Meagan was born and raised in Rochester, NY where she was immersed in the world of arts and crafts. Her mother, also an artist, started Meagan on her artistic path with basket weaving, jewelry making, and painting. She took all the art classes available at Victor High School, gravitating toward sculpture and ceramics.
Meagan pursued her passion for ceramics at The New Hampshire Institute of Art receiving her BFA in 2016 with a minor in art history. After college Meagan began working at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, NH as an Art Instructor teaching a wide variety of classes. She taught basket weaving, kids camps & birthday parties, drawing, watercolors, workshops, adult throwing classes, and outreach classes to Montessori school children and adults with developmental and cognitive disabilities at the Siddharth Center. She took on the role of ceramics studio manager in 2017 at the Currier and stayed on during the pandemic teaching classes online.
She also joined Pinkerton Academy from 2020 to 2021 co-teaching studio art, ceramics, watercolor, and metalsmithing to highschoolers with an educator who couldn’t come into the classroom. This experience solidified Meagan’s love of teaching and pushed her to chase her dreams and pursue her MFA.
In 2021, Meagan moved back to Rochester to pursue her Master of Fine Arts in ceramics at the Rochester Institute of Technology. There she worked as a graduate assistant under Peter Pincus (ceramics) and Christina Leung (sculpture). She presented her thesis show “The Validity of Shape and Form” in April of 2023 and graduated the following month with her MFA. Meagan’s work revolves around formalism, color theory, and geometry. She dreams of one day building a playground for everyone to be able to interact with her art. To see more, check out her website: meagansnavely.com.
Meagan began at the Creative Workshop at the MAG in July of 2023. She looks forward to jumping into teaching summer camps, 1-day workshops, and ceramics. Meagan encourages her students to try new things and explore the world around them.
