more about our artists

Jeralyn Victoria Mohr

Jeralyn Victoria is a graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art & Design and currently resides in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She spent her childhood in North Dakota where the minimalist landscape, access to nature and sometimes extreme weather influenced her evident love of raw earthy texture and industrious use of unexpected materials.

Whether the surface of the painting has been distressed, angled, cross stitched or woven with upcycled silk, these works support a poetic interior design that embrace imperfection and soulful detail.

Jeralyn’s art honors the idea that the home is simply a larger body…our dwellings generously mirror our inner curiosity, play and need for grounding.

Olivia Jenson

Olivia Jenson is a potter working in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her education includes studying ceramics at the University of Wisconsin - River Falls, as well as earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities titled, “Art, Community, and Wellbeing.”

She has studied at the Curaumilla Art Center in Chile as well as Penland School of Craft in North Carolina. In 2017, she began working with Warren MacKenzie as a studio apprentice and worked in his studio until May of 2020. In spring of 2020, Olivia worked alongside Nick Earl in his space working at the Abnet Farm in the St. Croix Valley of Stillwater, MN. Currently, she is working with Mike Norman as his studio apprentice in St. Paul, MN.

Olivia is most interested in texture and form in her pots. She uses stoneware and porcelain clay bodies fired in high-fire gas reduction kilns as well as occasionally firing in wood kilns, and is most influenced by Japanese, Korean, and English pottery, as well as the “Mingei-sota” aesthetic, throwing pots with a Leach style treadle wheel. She is committed to making approachable, inviting pots that bring beauty into everyday life. 

Leigh Bauer

I'm Leigh, a self-taught potter at the Great River Gallery in St. Paul, MN. My work reflects my vibrant and authentic lifestyle through the use of bright colors and playfulness. I love using my pottery as a canvas for illustrations and designs. If you have any questions or would like to commission a piece, please feel free to contact me.

Jason Kaping (pigs eye pottery)

My aim is to create functional ceramics and tableware to add handmade quality to our lives at my home studio in Western Wisconsin. I also host Minnesota’s highest rated Pottery Classes, Team Building Activities, and Private Pottery Parties in St. Paul, Minnesota at Great River Gallery off West 7th St.