I am honored to be part of the inaugural cohort of USA artists featured in the Homo Faber Guide and to receive the #homofaber seal of approval.
Lead Through Creativity /
I have recently received my certification from BrainFirst Institute as a Neuroscience Certified Coach!
I am offering support through my new coaching practice Lead Through Creativity to individuals and teams who would like to up the game of leadership and explore and nurture their creative instincts and motivations. Coaching is a way of get intentional about the plans that are on your wish list. My approach is informed by science, rooted in the experience of making, and aligned with the practicality of everyday life. I get you.
New research publication is out /
Clay ARTools: Precise Machine Toolpath Editing for Clay 3D Printing With Craft-Inspired Direct Manipulation Tools in AR
Our new research with Joyce E Passananti, Emilie Yu, Tobias Höllerer, and Jennifer Jacobs of UCSB has been published in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library. The paper is presented at the 2026 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Barcelona Spain April 13 - 17, 2026.
Read the paper here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3772318.3791878
Winter 2025 Artist Events /
First Thursday Art Walk - The Shop
I have been invited by LMN Architects to display my work and to present a short artist talk and a demonstration of ceramic printing at The Shop. (723 1st Ave, Seattle, WA 98104)
The event is free and open to the public 5-9pm on February 6th, 2025.
In addition to a pop-up exhibition of my work, I am also presenting Touching Space VR environment and having a limited edition set of small functional pieces for sale. Join us for an evening of refreshments, clay, code, and fun! VR experience is first come, first served 5:30-6pm and 6:30-7pm. Artist talk at 5:30pm.
On Friday, February 21st, 5-7pm, I am giving a more formal artist talk and will adress experimental possibilities with ceramic 3D printing at the Kirkland Arts Center. The event is free and open to the public.
Corpus to Corpus in Ceramic Review and at the MoNA Ceramic Invitational /
Three large sculptures that I created during my 2023 residency at the MakerHouse Santa Barbara are on view January 25 through May 11, 2025 at the Museum of Northwest Art Ceramic Invitational 2025: Build Me Up, Tear Me Down, Why Don’t You Love Me Babe Like There’s No One Around? curated by Stefano Catalani.
The title of the work emerged from a series of interviews with artist and art critic Janet Abrams, whose wonderful in-depth article about my work, Corpus to Corpus was also published in the September/October 2024 issue of Ceramic Review.
Artist Residencies in 2024 /
I am grateful for the opportunity to be able to create work this year at the MakerHouse Santa Barbara (formerly Clay Studio of Santa Barbara). During 2024, I plan to return several times for shorter sessions in order to complete Corpus to Corpus on the Studio’s large ceramic printers.
Artist Talk: Saturday, March 30th at 11am. Q&A with snacks and coffee (main classroom space) 12:30pm. Studio walk through, VR demonstration. 1pm
It’s been invigorating to connect with University of Santa Barbara Expressive Computation Lab, lead by Jenifer Jacobs.
In September-October, I was doing a residency in Souther France, in the historic city of Vallauris. I was inspired by the ceramics history of Vallauris and France, sharing living and working spaces with four women artists, and experiencing the thrill and tenuous state of being a foreigner in a new country. I created a video installation with raw unfired clay, hemp and oakum fibers, Sisters.
Sisters explores space, materiality, light, and sound and has a beautiful soundtrack Trinkbrunnen by Guenter Schlienz. Fragility has always been central to my work, explored literally in the materials, as well as implied by the forms. Fragility, for me, is the human condition. It is the strength built from a multitude of tiny connections, swaying in precarious balance, and being mindful of material impermanence. Sisters was presented at the Chapelle de la Miséricorde A.I.R. Vallauris.
Both of these residencies were made possible through the generous support by Kreisheimel-Jones Research Grant, University of Washington.
Cultbites published an article about working in Vallauris.
Exhibition "Tender" at Greg Kucera Gallery /
In Timea Tihanyi’s ceramic sculptures heavily textured undulating surfaces billow, gather, and fold like
linen. Her medium, porcelain, resembles starched fabrics of a long-gone past, stubbornly holding their
shape, while beginning to succumb to unseen forces.
For Tihanyi, the craft heritage of handmaking is as important as the digital technology she builds her
sculptures with. She references domestic textiles from Hungary: puffy down beddings (“dunyha”) and
wedding dowries of crisp linens (“kelengye”) decorated with traditional cross-stitch embroidery patterns
from Central and Eastern Europe. Her work is grown out of a maternal lineage of blue-collar labor in
textile mills and lace factories, mending and sewing for hire. Tihanyi’s domain is the social, considering
personal and community histories, economic and political contexts, and the natural language of
materials she uses and references.
