth College, where she teaches ceramics, creative processes, and art history. She spends much of her time with her husband and best friend Grant on their rural Illinois farm and woodlands.
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Artist Bio
Janis Mars Wunderlich grew up in a large Mormon family with Amish cousins in Northeastern Ohio. Her detailed ceramic sculptures and paintings capture the dualities and complexities of being human, inspired by ancient ceramic story-telling figurines and her Cherokee Folk Artist step-grandfather, Edwin George.
Wunderlich blends animal, plant, and other natural elements in her narrative figures to celebrate nurturing, reciprocity, resilience, and the spiritual connectedness of all things. Her ceramic sculptures and paintings are in distinguished private and museum collections throughout the world, including Taiwan’s Yingge Ceramics Museum and The American Museum of Ceramic Art in CA.
She is the recipient of many awards, including Artist Fellowships from Illinois and Ohio Arts Councils and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation, and is showcased in the documentary film WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS?
Wunderlich is a mother of five grown children and has four grandchildren. Along with her passion to make art, she is also a marathon runner, lap swimmer, bow-hunter, and an associate professor of art at Monmouth College, where she teaches ceramics, creative processes, and art history.She spends much of her time with her husband and best friend Grant on their rural Illinois farm and woodlands.
