About Mackenzie

Mackenzie Serwa (b. 1998) was raised in the southwest suburbs of Minnesota. In high school she started working with clay and quickly found herself surrounded a the tight knit community of potters, a group of ceramicists who had been making in the area for over five decades in the St. Croix valley. After finding glass in college, her interest in materiality and desire to integrate the connections she’d experienced in the ceramics community grew.

The influence of connections with friends, family, and community she surrounded herself with growing up become interwoven with her desire to make. Mackenzie believes that in its raw form, the various qualities of glass reflect emotional nuances of the human experience. She believes the malleability, transparency, and liveliness of the material can act a tool to explore how our relationships engage together. In her current work, Mackenzie utilizes performance; not as an act of presenting herself as a part of the piece, but as a means to utilize process, video, and molten glass to explore the dialogue between personal or intimate relationships and the ways in which we choose to express and address emotion. 

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