Rebecca Schedl

In 2023, Rebecca Schedl went to Penland for the very first time. She sat on the wall on the way to the mess hall, talking to her mom on the phone and watching the clouds pass. They moved across the sky, and in her mind, they were both beautiful in the moment and also a sign that no sky is ever fully free of the chance of rain. When Schedl looks back on her life, she sees the connectedness. She wouldn’t be here without the connection to what came before. She has been poured into the mold that life gave her and little by little changed her shape and the world around her has changed her shape. In this process of connection, Schedl has become more herself. When she looks around, she sees a world of connections. Her work seeks to connect with itself and the world around it, through the connection of clay to clay, clay to hand, and hand to clay. Her work is not completed by fire but by the continued act of touching clay to hand and hand to ceramic.