Biography

Jessica Knapp was born and raised near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She received a Bachelors of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Arts from Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA, followed by a year of post-baccalaureate study at Virginia Commonwealth University. She received her Masters of Fine Arts degree in ceramics at the University of Colorado at Boulder in December 2003. From 2004 to 2006, she was a volunteer studio technician and artist in residence at San Diego State University.  She is currently working at the Ceramic Center Berlin, funded by a German Chancellor Scholarship awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Knapp has shown her work in several regional, national and international exhibitions, including: Reflections:Solo Farewell Exhibition at the Ceramic Center Berlin, 2007; San Diego Design: New Work from Allied Craftsmen at the Oceanside Museum of Art, 2006; Collaborative, Flor Y Canto Gallery, San Diego State University, 2005; It’s All About Love, Wichita State University, 2005; Allied Craftsmen group show, University of California, San Diego, 2004; Group Show, NCECA, Indianapolis, IN, 2004; What Made You Start Again? MFA Graduate Exhibition, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2003; Priceless Graduate Student Exhibition, Dairy Center; Boulder, CO, 2003; Juried Exhibition, and CU at Spark,  Spark Gallery; Denver CO 2002, 2003; Colorado Clay 2002, at the Foothills Art Center in Golden, CO ; 2002 Synapse, Galeria Corriente Alterna, Lima, Peru; the June Juried Exhibition, Shockoe Bottom Arts Center; Richmond, VA, 2001; and the National Crafts ‘99 Exhibition, Lancaster Museum of Art; Lancaster, PA.