Red Lodge Clay Center – Short-Term Resident 2026
KC Weldon is an artist and art educator living in Chicago where she teaches sculpture and ceramics at The Chicago High School for the Arts. Her art education started at the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham Alabama where she’s from. She earned her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she graduated with the James Nelson Raymond Fellowship Award. Weldon received her MFA at Kendall College of Art and Design with a full-ride fellowship. Since, she has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artist Residency, and The Interlochen Center for the Arts. Her work has been exhibited in over 30 galleries, institutions, and universities, most recently including: Northeastern Illinois University Fine Arts Center, Blue Line Arts, and GoggleWorks Center for the Arts.
My work explores complex histories, social perceptions, folklore, and my own lived experience of growing up in the American South. Through ceramic sculpture, found object installations, and drawings, I grapple with the socially constructed dichotomies of life in America, such as: wild and domestic, church and state, masculine and feminine. Living in the space between dead and alive, right and wrong, animal and human, my work is empathetic and critical simultaneously. By continuing the history of story-telling through clay, I create non-linear narratives that titillate between beautiful and unsettling. My work tells the stories of animals, land, and humans alike: our struggles, histories, instincts, capacities to destroy one another, and the bonds created between us.