Draft:Jocelyn Braxton Armstrong

Jocelyn Braxton Armstrong is a ceramic artist based in Bridgeport, CT. Her work, which focuses on sculpture and vessel forms, have won numerous awards including the Emerging Artist Award from American Style Magazine in 2008 and First Prize in Sculpture during the Annual Art of the Northeast USA Exhibition at the Silvermine Guild Arts Center in 2006 and 2008.

Jocelyn Braxton Armstrong holds a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and she is currently an Adjunct Professor of Ceramics at Manhatanville College.

Awards, Grants & Honors

 * 2003 - Selected Winner The Big Show, Westport Arts Center
 * 2005 - Second Prize: Sculpture Spectrum, New Canaan Society for the Arts
 * 2005 - Juried Artist Member of Silvermine Guild of Artists
 * 2006 - The Mollie and Albert Jacobsen Award for Sculpture, 57th Annual Art of the Northeast
 * 2007 - Selected Emerging Artist of 2007, Ceramics Monthly
 * 2008 - Second Prize, The Paradox of Water, Westport Arts Center
 * 2008 - Emerging Artists: 10 Talents Turning Heads, American Style
 * 2008 - Carol Eisner Award for Best Sculpture, 59th Annual Art of the Northeast
 * 2008 - Artist Fellowship Grant, CT Commission on Culture & Tourism