Adriana Dakin
Art Center Ukiah
Studio web site: www.horsetailstudio.com
Adriana Dakin grew up in San Francisco and her family’s ranch near Ukiah in northern California. After learning painting, woodworking, textiles, and other arts at the San Francisco Waldorf School, Adriana began making pottery in high school in 1988, unexpectedly discovering a passion. She then studied ceramics at Wesleyan University, City College of San Francisco, Alfred University’s International Woodfire Symposium in China in 2000, and continues at Mendocino College in Ukiah. She is part of a woodfire group with Doug Browe and Jan Hoyman.
In addition to being a potter, Adriana is a principal with the Madera Group in communication strategy and organizational development. She co-chairs the board of Young Women Social Entrepreneurs in San Francisco and serves on the Sun House guild board at the Grace Hudson Museum in Ukiah.
Adriana has a Bachelors degree with honors in History from Wesleyan University, where she earned Phi Beta Kappa, and a Master in Public Policy degree from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She has travelled widely and credits clay for closer friendships during international research trip
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