Ursula Hudak has been an active ceramicist for over fifteen years. Mentored in her youth by potter Marian Ferrer, she expanded her practice at Oberlin College as member and Co-President of their Pottery Co-op while studying to receive her BA in Art History. She graduated with honors, writing her undergraduate thesis on reclining nudes by Matisse and Modigliani in the Allen Memorial Art Museum and their relation to their donors, the Bissetts, who co-founded the Maidenform bra company.

After graduating from Oberlin she joined the Roxbury Arts Group team, where she works as their Creative Opportunities Coordinator, managing their CROP program, the Walter Meade Gallery, and the Delaware County Arts Grant program. Ursula returned to Oberlin’s Pottery Co-op in March of 2025 for a three-week artist residency, where she created ‘Silence from Slovakia’, a new body of work which were then finished over the course of the following year.

Currently, she is a member and teacher at the Smithy Clay Studio in Cooperstown, where she continues to create both functional and sculptural works; she lives in Oneonta with her husband, Leon, and their three rowdy cats.