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Leah Pollock is in her second year as Full-Time Ceramics Faculty, Studio Technician and GA Manager. She brings with her over a decade of arts management experience, including two years managing the SculX Department here at UARK.

Leah Pollock is a ceramic artist, sculptor, and educator with over 17 years of national and international show experience. She creates large-scale sculptural vessels, ceramic tile murals, and small batch soda-fired porcelain domestic pottery for homes, design firms, architects, and the design trade.
Her professional experience spans arts management, project leadership, education, consulting, and fine art practice. She has taught ceramics and art courses for over a decade at institutions including the University of Missouri, City College of San Francisco, California College of the Arts, and Laney College. She has also led ceramics programs for nonprofits, colleges, summer camps, and community art centers.

As Operations Manager and Board Member of The Potters’ Studio in Berkeley, California, she helped guide the organization’s nonprofit transition to secure longevity for the 500 student and member base, supported a major studio expansion, and launched scholarship programs that increased access to ceramics education.

Based in Bella Vista, Arkansas, Pollock continues her studio practice while serving as a full-time faculty at UARK. Her approach to teaching is rooted in respect for the body as our main tool, understanding and applying Flow Theory in the classroom and utilizing Japanese throwing techniques.

Photo credit
@kes_efs images 1, 2
@arnofrugier image 4
@katieswanarts image 8

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Wood firing day 2 was a success! Today we wait and tomorrow we see if all the hard work paid off.

I’m so thankful to @studio_leahpollock for bringing me along for the ride and to @zachtate_artist for hosting and teaching us the ways of the wood fired kiln.

I’ve learned so much in the process and I can’t wait to see the work unloading tomorrow to get all the data and feedback from the pots to catalogue for the next time I get the opportunity to fire! 🔥

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Wood firing day 1 ~
Loaded up the kiln and got it going for the night 🔥

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✨ The 2026 Women of the Ozarks Digital Collective ✨

We hope you’ve enjoyed getting to know these incredible 12 artists through our weekly spotlights!

This collective is filled with immense talent, thoughtful creativity, and passion-driven work that is enriching communities throughout the Ozarks. It has been an honor to share their stories and works with you.

If you missed any of our featured artists, we encourage you to scroll through our feed or visit our story highlights to discover this remarkable group of creative voices.

Last but certainly not least, a huge thank you another amazing creative, @scotti_moody_media, for generously lending her talents to Women of the Ozarks by capturing these beautiful headshots. We are so grateful for your partnership!

Artists left to right, starting from the top:

Amy Rimmer | @amy.paints  Angela G. Sammer | @agsammerprints  Anna Stroud | @_.butterfly._.flower._  Beth Bobbitt | @bmbobbitt  Katherine Lashley | @lashleykatherine  Kylie Robinson | @kyrobinson_art  Laura Ramirez | @pattern_etch  Lauren Leonard | @ozark_soundscapes  Leah Pollock | @studio_leahpollock  Molly Martin | @mol__martin  Rachel Grace Borntrager | @rachelborntragerart  Rainy Bray-Hopwood | @ray_hopwood

#womenoftheozarks #arkansasartist #ozarklife #arkansasart #arkansascreative

Amy Rimmer | @amy.paints

Amy is a Fayetteville, Arkansas-based artist whose creative journey began at age 12, when she won a blue ribbon for a Warhol-inspired pastel. After initially studying art at Bethany College, she shifted paths to nursing during a family health crisis, earning a BSN and working as a pediatric nurse for eight years.
In 2017, Amy returned to painting, launching her first solo show, Joy, in Connecticut. Since then, her work has been exhibited across Northwest Arkansas and at events like The Smoky Hill River Festival in Salina, Kansas. In 2023, she was featured in the Assembly Biennial Art and Fashion Show and was the resident artist at The Apollo on Emma.
Her national recognition grew with her 2024 Superfine Art Fair debut in NYC, where FAD magazine named her an “artist to watch.” She has also been featured in The World of Interiors, House and Gardens

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New Portrait and art documentation for @studio_leahpollock. Always grateful to be working in the gallery at @mixd.gallery 🙌

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What an incredible evening. Thank you to everyone who joined us for our July Creative Connections! ✨

We’re so grateful to everyone who came out to connect, ask thoughtful questions, and invest in our local creative community.

A special thank you to our wonderful panelists from @ozartnwa —Bob Jones, Payton Wiedner, and Kellen Scott—for generously sharing your time, knowledge, and insights. We’re also deeply grateful to OZ Art NWA for sponsoring this event and helping make the evening possible.

Thank you as well to the team at @21cbentonville for hosting us and creating such a welcoming space for conversation and connection.

We hope you left feeling inspired, encouraged, and a little more connected to the incredible arts community we have here in Northwest Arkansas.

