Clay in Color
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
The Ceramic Still Life with Ryan Flores
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, on Clay in Color, we chat with Ryan Flores. He creates bountiful sculptures of vegetation in a psychedelic array of glazes. In our interview, h...
On Giving Life to “The Girls” with Murjoni Merriweather
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, on Clay in Color, we chat with Murjoni Merriweather. She creates stylized figurative sculptures that celebrate Black beauty. In our interview, ...
Following Your Guts with Roxanne Jackson
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, on Clay in Color, we chat with Roxanne Jackson. She creates fantastical sculptures that combine beauty and horror. In our interview, she talks ...
The Garden as a Second Studio with Syd Carpenter
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, on Clay in Color, we chat with Syd Carpenter. She creates sculptures that center the geopolitical history and social mobility of Black farmers ...
On Dancing with Clay with Maya Vivas
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Maya Vivas. They create sinuous sculptures that are “moving but not moving” and behave like autonomous bodies...
On Yassifying Sculptures and Displays with Joel Gaitan
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Joel Gaitan. He creates personified earthenware vessels that mirror his friends, family, and himself while drawi...
Season 3 of Clay in Color!
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Angelik and Alex are back for a new series of Clay in Color! Season three features eighteen interviews with emerging and established artists of colo...
Envisioning Latine Futurism with Kristy Moreno
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Kristy Moreno. She creates badass femme and nonbinary figures in clay and paint to examine the bonds between soci...
The Joy of Missing Out with Ashwini Bhat
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Ashwini Bhat. She creates abstract and organic sculptures that reflect on self and place. In our interview, we ta...
If Dinosaurs Had Instagram with Chanakaran “Punch” Semachai
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Chanakaran “Punch” Semachai. She creates boldly colored and patterned vessels and sculptures of dinosaurs tha...
Not a Rocketship but a Rollercoaster with Grant Levy-Lucero
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Grant Levy-Lucero. He creates vessels as canvases for paintings of signs around Los Angeles of recognizable produ...
Defining an Asian American Experience with Beth Lo
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Beth Lo. She creates sculptures and vessels that reflect her Chinese American experience through the motif of chi...
On Building a Meaningful Legacy with Roberto Lugo
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Roberto Lugo. He creates portrait vessels of Black and Brown icons that incorporate graffiti and Hip-Hop iconogra...
On the Complexity of Diasporic Living with Anina Major
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Anina Major. She creates ceramic sculptures, mixed media installations, videos, and performances about the relati...
Embracing the Decorative with George Rodriguez
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with George Rodriguez. He creates lavishly adorned figurative sculptures that aim to build community. In our interview...
On Crafting a Personal Mythology with Karla Ekatherine Canseco
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Karla Ekatherine Canseco. She creates grotesque sculptures that explore identity, home, and the body. In our inte...
Collecting Human Experiences with Melvino Garretti
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Melvino Garretti. He creates mixed media sculptures and paintings that reflect his pursuit as an “urban and sub...
Printing a World of One’s Own with Jolie Ngo
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Jolie Ngo. She creates 3D-printed ceramic vessels that bridge the past and future of ceramics. In our interview, ...
On Breaking Out As A Self-Taught Artist with Bony Ramirez
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Bony Ramirez. He creates mixed media paintings and sculptures of Black and Brown figures that represent the diver...
Clay in Color Season 2!
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Angelik and Alex are back for a new series of Clay in Color! This season they bring you conversations with young professionals and established artists...
Creating Space to Dream with Yvette Mayorga
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Yvette Mayorga. She creates ceramic sculptures and acrylic paintings that resemble delectable cakes and pastries ...
The Secret Life of Furries with Linda Lopez
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Linda Lopez. She creates playful ceramic sculptures of dust that, while abstract, recall both living creatures an...
This Is Not a Shoe with Diana “Didi” Rojas
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Diana “Didi” Rojas. She creates ceramic sculptures of brand-name shoes, from sneakers to high heels. In our i...
World-building and the Reality of Fantasy with Amia Yokoyama
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Amia Yokoyama. She creates clay sculptures and animations that explore reality from the lens of internet world-bu...
On Taking Up Space with Sydnie Jimenez
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Sydnie Jimenez. She creates ceramics of Black and Brown figures with distinctive attitudes and personal styles. I...
Prioritizing Little Known Histories with Natalia Arbelaez
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Natalia Arbelaez. She creates humorous sculptures in clay that explore Latinx identities as affected by coloniali...
Between Vulnerability and Pain with Narumi Nekpenekpen
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Narumi Nekpenekpen. She creates small-scale hyper-detailed tenderly-rendered sculptures that speak to vulnerabili...
Choosing Butterflies and Rainbows with Alake Shilling
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Alake Shilling. She creates fantastical clay sculptures and paintings of cute animals that reflect the emotional ...
Toward an Authentic Self in Clay with Sharif Farrag
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Sharif Farrag. He creates bold psychedelic and subversive ceramic sculptures that tap psychological depths to man...
Seeking home and culture through time and space with Maryam Yousif
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Maryam Yousif. She creates tender and playful contemporary interpretations of ancient Mesopotamian figurines and ...
On Becoming a Future Ancestor with Salvador Jimenez-Flores
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Salvador Jimenez-Flores. He creates humorous and anthropomorphic ceramic sculptures that argue for a better futur...
The Propaganda of Rococo Ceramics and Cuteness with Emily Yong Beck
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Clay in Color we chat with Emily Yong Beck. She creates hand-built vessels based on historical ceramics and sculptures of popular cartoons. I...
Clay in Color Season 1 Trailer
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join curator Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy and ceramic artist Alex Anderson as they discuss the aesthetics of optimism in contemporary ceramics. Humor, cu...