Christina Bertoni is an artist working in ceramics, painting, sculpture, and installation. She has taught at The Rhode Island School of Design, in Providence, RI since 1977, retiring in 2014 as professor emerita. At RISD she taught 3D design/spatial dynamics, graduate seminars, graduate thesis studios in industrial design, as well as courses in the sacred, and in time-keeping systems. She has taught workshops at Anderson Ranch Art Center in Colorado, The Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine, and given lectures at many art colleges and art centers. She received B.F.A. in painting from the University of Michigan and an M.F.A in ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art, where she studied with Richard DeVore. She has received two NEA Fellowships in Ceramics, a RISCA fellowship in Crafts. Her work has been shown internationally, and is the collections of such museums as the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the LACMA in Los Angeles, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, as well as in many other museums and private collections. Her work has been featured in magazines and newspapers around the country and in the Netherlands. She served in The PeaceCorps 1968-1970 in Botswana, Africa. She is married to Jan Holcomb, a ceramic artist.
Christina Bertoni
Studios
Eastman
Christina Bertoni worked in the Eastman studio.
Thanks to the generous support of MacDowell Fellow and board member Louise Eastman, this century-old farm building was reinvented as a modern, energy efficient live and workspace for visual artists. Originally built in 1915 to house a forge and provide storage when the residency program was expanding, this small barn was simply converted for…