The Lawrence Arts Center has announced the 2014-15 artists-in-residence, ceramist Gunyoung Kim and printmaker Tonja Torgerson.

Starting in August, Kim and Torgerson will teach classes, work on solo and collaboration projects in the studios and take part in community-driven programs for one full year.

Kim won this year’s Graduate Award for excellence from the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts. She received her master’s degree in ceramics from Ohio State University and her bachelor’s degree in ceramics from Kookmin University in Seoul, South Korea. Her work focuses on the psyche by manipulating the facial expressions, gestures or staging of figures.

Torgerson received her master’s degree in printmaking from Syracuse University and a bachelor’s degree in studio arts from the University of Minnesota. Her work deals with illness, death, and impermanence of the body through portrait work.

Both have all-level teaching experience and have shown widely in a number of exhibitions.