Leandra Urrutia

Assistant Professor

Sculpture/Ceramics

BFA, Southwest Texas State University
MFA, University of Mississippi

Leandra Urrutia specializes in figurative, low-fire ceramics. In addition she is an active, producing member of the Memphis Potter’s Guild. She currently serves on the board of Number: Inc., An Independent Journal of the Arts in Memphis, Tennessee.

In 2005 Urrutia inherited and headed up the Horn Island Experience; a summer workshop that takes place on a remote island in the Gulf of Mexico off the Mississippi coast.

Recent exhibitions include:

Earth and Fire: Works in Clay at the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago.
Trans at the Memphis College of Art’s Gallery on the Street, Descendant at Clayworks, Memphis, TN.
New Faculty Exhibitions at the Memphis College of Art Gallery, Memphis TN.
Space Available at the Butler Street Bazaar, Memphis, TN.
Maleable Mud at the University of Mississippi Gallery, Oxford, MS.
Baby Creation Equation, Cossitt Gallery, Memphis TN.

Her series Seven and the Maiden is included in the collection of Sandford M. and Diane Besser. The book, 500 Figures in Clay: Ceramic Artists Celebrate the Human Form by Veronika Alice Gunter, includes a piece from that series.

lurrutia@mca.edu / 901-272-5127

Leandra Urrutia

Assistant Professor

Sculpture/Ceramics

BFA, Southwest Texas State University MFA, University of Mississippi

BFA, Southwest Texas State University
MFA, University of Mississippi