Art that Belongs to a Place
From intimate objects to participatory public work, these projects begin with materials and stories and grow through making, gathering and collaboration.
Ceramics, installations and community projects exploring place, memory, identity, ritual and connection.
The Work goes beyond the Studio
My studio practice moves between functional ceramics, sculptural work, public art and projects made with other people.
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Some pieces begin quietly on the worktable.
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Others require a neighborhood, a crowd, a place or a story.
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The common thread is making as a way of paying attention.
Projects
Turning the Port
A community built installation about place, movement, intention and collective value.
Created in connection with San Pedro and the Port of Los Angeles, Turning the Port uses handmade ceramic vessels and participatory process to explore the people, movement, labor and histories that make the port a living place.
What we bring
A community vessel for memory, affirmation, and what we carry with us.
What We Bring is a collaborative ceramic vessel built from the stories, words and small offerings of the people who participate in it. The project considers what we carry into a place, what we inherit, and what we choose to leave behind. Clay becomes a container for memory, testimony, and collective presence.
What we grow
A project rooted in cultivation, inheritance, and the knowledge held in community.
What We Grow explores the relationship between people, land, food, memory and the knowledge passed from one generation to another. Through ceramic making and community participation, the project creates space to consider what is cultivated, what is inherited and what we choose to nurture forward.
Fortunate Souls
A ceramic meditation on the lives, crossings, and histories held beneath the surface.
Fortunate Souls explores memory, migration, loss, survival and the bodies whose stories are too often reduced to statistics or forgotten altogether. Through ceramic forms, the project considers the emotional and spiritual weight carried by those who make difficult crossings and by those who encounter their aftermath.
Clay can hold a lot
A memory. A place. A ritual. A joke. A family story. A neighborhood.
I'm interested in what happens when ceramics moves beyond the idea of an object and become a way to gather people, hold stories and create connection.
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That can happen around a table.
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It can happen in a studio.
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It can happen on a street corner.​
in the Field
​Waveforms in Clay: From Slab to Vessel
ClayConWest / 2023
Demonstration of slab-built functional forms emphasizing movement, touch and surface development.
​The Clay Kitchen: Creating Space to Make
ClayConWest / 2024
Presentation exploring the development of a public facing private stdio practice within a year round marketplace and the role of creative autonomy in sustaining an artistic career.
Throwing Sh!t! Live
NCECA / 2024
Live demonstration artist participating in a collaborative pottery event focused on process, storytelling and community engagement