Beth Lambert

As Director of the Windgate Art School, Beth Lambert is responsible for furthering a robust sixty-year art education legacy that started with the Arkansas Arts Center. Lambert began her current position in 2021 following a long history with the Museum; having taken her first art class at the Arkansas Arts Center as a child, she was eager to return after graduating from Hendrix College. In 2000, she took a ceramics class on a whim that changed the trajectory of her life.

In 2005, Lambert completed an apprenticeship with a teacher from the AAC, potter Clary Illian, who had himself been a student of Bernard Leach–the father of modern studio pottery. Shortly afterwards, she retired from a 20-year career in writing, marketing, and software engineering to pursue a career as a studio potter. After a decade of teaching at the AAC, Hendrix College, and Penland School of Crafts, Lambert accepted a position as Ceramic Department Chair and later, Associate Director of the Museum School for 3D programming. She was promoted to Director of the Windgate Art School in May of 2021.