Press & Publications

518 Profiles

May 2025, Issue 67, pg 18-23

“The wheel spins for Ava in many directions. With color. With style, and with her own special signature on each piece she creates, never, even for a minute, losing respect for the process.”

~Rona Mann

Skidmore Snapshots

November 2024, pg 8-9

“As a studio art major specializing in ceramics, along with minors in art history and arts administration, Ava sought an internship that would blend her artistic enthusiasm and her academic pursuits.”

SEE-Beyond Award - 2024

Spotlight: Contemporary Art Magazine

October 2024, Issue 39, pg 120-21

“The small, narrow opening of each vessel in this series, ‘Interstellar,’ adds an element of curiosity by drawing the viewer in closer and encouraging them to think about the unseen, the hidden, and the possibilities that lie within.”

Land, Sea & Sky Exhibition

Best in Show, 3-Dimensional Category - 2024

“Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”

~ John Lubbock

Art League of the Chathams

2021 Scholarship Recipient

“Our scholarship winner, Ava, is not just an honor student, but an energetic young woman, whose busy schedule includes volunteerism, Girl Scouts and equestrian pursuits.”

~Ann Frommer

“Ava Tesoriero put her passion for art into creating a ‘Sensory Art Program’ for special needs adults at Corpus Christi.”

~Ed Barmakian