Misty Gamble 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.

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

Misty’s Artist Statement

California transplanted feminist vegan living deep in cattle country on the High Plains of Texas, Gamble creates life-size ceramic figurative sculptures and installations of multiple ceramic cast fragments, focusing attention on issues surrounding ecofeminism. Her current work sits at the intersection of feminism and environmentalism and looks to the relationship between human animals and non-human animals. She is currently looking at the overlap of feminist and vegan critical theory that discusses consumptive culture, and objectification in language and “the absent referent” in literature. Her work is inspired by research from The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J Adams, which has become the classic articulation of the hidden connections between meat eating and patriarchy, vegetarianism and feminism.
Gamble is the Founder of Studio Nong: International Sculpture Collective and Residency Program which travels to China and the US to accomplish residencies that focus on clay figurative sculpture. Misty is also the founder of TETRA: Women of Ceramics at the Texas A&M System, a partnership of four contemporary ceramic artist/educators who are dedicated to
the pursuit of creative exchange and public outreach through exhibitions, symposiums and workshops.
Misty is the recipient of a number of awards, grants and fellowships from the National Conference for the Education of Ceramic Arts, the Ellice T. Johnston Foundation, Ruth Chenven Foundation, Martin Wong Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, Windgate Foundation, Howard Kottler Fellowship, Byrdcliffe Fellowship, Ansley Park Fellowship, Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist Award, Lighton International Artists’ Exchange Program Grants, multiple development grants from the Kansas City Art Institute and the Texas A&M system.
She has been a visiting artist at over 40 schools and art institutions and taught numerous workshops throughout the country and abroad. Misty has been awarded over 20 long-term and short-term residencies and fellowships and exhibits her work both nationally and internationally.
Misty received her M.F.A. from San Francisco State University in 2007. She was a full time Assistant Professor at the Kansas City Art Institute for nearly a decade and has taught throughout Italy. Currently, she is 3D Area Head, Associate Professor of Art and the Steven Mayes Endowed Professor of Visual Arts at West Texas A&M University.

Keep Up With Misty

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

Website– http://mistygamble.com