Isabella Maroon is a contemporary artist/designer interested in how containers operate as anticipators of growth, offering, renewal, and loss. Her contemporary ceramics emphasize the intersection of art and design in the concept of the vessel.
Subjective experience of environment—how light, atmosphere, and surroundings shape our mind-state and influence the way we perceive and imagine the world around us, are brought to bare through meticulous labor and craftsmanship.
Identity development and our emotional connection to color perception are combined in her process of making these one of a kind objects.
Her Vases and Cups series serve as vessels for connection both to ourselves and to the shared biological experience of survival.
Maroon strives to highlight, through contours and crevices, notions specific to ordeals and accidents brought about by difficult circumstances.
Education
- MFA — Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI (2018–2020)
- Study Abroad — The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China (September–November 2016)
- BFA — The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (2013–2018)
Exhibitions
- Forms of Reverence, Trueman Brewery, London, UK (March 12th – 15th 2026)
- The New Guard, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, NY, NY (October 20th 2021 – January 22nd 2022)
- POST, Wasserman Projects, Detroit, MI (May 14th – June 19th 2021)
- Small Favors, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA (March 6th – April 26th 2020)
- Object Block, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI (November 8th – 10th 2019)
- Mater Object Belief, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI (April 26th – 28th 2019)
- Table Works, B-swing Gallery, Minneapolis, MD (March 26th – 30th 2019)
- Tub for Two, Shoe Lake (outdoor installation), Bloomfield Hills, MI (January 10th – April 14th 2019)
- Actual: Materiality, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI (November 10th – 12th 2018)
- Small Favors, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA (April 6th – May 27th 2018)
- Small Living, 190 Fairview, Hudson, NY (March 23rd – April 5th 2018)
- Fall BFA Show, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL (November 13th – December 20th 2017)
- Roomies, Gallery 1922, Chicago, IL (November 1st – November 14th 2017)
- Claydies, Gallery 1922, Chicago, IL (May 3rd – May 18th 2017)
- 6 X 6, Gallery 109, Chicago, IL (August 6th – August 21st 2017)
Publications
- Stroll Sewickley (January 2026)
- Wallpaper* (8th July 2022)
- The Design Edit (3rd November 2021)
- Galerie Magazine (3rd November 2021)
- Design Miami (21st October 2021)
- Carpenters Workshop Gallery (19th October 2021)
Press
- Carpenters Workshop Gallery — Artist Profile
- Eberle Studios — Meet the Artist
- TribLive — Sewickley Artist Opens IM Studio in Leetsdale
Professional Experience
- Studio Owner & Artist — IM Studio, LLC, Leetsdale, PA (2025–Present)
- Studio Artist — Eberle Studios, Pittsburgh, PA (2020–2025)
- Kiln DA — Cranbrook Academy of Art Ceramics, Bloomfield Hills, MI (August 2019 – May 2020)
- Teaching — Soul Studio, West Bloomfield Hills, MI (August 2019 – February 2020)
- Mosaic Instructor — Hadassah Greater Detroit, West Bloomfield Hills, MI (July – August 2019)
- Mosaic Instructor — Green Star Movement, Chicago, IL (March – June 2018)
- Assistant — Steven Haulenbeek, Chicago, IL (October 2017 – April 2018)
- Apprenticeship — Standard Ceramics, Pittsburgh, PA (May – August 2011)
Awards
- Friendship Circle Student Fellowship, West Bloomfield Hills, MI (June – August 2019)
- China Scholarship Council Scholar, Beijing, China (September 2016)