Mallory Wetherell is a native of South Carolina and currently a Professor of Art and the Head of Ceramics at the University of Nebraska at Kearney (2014-present). She received her BFA in ceramics from the University of South Carolina in 2006 and her Masters of Fine Arts in ceramics from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 2010.

After graduate school, Mallory lived and worked in Philadelphia, teaching ceramic courses at Tyler School of Art and serving as Gallery Coordinator of The Clay Studio, the east coast’s largest non-profit ceramic arts center.  She has twice been a summer artist in residence and Windgate scholar at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT (2013 & 2019) and was a resident artist at Indiana University Southeast with fellow artist Brian Harper (2013).  Mallory was named an Emerging Artist in the field of ceramics by Ceramics Monthly magazine in 2015.  In 2022, while on sabbatical, Mallory was selected to be a P.A.i.R. (Price Artist in Residence) at Mud Mesa Studio in Taos, NM, living and working in the home and studio of artist Ken Price.

Recent exhibitions include GIRL, a solo show at Arch Contemporary Ceramics in Tiverton, Rhode Island, 100 Years, 100 Women, a group show at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, PA, Figuratively Speaking at Companion Gallery in Humboldt, TN, and the 49th Annual Old Church Pottery Show at The Art School in Demarest, NJ. Mallory’s functional work is represented by The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, The Bray Gallery in Helena, MT, and at the Kate Maller Galleries in Denver and Aspen.

In addition to her own work, Mallory engages in collaborative projects, with recent collaborations including artists Richard Notkin, Rebecca Hutchinson, and Matt Ziemke.