Jody Mussoff (born 1952 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American ceramist and artist, living in Virginia. Biography Mussoff was born in 1952 in Pittsburgh]], Pennsylvania. She received her art training at Carnegie-Mellon University and the Corcoran College of Art and Design. Her work was included in the exhibition Graphic Masters III, held at the Smithsonian Institution's American Art Museum in 2010. Work Mussoff's brightly colored drawings represent people and animals from her imagination. She uses a cross-hatching technique, and leaves much of the background blank. Her ceramics are earthenware, also brightly colored, decorated with people and animals. There is humor and a surrealistic quality to her drawings and ceramics. Critical reception Mossoff's drawings have been described by The Washington Post as "technically brilliant", while The Orlando Sentinel observed that her drawing's richly colored skin again stands out, although here to more quirkily psychological effect." The Baltimore Sun described her drawings as having a "degree of understated humor that keeps the message from becoming heavy-handed." Collections Mussoff's work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art's Corcoran Collection, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Princeton University Art Museum Smithsonian American Art Museum, University of Maryland, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Yale University Art Gallery, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Kunsthalle Nürnberg, and the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts. Mussoff is listed in major artist databases. References External links Mussoff's Drawings Speak Quietly on Life Go Figure: Representing the Representational at Maryland Art Place Representative Offerings, By Pamela Murray Winters American ceramists American portrait artists American potters American women ceramists Jewish American artists Artists from Maryland Artists from Pittsburgh Corcoran School of the Arts and Design alumni Living people 1952 births 20th-century American women artists Women potters 21st-century American women artists 21st-century ceramists Artists from Washington, D.C.