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Bonnie Duncan Bravo debuted her new body of work entitled "For His Glory" at the St. Petersburg Clay Company on November 13, 2009.

Currently, Bonnie and her husband Omar continue to fundraise for their mission work in Costa Rica while deveoping and performing their "God the Potter" Presentation.


  • Biography
  • Resume
  • Why The Rhino?

Teacher and Potter.
Bonnie Duncan Bravo was born in Atlanta, Georgia and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. She gained her B.A. in Studio Art from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and completed a 2-Year Residency at the St. Petersburg Clay Company in Florida.

Bonnie recently debuted her second professional body of work titled "For His Glory". Currently, she is preparing to spend 2010 with 6:8 Ministries doing mission work in Costa Rica.

Bonnie felt her calling to become a full time artist in the spring of 2006 and moved to St. Pete, FL where she began her Residency at the St. Petersburg Clay Co. There she grew in her work, developing her soda firing and glaze techniques.

With a heart for teaching, Bonnie also gained a minor in Elementary Education from the University of Tennessee. After graduation, she became an intern in the art department at Rabun Gap Nachochee School in the hills of north Georgia. While in the Artist in Residence program at SPCC, Bonnie also taught ceramics, book binding, and papermaking classes at Youth Arts Corps, a program that gives underprivileged teens an opportunity to explore futures in art through free instruction.

In the future, Bonnie looks forward to continuing her education in ceramics as well as positively affecting her student’s lives through paper and clay.


Resume Highlights

- Graduated from University of Tennessee

- Studied in Jingdezhen, China

- Artist in Residence at SPCC

- Mission Work with 6:8 Ministries, Costa Rica

- Plethora of Experience in Art Instruction

- Ever Expanding Body of Work
The following was adapted from the book "The Barbarian Way" by Erwin McManus:

It’s a swarm of bees and a colony of ants. A pod of whales, a school of fish, a herd of cattle, a flock of birds. But wait, they get better: A pride of lions, a murder of crows, an ambush of tigers, a committee of buzzards, a parliament of owls, and a flamboyant of flamingos...

“But my favorite of all is the group designation for rhinos. You see, rhinos can run thirty miles an hour, which is pretty fast when you consider how much weight they’re pulling. They’re actually faster than squirrels, which can run up to twenty-six miles an hour. And even then who’s going to live in dread of a charging squirrel! (Sorry—that was a bit off the point.) Running at thirty miles an hour is faster than a used Pinto will go. Just one problem with this phenomenon. Rhinos can see only thirty feet in front of them. Can you imagine something that large moving in concert as a group, plowing ahead at thirty miles an hour with no idea what’s at thirty-one feet? You would think that they would be far too timid to pick up full steam, that their inability to see far enough ahead would paralyze them to immobility. But with that horn pointing the way, rhinos run forward full steam ahead without apprehension, which leads us to their name.

Rhinos moving together at full speed are known as a crash. Even when they’re just hanging around enjoying the watershed, they’re called a crash because of their potential. You’ve got to love that. I think that’s what we’re supposed to be. That’s what happens when we become barbarians and shake free of domestication and civility. The church becomes a crash. We become an unstoppable force. We don’t have to pretend we know the future. Who cares that we can see only thirty feet ahead? Whatever’s at thirty-one feet needs to care that we’re coming and better get out of the way.



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