Ceramics and Pottery Arts and Resources

 

A diverse collection of vibrant and rich contemporary ceramic arts from women in the Americas, blending aspects of the old and new, while speaking a narrative that encompasses the vast and varied connections between women, nature, and culture.

 

 

Fernanda Quemada of Quemada Ceramica

 

 

Fernanda Quemada contemorary ceramic wares

 

Sculptural bowl  – Fernanda Quemada

 

 

Fernanda Quemada — ‘Cajitas’(ceramic boxes)

 

 

Fernanda Quemada green glazed ceramic bowl green glazed ceramic bowl

 

 

Fernanda Quemada contemporánea ceramica

 

 

 

Quemada Ceramica geometric relief bowls

 

 

 

Angel relief planter with succulants

 

 

Speckled blue and white jug and cups –  Quemada Ceramica

 

 

Speckled bowl set with scrolled lugs – Quemada Ceramica

 

 

Speckled cup and saucer set – Quemada Ceramica

 

 

Sage green pitcher and cups – Quemada Ceramics

 

 

Pressed clay composite red and white tumblers – Quemada Ceramica

 

 

 

 

 

Soledad Christie

San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

 

Soledad Christie was born in Viña del Mar, Chile in 1962 and intitially trained as Graphic Designer She has  been living in San Pedro de Atacama for 27 years. In the midst of the immensity of a powerful territory, I find the strength of an ancestral language, the pre-Columbian pottery. “My work is inserted in this ancestral tradition of pottery. The fundamental thing is the relationship with clay and its qualities. Each piece that model takes me to the next, and it is during the slow process of hand modeling, where I explore, trying to find a rhythm between, volume and shape, stillness and movement, balance and tension.”

“The pieces are modeled by hand, using the old techniques of pinching and lulo. The superficial quality is obtained with the burnished with river stone. The burning is the traditional burning in a hole with guano, combined with a low temperature burning in a gas oven. I recognize the landscape of the Atacama Desert and the Andean Altiplano as part of my own identity. The silence, the solitude, the light and the vastness of this territory have shaped my being and my work. ”

 

 

Elegant conical bowls – Soledad Christie

2019

 

Soledad Christie vase

 

 

Soledad Christie sculptural ceramic form

 

 

Soledad Christie

 

Black Llama ceramic figures – Soledad Christie

 

 

Modernist vessels  – Soledad Christie cceramica trajabos

 

 

Sulptural  vessels by  Soledad Christie

 

 

 

Soledad Christie

 

 

Sculptural vassels  – Soledad Christie

 

 

Off-white assynetrical forms – Soledad Christie

 

 

Soledad Christie

 

 

Soledad Christie

 

 

Ochre and black vases

 

 

Mariana Mae – Easy To Breathe

Ojai, California

Mariana Mae is an artist and visionary native to Coyoacan, Mexico, currently residing in the Valley of Ojai. Easy To Breathe is driven by the reverence of story telling through ancestral craft + honoring the purpose of an object through ritual. Mariana Mae draws inspiration from the freedom of form and the fragile, forgiving elements of our Earth. With deep admiration for primitive pathways, each ceramic piece is individually crafted by hand.

 

 

Mariana Mae jugs and vases

2019

 

Mariana Mae pottery

 

 

Mariana Mae

 

 

Mariana Mae twin handled vases

 

 

Mariana Mae

 

 

Mariana Mae

 

 

Mariana Mae double gourd ceramic vessel

 

 

 

Mariana Mae

 

 

Mariana Mae drinking cups and mugs

 

 

Mariana Mae Mujeres de Barro Clay + Cacao Ceremony (Womens Earthern Ceramony)

 

 

 

Akbal Morena Pez – Akbal.Folk.Ceramics

Argentina/USA

 

 

Ceramc handpainted figure vase – Morena Akbal

 

Akbal Folk Ceramics keeps alive some of the traditional methods of working with clay, just as many of the ancestral cultures once did and are still doing. With admiration and respect, Akbal Morana Pez keeps them as a guide and along with Nature uses them as a source for inspiration. She works with the intentions of love, healing, beauty, peacefulness, equality and freedom while expanding them as an important direction in her creative process to manifest ceramica pieces to connect with the Earth. Pieces that nourish your Soul.

“It is deeply important to me to be able to create with a natural material such as clay. Working the clay allows me to have a strong creative process. I experience a magical dance with the fire as the clay pieces are being transformed. The next day is such a blessing to witness the transformation, those fragile clay pieces transmuted into strong ceramic bodies. While still warm, I enjoy moving the ashes to discover the different colours, different fire stories. I love to use earth to hold my food, its a whole nutrition.”

 

Akbal Morena Pez jug

 

 

Morena Akbal

 

 

 

 

Good morning sunshine

 

 

Bowls with cutouts

 

 

 

Black clay jug

 

 

Large hand-painted face vessel by Akbal Morena Pez

 

 

Geometric design planter – Akbal Morena Pez

 

 

Morena Akbal vase

 

 

Ecchinaceas & Moons vessels

 

 

Wood firing the clay with Akbal Morena Pez.

“Using a traditional way of cooking the mud. A process of 6 hrs approx where I am in total connection with the fire and the pieces that are being transformed. The heat grows slowly and steadily, but after a time it becomes strong, much stronger and constant too. Once baked I feel powerful, totally transformed and blissfully exhausted. It is an extraordinary sensation!”

 

Outdoor kiln construction in California

 

 

 

Hand painted vases with flowers – Morena Akbal

 

 

Akbal Morena Pez figure vase with floral and geometric decoration

 

 

Akbal Morena Pez face vessel

 

 

Akbal Folk Ceramics at an outdoor market

 

 

Figure vase with hat

 

 

Akbal Morena Pez — Womans ceremonial vessel

 

 

 

 

Nora Pineda

 

My work is a reflection of my Mexican roots. The forms are created like stories in the works as I transform and mutate a magical fusion of colors, shapes and a way of life into them. My desire in my clay creations is to express the “Human Spirit” as infinite, all knowing and always in a state of grace.

– Nora Pineda

 

 

‘Duena De la Olla’ – Nora Pineda

Hand Built Ceramic Sculpture

 

 

 

 

‘Yin and Yangs Children’ – Nora Pineda

Hand Built Ceramic Sculpture