✨ Save the date! Our next Creative Connections will be held on **Wednesday, September 9** at Moxy in Fayetteville. We will can’t wait to see you there!

#womenoftheozarks #creativeconnections #northwestarkansas #arkansasartists

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Round 2 of the slip dunk I participated in, 2026 Summer at UofA during @studio_leahpollocks class.
This somatic performance is very meditative as it removes some of your sense and heightens others. I stayed there with no vision no hearing for 40+ minutes allowing the clay around my face to harden and forcing deep thought and reflection. 🧘‍♂️

This is a classic clay exercise started by Jim Milchart. One I hope to revisit many many times more.

Thanks to @katie__long for leading this experience for the class this time 🎉🐈‍⬛

#slipcasting #ceramics #meditativeart #somaticexperiencing #performanceart

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Leah Pollock | Follow Along

We hope you’ve enjoyed following along this week with our featured Digital Collective artist, Leah Pollock!

Leah, it’s an honor to have you as part of our Digital Collective. Thank you for allowing us to share your beautiful work and creative journey with our community.

You can currently find Leah’s work locally at MIXD Gallery in Rogers, AR, and on Artsy. To learn more about her teaching, consulting, and upcoming offerings, visit www.studioleahpollock.com.

Be sure to sign up for Leah’s newsletter through her website to receive quarterly updates on exhibitions, new work, events, and more.

Up next: another incredible Digital Collective artist, coming this Sunday!

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Leah Pollock | Follow Along

We hope you’ve enjoyed following along this week with our featured Digital Collective artist, Leah Pollock!

Leah, it’s an honor to have you as part of our Digital Collective. Thank you for allowing us to share your beautiful work and creative journey with our community.

You can currently find Leah’s work locally at MIXD Gallery in Rogers, AR, and on Artsy. To learn more about her teaching, consulting, and upcoming offerings, visit www.studioleahpollock.com.

Be sure to sign up for Leah’s newsletter through her website to receive quarterly updates on exhibitions, new work, events, and more.

Up next: another incredible Digital Collective artist, coming this Sunday!

#womenoftheozarks #arkansasartist #ozarklife #arkansasart #contemporarysculpture

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Leah Pollock | Goals + Community Reflections

To participate meaningfully in community requires more than contributing to it; it requires examining it. Artists, educators, organizations, and patrons all operate within systems that often become invisible through familiarity. Like fish unaware of the water they swim in, we can easily mistake inherited structures, norms, and values for natural conditions. A healthy creative community continually questions the systems it inhabits, asking who benefits, who is excluded, and what assumptions shape the environment.

I hope my work provides inward reflection to shared spaces that continually provide landscape for ideal living and thinking. Outdoor exploration and recreation expands to all people, throughout all time, and I continue to focus on subject matter of trails and land as the basis of meaning for relational existence. We overlook the past and focus too much on what we can extract from this planet to serve our individual and nuclear lives. Clay helps me connect the dots between inaction and action, personal and collective movement and critical thinking. I honestly feel like art is just the catalyst that provides the space to process. Objects become fruit of the labor of moving and thinking with undertones of care, reflection and intention.

#womenoftheozarks #arkansasartist #ozarklife #arkansasart #contemporarysculpture

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Leah Pollock | Creative Practice + Rituals

I am constantly re-engineering my approach to clay as a medium due to project demands, creative curiosity, or business reasons. I find that if I stay too long in one rhythm, I crave change. I think of it more as adding to, not leaving, ways of working. Descending from multi-generational engineers, I find that solving a problem technically can provide a spark and deep commitment. The flow of the work, and the established relationship I have with clay, sustain the practice. I am at my best when I don’t know the answers and the work transforms in front of me, not over planning or sketching, with one word or a vague idea in the back of my head.

A day in my studio is always piecemeal due to other commitments, or the way my brain works. I crave long focus, and the studio provides this but my current life demands all my parts to be separate. Motherhood taught me not to dwell on this, to show up as I am and give my best in those three-minute to three-hour increments. I can’t remember a time I had an entire day in the studio, so multi-tasking is survival. I did best when I had a basement studio with no windows and brought my lunch and dinner with me. Like endurance running, I know that the more you give, the deeper you get, so I try hard to clock my hours and show up for myself even when I don’t feel like it.

#womenoftheozarks #arkansasartist #ozarklife #arkansasart #contemporarysculpture

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Leah Pollock | Medium

I started as a 2D artist obsessing over clouds and the rhythm of water. I brought it down to earth with the addition of learning the pottery wheel which hit me so hard it became synonymous with my identity. The relational quality clay provides keeps me connected and in conversation, like an old friend. I dabble in other media and try not to overthink it, adding in skills that are adjacent to my ceramic practice.

#womenoftheozarks #arkansasartist #ozarklife #arkansasart #contemporarysculpture

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