Artist Bio

Ginny Sims creates functional and sculptural objects that are highly narrative. For inspiration, she looks to different moments in ceramic history, and incorporates the cultural information she finds with present day social and political experiences. 

The history of pottery in the West is divided between industrial capitalism and folk craft traditions, and its objects are more intimately involved with the body than any other medium – both in terms of its use and creation. It has the ability to bring into dialogue aspects of the capitalist system, the body and domesticity, and social justice in a palpable, straightforward way that other mediums cannot. Pottery is a reflective, invisible, critical and, for millennia, necessary material object of culture whose very existence is testament to the human being in their environment.

Ginny Sims was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas and now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Ginny apprenticed to Mike Dodd in Somerset, England and has worked at potteries in Italy and Scotland. She holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota. In addition to being a working artist and mom, Ginny also teaches ceramics and art history at Minneapolis College.