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First careers: Mom and Professional Dancer!

Earliest Dreams & Creative Pursuit: A Broadway Musical Theater Life in New York City

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Cara Jean discovered Clay Love in 2007 after her Dance career had ended and her beautiful daughter Heather had left home. At Greenwich House Pottery in classes with Peter Lane, he nurtured her new language in clay, encouraged personal style and emphasized the discipline and importance of technical practice - so similar to the need for discipline, focus and practice in Dance. Working with clay became her new Dance - creating movement in stillness as motif.

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​Cara Jean’s works were recently shown in NYC "PITH - A Special Exhibition" at Roll & Hill, an Architecture & Lighting Design Showroom in Tribeca, NY - An invitational to 6 ceramic artists in May 2025. The work is currently available on the Roll & Hill website.  

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Recent Collection Exhibitions include:

The International Museum of Dinnerware Design - "PICNIC", "BUTTER", "BREAKFAST" & "ENTOMOPHAGY".  A 3-piece porcelain hand painted breakfast serving set "SUNSHINE & SUGAR" is now a part of the IMoDD Museum's Permanent Collection.

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Shows & Exhibitions: Numerous Tokyo-NYC Friendship Association Ceramic Competitions in NYC, The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Gallery, The Fountain Square Clay Center Gallery, Second Story Studio, B3 Gallery, Pop-up Markets at Newfield's (Previously known as the Indianapolis Museum of Art), the Casa de Costa Gallery, and the Jane Hartsook Gallery of Greenwich House Pottery. 

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Cara Jean’s clay loves are wheel thrown, hand painted, dipped & splashed - created one piece at a time, truly #handmadewithlove, and happily decorate the windows and tables of family and friends all over the world.

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Cara Jean has an M.F.A. from Goddard College – Thesis: In depth Analysis of the Vaganova Russian Ballet Teaching Syllabus while working with a small regional ballet company as Performer, Teacher and Choreographer;

And B.A. in Dance from Butler University.

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