Sally Ault was born and raised in San Diego, California and graduated with a degree in Art with an emphasis on 3-dimensional design from San Diego State. Her work there was focused on Weaving, Jewelry Design and Ceramics. During a furniture class, Sally discovered woodturning. After a break of a number of years, she resumed woodturning in 2001.
Sally enjoys all types of wood turning but currently her focus is on lidded containers (especially the sea Urchin series), open bowls, embellished pieces and jewelry.
Sally’s work is shown at the gallery at Studio 38 in Spanish Village Art Center in San Diego, at the Mingei International Folk Art Museum in San Diego’s Balboa Park and at the gift shops at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado and Arrowmont in Gatlinburg Tennessee. She has won a number of awards over the past years at the Design in Wood Show at the Del Mar Fair and at the annual Small Image Show at Spanish Village in San Diego.
Sally has been a demonstrator at the Utah, Honolulu , North Dakota and Wisconsin Symposia, at a number of woodturning clubs and at John C. Campbell Folk School, Arrowmont School of Art and Craft and Marc Adams School. She was a featured demonstrator at the American Association of Woodturners symposium in 2016 , on 2 panels at the 2017 AAW symposium and demonstrated at SWAT in Waco, TX in August of 2017, 2019 and 2022. Sally worked with the young woodturners at the 2022 and 2023 AAW symposia. In the fall of 2013, she was accepted for a 10-week artist in residency program at Anderson Ranch Arts Center.
She is a member of the San Diego Woodturners Association, American Association of Woodturners, Point Loma Artists Association and Spanish Village Art Center in San Diego.
Check out her work on the My Gallery page.
