- Active: Dallas, TX
- Educated: Austin Peay, Clarksville (Montgomery County)
- Region: Middle
- Medium: Ceramics
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Earline Green
The Henrietta Dwells Series was inspired by Rebecca Skloot’s book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. This body of work celebrates the scientific contributions made by Henrietta Lacks’ cell lineage. My interest led to Henrietta’s family tree and the Millennial Lackses. The Nautilus Shell symbolizes the evolution of Henrietta’s ancestry, children, and the scientific milestones aligned with the birth of her grandchildren. The Mollusk that inhabits the shell dates to prehistoric times and continues to thrive the same way as Henrietta’s (HeLa) Cells.
Earline Green is a career educator and renowned ceramic artist whose work is in public and private collections. She is best known for the 2006 Public Art Commission for the Paul Laurence Dunbar Public Library Murals in Dallas, Texas. She was recognized internationally through the Paragon Kilns’ Advertisements highlighting her Legacy Ceramic Tile Murals. She has artwork published in Contemporary African American Ceramic Artists, 500 Prints in Clay, 500 Tiles: Inspiring Collection of International Work and Image Transfer on Clay books, and Pottery Making Illustrated magazine. She was featured in the video series by Veria, The Art of Living Gallery 2007, and is the Potter in the introduction segment of the TD Jakes Potter’s Touch Television Ministry, 2007-08.
Ms. Green’s work commemorates the struggles of Underacknowledged Spirits from the United States’ Reconstruction Era to potters and ceramic educators of the twentieth century. Her projects celebrate specific legacies, both public figures and personal. The Works serves as the Griot (storyteller) as the viewer journeys through what should have been ancestral endowments, milestones, and landmarks. In the 2018/19 school year, she received a Faculty Development Leave to research the H. Wilson & Co. Pottery business established by emancipated enslaved potters. Scholars believe the company was the first business owned by Black Entrepreneurs in the State of Texas. In 2024, the Center for Craft awarded her a Fellowship to continue documenting the legacies of 19th-century Enslaved and Free Potters of East Texas.
Ms. Green is an advocate for the Empty Bowls Project. Under her leadership in 2015, the Tarrant County College South Campus Ceramics Program was one of two institutions of Higher Education from Texas invited to participate in the 25th Anniversary Celebration for Empty Bowls in Providence, Rhode Island. At the peak of the Tarrant County College South Campus Ceramics Program, an average of 200 bowls (per food bank) were donated to the Tarrant Area and North Texas Food Banks. The Tarrant County College South Campus Empty Bowls Initiative was a series of bowl production workshops, including making bisque bowls to be painted by community groups, bowl-making and painting workshops for employees, campus clubs/organizations, and local public schools. She established the ceramics studio at Tarrant County College South Campus as a Service-Learning Site, which provided students with service-learning credit. The Service-Learning Project was a student-led teamwork-based theme activity.
She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Design) from Austin Peay State University and a Master of Fine Arts (Ceramics) from Texas Woman’s University.
CRAFTING BLACKNESS 
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