Originally from Maine, Ayumi Horie received her BA from Mount Holyoke College, her BFA from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and her MFA from the University of Washington in Seattle. She is on the board of directors of the Archie Bray Foundation in Montana and has taught many workshops on functional ceramics and the internet across the U.S. and internationally, including the Archie Bray Foundation, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Greenwich House Pottery, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, International Ceramic Research Center in Denmark, Northern Clay Center, Penland, University of Florida, LSU, Penn State, RISD, RIT, and Syracuse University, among others. Ayumi lives in the Hudson Valley of New York, making work in earthenware and porcelain and drawing from folk traditions and comics in the U.S. and Japan.
