VISITING ARTISTS
Our visiting artist program is an open-ended program for emerging, growing, and/or established artists. We provide the necessary support for whatever kind of visiting artist residency the artist is looking for. This could look like many things, just get in touch if you're interested in visiting! We host artist visits of any length from a weekend to months.
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The intent of this program is to facilitate collaboration, learning, and growth between artists at all stages in their ceramic practice.
NOVEMBER
2025
Emily Counts was born in Seattle, WA and currently lives and works in Tacoma. She creates ceramic and mixed-media sculptures that engage with craft traditions while exploring femininity, matriarchal identity, memory, and nature. This work is personal, rooted in a habit of combing through memories, but ultimately suggesting open-ended narratives and creating space for the viewer’s own stories and meaning. Electricity, illumination, and translucent materials are often incorporated into ceramic pieces as she aims to merge nostalgia and historical aesthetics with a futuristic sensibility.
Her work has been exhibited in institutions including the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Torrance Art Museum in California, Oregon Contemporary in Portland, OR, and in Washington at the Museum of Museums, the Bellevue Arts Museum, and the Museum of Northwest Art. She received her BFA from the California College of the Arts and has received grants from Artist Trust, The Ford Family Foundation, the Oregon Arts Commission, and the
Regional Arts & Culture Council. She was an artist in residence at Raid Projects in Los Angeles, Plane Space in New York, and at the Varda Artists Residency Program in Sausalito, CA. Counts has works in the collection of the Port of Seattle. She is currently represented in Oregon by Nationale and in Washington by studio e gallery.
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OCTOBER
2025
Through depictions of industrial and domestic objects, Iolanda Palmer’s artworks explore the complex issues of class, capitalism and societal excess. Trained originally as a ceramicist, Io uses a variety of processes and materials including fabric, wood and video all of which inform her current ceramic work.
Palmer has been featured in several exhibitions of note. Some include the Dakar-International Arts Biennial, Dakar Senegal; York College, CUNY, Jamaica, NY; Rush Gallery, New York City, NY and the Boise Art Museum. She currently has an installation hanging at the PDX (Gate E Extension). She was awarded a Fulbright Nehru Research Grant to India, 2019 and an Artist Trust GAP Grant, 2021 and an Artist Trust Fellowship, 2023.
Io holds and MFA from the University of Arizona, Tucson and a BFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. She is Professor of Art at Washington State University, Pullman.
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AUGUST
2025
Grace Potter (b. 1996, Knoxville, TN) is an artist primarily working with clay based in Mendocino, CA. Grace received her BFA in Ceramics with minors in Art History and Anthropology from the University of Colorado, Boulder (2018). In addition to an active studio practice, she works as a teacher and ceramic technician for Mendocino Community College.
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JULY
2025
Gloria Jue-Youn Han makes art that investigates how traditions are altered, adapted and created anew by diasporic peoples. She draws connections between her experience as a first-generation Korean Canadian daughter of immigrants and the ways in which traditions survive through tumultuous events in history. In this connection, she is able to use craft to communicate moments of extreme care, commitment, intimacy and love.  
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Han received the BC Arts Council Early Career Development Grant to partake in a mentorship with master potter Clay Jung Hong Kim and potter Sylvia Kim to increase the rigour in her ongoing studies in traditional Korean ceramics. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, and her Masters of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Gloria Han lives in Coquitlam and teaches at Langara College, Vancouver, and Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver.
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@gloriajyhan​
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APRIL & MAY
2025
Chanda Zea is an artist, mentor and maker with a deep love of building community through clay. The ceramic works she creates are a component of her holistic approach to life. “Every action we take, every material we use, has an impact on our individual lives as well as the planetary whole. I continue to explore and expand what that means to my artistic practice. How do concept and process collide to create beauty and sustainability?”
Chanda resides in the damp lush forests of the Pacific Northwest on the traditional lands of the Coast Salish peoples and is the Instructional Technician in Ceramics at the University of Washington, mentoring students, repairing equipment and contributing to the 3d4m community. She has chaired the NCECA Green Task Force since 2022, working with the larger ceramics community to share information and best practices for greater environmental sustainability in the ceramic arts.
Chanda’s studio practice ranges from large installations to intimate functional objects. Her work is a continuous balance between “less is more” and the quiet joy found in the repetitive process of squishing clay between her fingers. She seeks to use ceramic materials that would otherwise
be deposited in a landfill and is continually looking for ways to merge her interests in reducing waste, wildly tangled gardens, nourishing food and handmade tools for living.
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Deb Schwartzkopf is a Seattle based studio potter, instructor, and author of Creative Pottery, published in June of 2020. Her studios, Rat City Studios and Rain City Clay cultivate imagination, bring people together, and facilitate a space where everyone has a place to foster their creative side.
