about
Carmen Jimenez is a sustainable object maker. Her work is for all who live on this earth. She rescues materials that are being disposed of and hand crafts new wares for her neighbors. Carmen hopes these oddments will be loved by the modern human user, and the future generations of life to inherit them. Growing up on a barrier island in New Jersey, Carmen sees how drastically the landscape changes and chooses to welcome the not-so-distant future when the hermit crabs and dogfish inherit her things.
Clay is Carmen’s first love, and she remains conscious of the permanence of fired ceramic. Local clay is utilized between layers of melted LDPE plastic, slumped glass bottles, and newspaper pulp. Scrappy but intentional, her work asks the user to deeply reconsider their consumption and their relationship with the planet.
Please touch, use, and love these objects.

curriculum vitae
CARMEN JIMENEZ
06.02.1999
carmenmakesthings@gmail.com
ig: @carmenmakesthings
Education
2022
BFA, magna cum laude, Interdisciplinary Sculpture, Minor Ceramics, Sustainability + Social Practice, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD
2020
Osaka Gakuin University, Suita, Osaka Prefecture, Japan (Japanese language courses)
2017
Marine Academy of Science and Technology, Highlands, NJ
Residencies
2021
Carpentry Apprenticeship, Monstera Acre, Dowelltown TN
2020
Restoration Artist Residency, Yellow Bird Artscape, Woodberry TN
Solo Exhibitions and Events
2022
Conscious Oddments, Gateway Gallery Baltimore MD
2020
Artist Talk, Cumberland University, Cumberland TN
Group Exhibitions and Events
2022
MICA Art Walk 2022, Gateway Gallery, Baltimore MD
Something Long, Preposterous, and Somewhat Cumbersome, Fox 3 Gallery, Baltimore MD
2021
Halloween Indoor Market, Philadelphia PA
Medusa’s Market, Philadelphia PA
Phoenix Festival, A New View Camden, Camden NJ
2020
Art Night 2020, Echo Lake, Fayette ME
2019
Earth Echoes, Gateway Gallery, Baltimore MD
Art Market Student Vendor, Brown Center, Baltimore, MD
Sign Language: Breaking Down Behavior, Brown Center, Baltimore MD
Brigantine Art Walk, The Sea Wall, Brigantine NJ
2018
MICA Juried Exhibition, Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore MD
Fiber Art Exhibition Middendorf Gallery, Baltimore MD
Brigantine Art Walk, The Sea Wall, Brigantine NJ
Experience
2022
Ceramic Production Assistant, [recycling clay, rolling slabs, relief printing, customer relationships] Beatriz Marti Ceramics, Guaynabo PR
Ceramic Production Assistant [hand produce mugs from start to finish] CONLOQUE, Cupey PR
Flower Show Salesperson [sold heirloom seeds, art, gardening tools] Hudson Seed Company, Philadelphia PA
2021
Artist Apprentice [construction, landscaping, earthen plastering, mural painting] A New View Camden, Camden NJ
Production Assistant and Retail Worker [customer relationships, shipping and receiving, managed financial transactions] Ceramic Concept, Philadelphia PA
Pottery Assistant [glaze mixing, wheel throwing, hand building, maintaining firing schedules] Susan Demay Pottery, Smithville, TN
Carpentry Apprentice [built a porch, chicken coop, door frames, floors, planters] Monstera Acre, Dowelltown TN
Flower Show Salesperson [sold heirloom seeds, art, gardening tools] Hudson Seed Company, Philadelphia PA
2020
Organic Farm Worker World Wide Opportunites on Organic Farms, [landscape designer, grounds keeper, and gardener]
Pottery Instructor, [firing kiln, recycling clay, mixing glazes, sanitizing tools, teaching children] Camp Winnebago, Fayette, ME
The Noyes Arts Garage Intern, [Conducted interviews, created social media content, designed at-home virtual art lessons] The Arts Garage, Atlantic City, NJ
Awards
2020
Public Health Associate in Camping,
Merit Achievement Award
2017-2021
MICA Dean’s List
MICA Creative Vision Award
MICA DaVinci Award
2016
Cleveland Institute of Art Pre-College Scholarship
Publications
2020
Noyes Museum of Art, Recycled Plastic Charms Art Project, Hammonton NJ
Noyes Museum of Art, Macramé Wall Art Project, Hammonton NJ
Stockton University, Recycled Plastic Charms Art Project, Atlantic City NJ
Stockton University, Macramé Wall Art Project, Atlantic City NJ