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
Girl Scout Gold Award
March 2020
“Ava Tesoriero put her passion for art into creating a ‘Sensory Art Program’ for special needs adults at Corpus Christi.”
~Ed Barmakian