An early innovator with ceramic 3d printing, Tihanyi carefully examines the binary world of technology
and puts the digital in dialogue with the clay material. Her research combines basic geometric motifs
from Hungarian embroidery. Building the work meticulously and patiently, she layers original design
elements digitally in a CAD program until a more complex and entirely novel image emerges. The stiches
in the cloth are translated as textures—made up by small bumps and loops in porcelain—extruded by
the 3D printer. Tihanyi’s work references the pottery tradition of the vessel. Embracing a hollow volume,
its walls are being shaped by forces both from the inside and the outside. Similarly, Tihanyi’s sculptures
are reshaped after the printing with gentle pressure, weight, and gravity in repeated firings. The
resulting forms are always a surprise. In these, the precision of the digital code meets accidental
slippages of clay, balancing of intention with serendipity, precariousness with strength, and
mathematical logic with beauty.
Tender was supported by a 2022 CityArtist grant from Seattle Office of Arts and Culture.
Opening reception: July 6th
Meet the artist: August 3rd
Exhibition runs July 6 - August 5, 2023
New Spring and Summer Exhibitions, Teaching Technoceramics at Haystack /
XO 23
Ancient Tech + Future Relics at the historic Coliseum Theater
July 14th through July 30
Celebrating Pacific Northwest Artists: 25 Years of the Neddy Awards
at the Museum of History and Industry MOHAI Seattle
June 3rd through September 5th
Artist panel discussion
Hear stories in the discussion about how our art carriers and PNW art scene has changed in the past 25 years with artists Claire Cowie, Nathan DiPietro and myself, moderated by Neddy 25th exhibit curator Negarra A. Kudumu. Recording on the MOHAI channel.
Ceramic 3D Printing at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Teaching a session 3 workshop July 16-28 Material — Human — Machine: Experimental Possibilities in Clay 3D Printing
We are using a dazzling variety of equipment from WASP, Potterbot ceramic 3D printers to an ABB IRB robot.
Bridges ART&Math Conference
I’ll be presenting a short paper on the Pathfinder: 3D Printing Data with Trigonometry and Chance. Papers are available through the Bridges Archives after the Conference.
Conference participation was supported by a School of Art, Art History and Design, University of Washington Wickoff Milliman grant.
New Publications, Spring 2023 /
The Inner Ear
Wrapping up this two-year project with Studio Tilt.
The Inner Ear: Capturing and Physicalizing Home Vibrations is published by the Proceedings of Designing Interactive Systems. DIS’23. ACM Press
Interview on Art&Math
I had so much fun this past year teaching a new course in Art&Math with Jayadev Athreya, supported by a Mellon Foundation Grant at the UW.
In the winter, I did an interview for w/k Between Science and Art, the Swiss peer-reviewed journal, which is now online:
https://between-science-and-art.com/timea-tihanyi-mathematics-and-3d-printing-ceramic-objects/
Haystack Labs
Excited to be participating in the experimental program in Technology and the Arts developed and piloted by MIT Center for Bits and Atoms and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. I’ll be working with ceramic 3D printing and AI.
Exhibition at Das Schaufenster and Seattle Times article /
I am honored to be part of The Middle Seat exhibition series at Das Schaufenster with a new installation Like Love. Organized by Anastasia Babenko and Anna Mlasowsky, the series is “centering the voices of Eastern European Immigrant artists.”
An article about the show featuring Like Love, was published in the Sunday Seattle Times Visual Arts on August 7th, 2022.
Video documentary about Object Permanence /
Object Permanence 2022 Exhibition Interview with artist Timea Tihanyi is now available on my Vimeo channel. I invite the viewer into my studio to talk about the ideas informing the exhibition Object Permanence. See the studio process of ceramic 3D printing and my technique for manipulating porcelain into a fabric. I discuss the objects and memories from my native Hungarian culture, which inspired this body of work.
Object Permanence installation concept and design is a collaboration with Seattle artist Sylwia Tur, whose ceramic work shares the display with Tihanyi's 3D printed porcelain sculptures, laser etched acrylic panels, and single channel video pieces. Object Permanence is on view January 21st, 2022 through May 29th, 2022 at the Bellevue Arts Museum.
Video credits: Reid Fuhr. Installation stills: Mark Woods Object. Permanence slow motion video production assistance: Illuxion. Thank you Irene Holroyd for facilitating the interview with excellent questions.
Exhibition at the Bellevue Arts Museum /
Object Permanence, a collaboratively designed and built installation with Sylwia Tur, is on view January 21 through May 29, 2022 at the Bellevue Arts Museum.
Artist Talk: 3PM April 9th, 2022
New Online Remote Workshops with Slip Rabbit + Links to Publications /
While Slip Rabbit is still closed for in-person programming, I’m delighted to introduce a new workshop format for these Covid times of social distancing and remote learning. These are HANDS-ON opportunities for technical consultation and/or for custom workshops to address specific ceramic technical / ceramic 3D printing questions.
