Leandra Urrutia is a resident artist under the 2025 National Endowment of The Arts (NEA) Our Town grant awarded to Habitable Spaces to help further the development of arts and culture in the city of Kingsbury.

Urrutia will be hosting two workshops over the duration of her residency.

Leandra’s Artist Statement

Leandra Urrutia is an object maker and storyteller born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. She is known for ceramic sculpture that explores the complexities of mental and physical incongruencies related to aging, injury, injustice, fortitude, and perceptions of fate. Her Mexican American heritage, Catholic upbringing, interest in aggressive sports, and visits to China continue to infuse her ceramic and mixed media compositions with striking, unorthodox influences through a distinctly woman-centered lens.
Her recent honors include a Windgate Artist-in-Residence Award from the Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art in Kennesaw, Georgia, and a McKnight Residency Award from the Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Lark Book Series 500 Figures in Clay and 500 Ceramic Sculptures includes examples of her sculpture. Urrutia is a co-founding member of Studio Nong: An International Sculpture Collective and Residency Program that originated in Nanning, Guangxi Province, China, and of TETRA, a collective of four artist-educators sharing their passion and techniques for working with clay with artists, students, and other like-minded community members.
Urrutia teaches ceramics at Texas A&M University, The Island University in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Keep Up With Leandra

Instagram– https://www.instagram.com/leandraurrutia/?hl=en

Website– http://www.leandraurrutia.com