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Naomi Clement — Feast of Pottery 2024
Naomi Clement is a Canadian artist and educator who explores ideas of home and belonging through the powerful lens of functional ceramics. She received her MFA from Louisiana State University in 2017, and has participated in residencies, given lectures and workshops, and exhibited her work across North America. Naomi was named a 2017 Emerging Artist by Ceramics Monthly magazine, and she was a 2019 Summer Artist in Residence at the Archie Bray Foundation. Additionally, Naomi is an active member of the Canadian ceramics collective Make and Do, which advocates and promotes Canadian ceramics on the international stage. She works out of her home studio in Stratford, Ontario.
In her work, Naomi uses text elements from old family correspondence and ephemera to explore her history and connect past and present. Using this text, Naomi collaborates with the past, to create objects for the present, and help the ephemeral endure.
The resulting pots ask to be noticed and examined; they convey a sense of a life lived, and of a life still to be lived; they are about making connections and wanting to make connections. A snapshot of the journey, each pot is a tether that connects maker and user—a memory bound in mud-made-stone for years to come.
In her work, Naomi uses text elements from old family correspondence and ephemera to explore her history and connect past and present. Using this text, Naomi collaborates with the past, to create objects for the present, and help the ephemeral endure.
The resulting pots ask to be noticed and examined; they convey a sense of a life lived, and of a life still to be lived; they are about making connections and wanting to make connections. A snapshot of the journey, each pot is a tether that connects maker and user—a memory bound in mud-made-stone for years to come.
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Naomi sent us 5 pieces that will appear here on Sunday October 13th, 2024
at 1:30 pm NDT (Noon Eastern).