The workshop/consultation appointments can be scheduled in 60-minute increments here: https://quickrabbitdesigns.bigcartel.com/product/remote-online-ceramic-3d-printing-workshop
I’m honored to be included is in the freshly published Illustrating Mathematics book by AMS! If you would like to buy a copy of this beautiful book, you can do so here: https://bookstore.ams.org/mbk-135
My own publication, Making and Breaking Rules. Algorithmic Forms and Tactile Processes - A Technoceramist’s Adventures with Mathematical Thinking, a tactile artist book full of great resources is going fast. Purchase your copy here: https://quickrabbitdesigns.bigcartel.com/product/book
McMillen Foundation Fellowship /
I am honored to be selected as one of the 2020 MAC Fellows by the Robert C. McMillen Foundation. With the help of the fellowship, I’ll continue my research of Hungarian textile traditions, in particular, cross stitch patterns in the Great Plains (Nagy Alföld) region. I’m interested in the origin and interpretation of the design motifs, and how they may be reinterpreted with 21st century technologies. I will use both ceramic printing and computer knitting to rethink both the process of making, as well as the medium.
2020 Fall exhibitions /
Counter—Part, my 4th solo exhibition at the Linda Hodges Gallery is now open to the public Tue-Sat 10:30am-5pm September 3rd through the 26th. No appointments are needed, but please wear a face mask and observe social distancing guidelines. The exhibition showcases work done in lockdown during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: Etelköz, a series of deconstructed porcelain forms; Textile Traditions, a selection of richly textured magnificent vessels, with motifs based on traditional Central European textiles; and Counter—Part, autobiographical sculptures made with a Delta WASP ceramic 3D printer.
Please join me at the gallery during a Meet the Artist event on Saturday, September 26th 1-3pm.
I’m honored to be part of a four artist show of digital ceramics at the Sculpture Space NYC. I’m showing work from two of my previous collaborations with mathematicians: Sandpile Models with Sara Billey and Algorithmic Knitting with Frank Farris.
The spring Museum of Glass exhibition featuring artist working with technology in glass has reopened. My work is also on display at the HQ of Perkins Coie, Seattle until the end of December.
Studio Life during a Pandemic /
In-line with the State of Washington, King County, the University of Washington and the City of Seattle recommendations regarding the COVID-19 virus pandemic, I decided to suspend all public-facing activities at the studio until further notice.
I am grateful for the privilege of health, space and creative opportunities that allows me to continue work on several projects during these uncertain times of change. I am also thinking about how to support artists and health care workers during this time of great need and anxiety.
In collaboration with several UW departments, I’m printing face shields for UW Medical Center.
See this video news piece by Seattle Channel.
Timea's book about Math and Ceramic 3D printing is out /
I’m delighted to announce the publication of my book: MAKING AND BREAKING RULES: Algorithmic Forms and Tactile Processes - A Techoceramist’s Adventures with Mathematical Thinking.
It’s an artist’s process book, though I tried to put as much relevant technical information in it about the math and about 3D printing/ceramic 3D printing as possible. There are also musings about cross-disciplinary collaboration, the language of art and math, the tradition of craft in the digital age, and about rule-based systems. Lots of references are included for those who would like to dig deeper and there is also a selection of rule-based pieces I’ve made in the past few years.
The online version of the book is available now through Slip Rabbit for flipping through or as a series of free downloads. If you would like to reserve your physical printed copy, a beautifully produced 150-page volume by Quality Press, Georgetown, please get in touch. Sales of the book will begin in my online shop later this spring.
Just Published: Céramique + Studio Potter interview /
I’m honored to have my work included in the beautiful book Céramique by Charlotte Vannier and Véronique Pettit Laforet (published in November 2019 by Pyramyd books, Paris, France).
The book features 90 contemporary ceramists from all over the world.
In addition, the August issue of Studio Potter published an interview with me by Bryan Czibesz.
Read our conversation about how I got into clay, became interested in ceramic 3D printing and why I founded Slip Rabbit.
NCECA invited presentation, Women in 3D Printing article, Intercontinental Ceramics Project and new videos /
It is a great honor to be featured in the Women in 3D Printing magazine with a wonderful interview this month. I’ve been traveling a lot this winter and spring for presenting artist lectures, demos, talks and workshops at various colleges and national/international conferences, including the Intercontinental Ceramics Project in Valencia, Spain, NCECA FabLab in Minneapolis, and doing joint talks about a collaboration with math professor Sara Billey at the annual Math Day and the Math Hour organized at the UW.
I have two beautiful videos of recent projects now online: ListeningCups is a collaboration with interaction designer Audrey Desjardens about data-tactilty and data-stories/data-fictions . Ringató (Cradled) is my technohaptic proposition for a pas deux between the human body and a 3D printer.
The Spring Slip Rabbit Open Studio is Saturday, May 11th, 3-5pm with a focus on fiber arts.
2018 Neddy Award in Open Media /
I’m honored to be the winner of this year’s Neddy Award in Open Media.
The Neddy is awarded since 1996 by the Cornish College of the Arts and the Behnke Foundation in memory of Robert E. (Ned) Behnke (1948–1989).
Read CityArts magazine and Discover SLU magazine reviews.
Here is a video about my studio process produced by Rollofall for the Neddy.
The work of all the finalists will be on view during an exhibition at the Cornish Playhouse Gallery from Nov. 14 to Dec. 16.