With over 15 years of experience, a Master’s of Fine Art at Penn State, artwork included in collections such as the Kamm Teapot Foundation, San Angelo Museum, and the WA State Arts Collection, numerous publications including Ceramic Monthly, Pottery Making Illustrated, and Studio Potter Magazine, she has been recognized and honored in her career as a maker.
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PAST VISITING ARTISTS
MARCH &
APRIL 2025
Hanako O’Leary is a craft based sculptor and installation artist. She looks to Japanese folk traditions of the Setonaikai Islands as a basis for her artwork. Through hand made objects, installations, and storytelling, Hanako explores this relationship with her matriarchal lineage and the complexities of feminine love, sexuality, and power.
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Her major artistic accomplishments include solo shows in galleries such as Method, Edmonds Community College, King Street Station, and most recently Frye art Museum and Gallery 4Culture. Major awards include the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture City Artist Grant, Bernie Funk Fellowship, Robert B. McMillen Grant, Neddy Award Finalist and Artist Trust Fellowship to name a few.
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JANUARY &
FEBRUARY
2025
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Jia Jia is an interdisplinary artist based in Seattle. Through the exploration of different medias, her work demonstrates how individuals continuously redefine their identity and value in a world shaped by globalization and migration under the pressure of societal norms. Jia Jia received an MFA in 3D4M from the University of Washington (2021) and a BFA in Ceramics and Product Design from China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (2016). Her work has been exhibited at venues including SOIL, Root Division, 4C Gallery, Field Projects Gallery, Woman Made Gallery, Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, and Henry Art Gallery. Her work has been featured in publications such as ArtConnect, ArtMaze Magazine, and The Seattle Times. She also has been artist in residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Chautauqua Institution, and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center. She is also a member of SOIL Gallery in Seattle.
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DECEMBER
2024
Anika Makor is a Texas-born ceramic artist living in Seattle, Washington. Anika graduated from the University of North Texas, and received her BFA in ceramics and painting. She moved to Seattle in 2018, and has been teaching clay classes in the greater Seattle area for the last 5 years. Anika maintains a full-time studio practice creating wheel thrown and handbuilt functional pottery out of her studio in Georgetown. She combines her love of clay and figure painting in her colorful painted pots. The shapes of her pots imitate the lumpiness of the human body, and her surfaces come alive with expressive and flamboyant heroines. Anika’s narratives of romance and queer domestic comforts are informed by her affinity for the pageantry of the rodeo, and the symbolism of the glamorous and feminine cowgirl.
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OCTOBER &
NOVEMBER
2024
Lukas Easton received a Masters of Fine Arts in ceramics at the NYSCC at Alfred University, in the spring of 2021. After completing his MFA, he became a long-term resident at Red Lodge Clay Center and is slated to teach at Rochester Institute of Technology this spring.
Easton’s practice addresses the noise of contemporary information, exploring themes often overlooked by popular culture. By employing concepts of glitch and abjection, he creates moments of clarity and reflection. Using representations of time—such as decay and growth—his work invites contemplation of our complex world. Through various mediums, including ceramics and video, Easton critiques human behavior while fostering personal responsibility and compassion, encouraging viewers to connect their experiences with his narrative-driven forms.
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@lukaseaston​
AUGUST &
SEPTEMBER
2024
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Ling Chun (秦玲) is a multimedia artist from Hong Kong. Her work represents the coexistence of multicultural identities within a single society. She earned her her MFA in ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design in 2016. Chun has participated in numerous residencies and has been recognized for her work internationally. She is currently based in Seattle. ​
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Chun’s practice focuses on creating artifacts which speak about history with a contemporary sensibility. In her execution and conceptualization of creative projects, Chun brings together her knowledge of Chinese culture and her contemporary artistic vision. Chun aspires to create public artifacts to bring relevance to historical storytelling in her future artistic pursuits.
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JUNE & JULY
2024
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Jeff Campana is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Kennesaw State University outside of Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to his arrival at Kennesaw, he was a long-term Artist-in-Residence at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts. Additionally, he has been a short term artist at Studio 740 and Red Lodge Clay Center.
He has taught at Bennington College, the University of Louisville, and Indiana University Southeast. He holds an MFA from Indiana University Bloomington, and a BFA from University of Wisconsin – Whitewater. His work appears in numerous publications and he exhibits across the United States.
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@jeffcampana
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Day Brièrre is a Haitian-American ceramicist and illustrator based in Brooklyn NY. Her illustrations draw inspiration from Afro-indigenous myths.
Her sculptural work focuses on building vessels that dissect narratives of folklore, homeland, and traditional Haitian spiritual systems. She earned a bachelor's degree in Art at Florida International University.
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