MaPo Kinnord

MaPo Kinnord (born 1960 in Cleveland, OH) is an artist and educator based in New Orleans, Louisiana.[1]

MaPo Kinnord
Born (1960-09-30) September 30, 1960
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
EducationMassachusetts College of Art, Ohio State University
Known forCeramic, Sculpture

Early life and education

Kinnord grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. She completed her BFA at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, and received her MFA from Ohio State University in Columbus.[1] In 1995 she moved to New Orleans, LA where she met one of her mentors, John T. Scott.[2]

Work

Using ceramic sculptural forms resembling mud huts of Ghana, Kinnord's work is about ancestral memory.[1] She has spent time in Northern Ghana creating a research video on pottery and ceramic architecture.[3][2] Much of her work is inspired by architecture and explores both exteriors and interiors through clay and surface treatment.[4] She has also compared the way she works with clay to jazz, improvisational but with structure.[2]

Part of Kinnord's work as an educator includes art therapy manipulating clay with meditation.[5] She was an instructor at Penland School of Crafts, in North Carolina, Haystack Mountain School of Craft in Maine.[6] Kinnord taught in MassArt in Massachusetts and Berkeley California before moving to New Orleans in 1995 where she became Associate Professor of Art at Xavier University of Louisiana.[7]

Kinnord's work has been exhibited Internationally including at Arthur Roger Gallery, Tulane University, Baltimore Clayworks, Stella Jones Gallery, Swarthmore College, Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans and Imago Mundi.[7]

In 2017 her work was included in an exhibition called Congregation at Antenna Gallery.[8] In 2018 Kinnord's work was included in The Whole Drum Will Sound: Women in Southern Abstraction at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art alongside works by Lynda Benglis, Dusti Bongé, Clyde Connell, Dorothy Hood, Marie Hull, Lin Emery, Margaret Evangeline, Cynthia Brants, Jacqueline Humphries, Valerie Jaudon and Ida Kohlmeyer.[9][10]

References
  1. Donohoe, Victoria. "Her sculptures are shrines to memory MaPo Kinnord-Payton's use of small effigies, photos and symbolic objects achieves a sense of presence". Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  2. MARQUIS, PAMELA (Winter 2017). "Celebration in Clay". New Orleans Homes & Lifestyles. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  3. Contemporary Arts Center. "MaPo Kinnord-Payton". NOLANow. CAC. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  4. Orleans, Creative Alliance of New (6 January 2014), Artists on View -- MaPo Kinnord-Payton, retrieved 17 September 2018
  5. Press Street. "The Contemplative Clay Project: MaPo Kinnord". Press Street. Press Street. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  6. Haystack Gateway, Fall 2013
  7. "10 Years Later – a Black Perspective". Black Art in America. BLACK ART IN AMERICA. LLC. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
  8. "Steven Forster's Party Central: 'Cultural Grid' at Art Center'; 'Congregation' at Antenna Gallery". The Advocate. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  9. "The Whole Drum Will Sound: Women in Southern Abstraction at Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, USA | Terremoto". terremoto.mx. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  10. "10 Art Exhibitions in the U.S. Worth Traveling for This Spring". AFAR Media. Retrieved 17 September 2018.

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