Jerilyn Virden is a studio artist living in Greensboro, Vermont. Alongside her husband, glass artist Devin Burgess, she co-owns Borealis Studios. Their shared space encompasses Jerilyn's pottery studio and Devin's glass studio. She was an artist-in-residence at Penland School of Crafts from 2001-2004 and remained in that community for ten years until moving to Vermont in 2011. She received the Society of Arts and Crafts Artist Award In 2014 and in 2006 she received a North Carolina Arts Fellowship Grant. She earned her MFA from Southern Methodist University in 2001, and BFA from West Virginia University in 1997 where she studied abroad at the Jingdezhen Ceramic Art Institute in China. Before attending graduate school she completed a two year assistantship at the studio of Silvie Granatelli, in Floyd, Virginia. Her work has been exhibited at the Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Currier Museum of art, and she has work in multiple permanent collections including the Asheville Art Museum and NCECA. To learn more about Jerilyn and see more images of her work, please visit www.borealisstudios.com.