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Ayumi Horie is a studio potter in the Hudson Valley of New York who has developed a distinctive online community utilizing social networks to support her studio practice.  Horie is making work in earthenware and porcelain that draws inspiration from folk traditions and comics in the U.S. and Japan.

In 2008, she organized Obamaware for Obama’s bid for presidency, the first online ceramic fundraiser of its kind, which raised nearly $11,000. In March of 2011, she helped organize Handmade For Japan, an online art auction to benefit victims of the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that hit northern Japan. In two weeks, they raised almost $76,000 and to date $93,000.

Horie received her MFA from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, her BFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in Alfred, New York, and her BA from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.  She is on the board of directors of the Archie Bray Foundation and has taught many workshops on functional ceramics and the Internet across the U.S. and internationally, including the Archie Bray Foundation, Montana; Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina; Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Tennessee; Greenwich House Pottery, New York; Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Maine; International Ceramic Research Center, Denmark; Northern Clay Center, Minnesota; University of Florida; Louisiana State University; Penn State; Rhode Island School of Design; Rochester Institute of Technology; and Syracuse University, among others.