About
I was born and raised in southwest Michigan; I grew up sitting in snowbanks, picking up rocks along Lake Michigan, and playing in the dirt.
In May of 2008 I received my BFA in ceramics & art history from the Kansas City Art Institute. For the last year I worked as an artist-in-residence & studio assistant at Plum Tree Pottery in Farmington Hills, Michigan. I am currently an artist-in-residence at the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, Florida where I am enjoying soda firing and biking around in the sunshine.
contact information:
email> tyraforker [at] gmail.com
phone> (269) 759.9752
In August, Tyra “radish of the smiling pots” left Kansas City. As she boarded the plane a little girl in the plaza began to cry, then in an eerie succession all the cars stopped, the birds and cicadas silenced. The sun blackened along with the vision of all the peoples; they all closed their eyes as they also shed tears. Then everything went to normal. However, nothing was the same, as the planets feel when pluto was no longer a planet.