Jennifer Ling Datchuk

Session 4 (2nd week): Wednesday August 4 - Tuesday, August 10

Jennifer Ling Datchuk is a multidisciplinary artist based in San Antonio, Texas. Trained in ceramics, she works with porcelain and other materials often associated with traditional women’s work, such as textiles and hair, to investigate fragility, beauty, femininity, intersectionality, identity, and personal history. Her work is an exploration of her layered identity—as a woman, as a Chinese woman, as an “American,” as a third-culture kid. Datchuk received the 2017 Emerging Voices Award from the American Craft Council and in 2020 was named a United States Artist Fellow in Craft. An Assistant Professor of Art at Texas State University, she holds an MFA in Artisanry from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and a BFA in Crafts from Kent State University.

1] American Flag, 2020, porcelain, fake hair, collected affirmations, 60" x 30" x 2"

2] Exotic AF, 2017, porcelain, blue and white ceramic shards, acrylic, 15” x 9” x 8”

3] Money Honey, 2017, image of 3D printed, slip cast porcelain, blue and white transfers from Jingdezhen, China, blue and white nails by Glaze Nail Lounge, San Antonio, 36” x 48”