JILL FOOTE-HUTTON
Instructor of Art/Department Chair
East Central College
Union, Missouri

Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics, May 2003
The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculputure, 1994
Webster University, St. Louis, MO

email: footehut@eastcentral.edu

artitst statement
Current CV

Jill Foote-Hutton finished her MFA in Ceramics under the tutelage of Ron Dale at The University of Mississippi in 2003, after earning her BFA from Webster University in St. Louis, MO in sculpture. While in graduate school she was a Studio Assistant at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine and Santa Fe Clay in New Mexico. Jill was the recipient of the 2003 Graduate Student Achievement Award at The University of Mississippi. She also was awarded a Yoknapatawpha Arts Council Grant, a Director’s Recognition Award from the Period Gallery in Omaha, NE and has been published in Ceramics Monthly. Her professional affiliations include College Art Association, Foundations in Art: Theory and Education and National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts.  

Philanthropy is a large part of her work as an artist and she annually coordinates an Empty Bowls Luncheon in her region, creating bowls with her students to serve patrons a modest meal and raise funds for and awareness of hunger issues in America. She has a national exhibition record and is currently the Chair of the Art Department at East Central College in Union, MO and lead a topical discussion group on issues concerning contemporary emergent ceramic sculptors at the National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts in March 2006. Her most recent installation was December 2005 at the Green Door Gallery in Kansas City, MO featuring her unique puppets and figurines touted as, “…visually interesting, amusing and engaging; they [strike] the perfect balance between whimsy and craft,” Ray T. Barker.