Donte K. Hayes

{Retail Value $2800}

Sunken, 2021

Ceramic, Black Clay Body, Stoneware

3.5 x 6.25 x 5.5 inches

Courtesy of the artist

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Donte K. Hayes graduated summa cum laude from Kennesaw State University with a BFA in Ceramics and Printmaking with an Art History minor. Donte received his MA and MFA with honors from the University of Iowa and is the 2017 recipient of the University of Iowa Arts Fellowship. Donte has been awarded residencies at MacDowell, Bemis Center, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland School of Crafts, Township 10, Watershed, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Wellin Museum, Newark Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Stanley Museum of Art, Crocker Art Museum, Gibbes Museum of Art and the Des Moines Art Center among others. Donté is a recipient of a 2023 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist fellowship. In 2022 he was awarded a prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award. He is also a 2019 Ceramics Monthly Magazine Emerging Artists and Artaxis Fellow. Donte K. Hayes is represented by Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami, Florida

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