My decorative arts display social status and reflect a culture’s priorities and values.

Cliff Lee transforms Kaolin clay into vessels inspired by Chinese Song Dynasty porcelain while creating Chinese glazes long lost to history. 

I create my work through a lens of empowerment to address contemporary issues faced by women.

Through anthropomorphism and symbolism, I can convey emotions and ideas.

I attempt to use a complex set of references from the history of ceramics and to fuse them with contemporary issues.

Jolie Ngo is a ceramic artist who expands the potential of the vessel form by creating vibrant, “cyborgian” objects that acknowledge past ceramic traditions while advancing forward-thinking practices.

The work touches on ideas of preservation, memory and transformation. Each piece goes through some degree of stress, strain and trauma as a result of the firing process which causes folding, slumping, split seams and even collapse. 

Yelizaveta is an interdisciplinary artist and educator with a background in sculpting the figure.

My interest lies in the prevalence of isolation and disconnection in an increasingly connected world and the impact of loss of intimacy within that space.

Peter Olson is a Philadelphia-based photographer and a self taught ceramicist who makes pieces using an innovative hybrid process.

Influenced heavily by the architecture of her surroundings, ceramicist Roberta Massuch creates functional pottery and sculpture.

Roberto Lugo is an American artist, ceramicist, social activist, spoken word poet, and educator.