Calli Pirner

Calli Pirner is a naturalist, ceramicist, and mixed media artist with an interest in the relationship between the individual and the environment. She incorporates a variety of foraged items in her art, including plants, mushrooms, and locally collected clays and minerals. Found objects inform and shape the texture of the art. She currently resides in Lawrence, Kansas and is an active member of the Kaw Valley Mycological Society. Growing up partially in rural Kansas with minimal supervision and a shop full of farm equipment, Calli explored the delicate relationship between fire and the environment - through shared experiments with her cousins and a blowtorch. Her most recent work incorporates mud dauber wasp nests, featured in the juried show “An Ode to Eastern Redcedar”. Her recent achievements include completing a Post-Bacculareate program at the University of Kansas Department of Visual Art and being voted to the board for the Kaw Valley Mycological Society.