Jaeger is a potter living and working in Helena, MT. She received a BA in English Literaturefrom Harvard and her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. She has been nationally recognized forher work since the mid 1980’s. Jaeger works with both porcelain and stoneware, creating pots foruse. Meticulously crafted, her simpleforms become vehicles for her complex surfaces. Using two glazes of contrasting color, Jaeger createscomplex patterns that envelope her pots.
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In writing about her work, Jaeger states, “I am obsessedwith making pots that convey a sense of volume, that speak of the capacity tocontain and also offer their contents, that express their potential to beuseful, generous, and, in a way, luxurious. I choose to work with porcelain, thought to be the most precious of clays, but which is also the mostdurable. Its whiteness and translucency lend a luminous depth to theglazed surfaces. I use saturated colors and often layer glazes, usually inpatterns that repeat themselves loosely and with variation as they wrapthemselves like skins around the volumes of the pots”.
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