Description

Born in Boston, Massachusetts Eileen Braun has lived and worked in Atlanta Georgia since 2004. Her unique visual arts voice was developed primarily through intensive exploration and discovery in her home studio. Ms. Braun notes that “It is exciting when a materials boundaries are an unknown. Unsupervised in my studio I am free to experiment and push my materials, then use my skills of observation to repeat the resulting effects”.

Ms Braun received a BA in Sculpture and Art Education from Indiana University her broad professional experience includes Executive Director for Croton Cortlandt Center for the Arts in New York, Art Educator (in Cook County Illinois) and Manager at Spertus Museum in Chicago. She is nationally recognized for her ceramic sculpture.

Her work has appeared in numerous private and corporate exhibitions including the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (LA), San Angelo Museum of Art (TX), MESA Contemporary Arts Museum (AZ), Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (TX), American Museum of Ceramic Art (CA), and Museum of Fine Arts Boston (MA). In 2014 and 2015 she received the NICHE Award. Her teapots are in the Kamm, Sara and Bill Morgan and Arthur Goldberg collections as well as featured in Lark Books 500 Teapots II.  She has participated in two Hartsfield- Jackson International Airport exhibitions Ceramix: Georgia’s Creative Claymakers (2015-16) E-Merge: Contemporary Atlanta Artists (2013-14), and Georgia Artists Selecting Artists (2013) MOCA GA.  Ms Braun is a Hambidge Fellow, Ambassador for North Central Illinois College- Self Employment in the Arts program, as well as a lifelong mentor in the arts.