08/19/2026
And re-introducing our continuing second-year long-term residents - Casey Burton was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago. She received a BFA in ceramics from the University of Iowa in 2019 and continued her exploration with clay at the University of Kansas as a post-baccalaureate student. In 2020, Casey moved to Northern California, where she was an artist-in-residence at Cobb Mountain Art & Ecology Project. These two years were formative in deepening her connection to the land and cultivating a desire to engage with it more intentionally. In 2024, she received her MFA from Penn State University. There she was honored with the Kiki Smith Fellowship at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and the Creative Achievement Award. After graduate school, Casey taught Transitions and Ceramics courses as an adjunct professor at Saint Xavier University and worked in floriculture at Garfield Conservatory in Chicago, IL.
Casey’s work weaves together care, embodied experience, and the tension between the eternal and the ephemeral. Through working with earth matter, she creates sculptures and installations that explore healing and the complexities of identity. This physical dialogue becomes a grounding ritual—an exploration of tenderness, endurance, and self-preservation. By shaping materials with her body, she mourns past selves and memories while celebrating the rewilding of self, an act of renewal.
