Jessica Williams

Jessica Abbott Williams was born in Washington D.C. and because her father worked in international affairs and her mother is Dutch, she and her sisters grew up traveling extensively and living around the world including years spent in Bangkok, Thailand and Vienna, Austria. As an undergraduate she studied English Literature and Poetry at Westmont College in Montecito. After college she worked for many years in New York at the Museum of Modern Art, Chanel and the Council on Foreign Relations. At the age of 29, she returned to California to study ceramics at the California College of the Arts and received a BFA in 1997.