Artist Statement
We are something that needs to be many things to be one thing at all. We die many times to survive the distinctions of possibility as our conceptions come together with the making of our hearts. Art allows the identification of something personal to us outside of ourselves. So, when I make art, my goal is to let my stories come more freely than I can perceive any other way. To use my art as a means of communication. In that way, every outcome is an articulate emotion- an emotion that is translated only by feeling to those who can identify with it. Art is the experience of soulful collaboration. This is why my current body of ceramic work is titled with a recommended course of action. By wondering more about what is between us that we cannot see or speak, we have a chance to understand each other. This is your invitation to invite the invisible.
Bio
b.1995 Allentown, PA​
Addy Sechler has always been an artist. Working across multiple disciplines, they interpret themes of self, grief, magic, time, and the restoration of human experience through experimental folk tradition and images of self. Figurative ceramic sculpture lies at the center of their current practice where the issues and questions of what it means to exist play out in ever evolving forms. Addy has been awarded several opportunities for their work including the Burlington City Arts Studio Access Grant (2018, 2019), the Clay Corner’s Diversity Scholarship (2024), Washington Clay Arts annual poster (2025), Career Residency at the Clay Corner (2025), and are a part of permanent collections in the Northern New England Museum of Contemporary Art.

Contact
​​addysechler@gmail.com
