Hope Vanessa

Hope is a working Artist from NJ/PA who has a B.F.A. from Uarts in ceramics. She primarily works with imagery on ceramic forms about change and what home means. She attended the Ceramics studio assistantship program at Penland School of Craft in the fall 2024 and summer 2025. Many of her works have been featured in “Show & Tell” at Penland school of Craft, Space 1026 Philly, The Icebox Project Space, Photo Lounge PA, The Clay Studio, Fine Arts Gallery 6&8, as well as the NJ Trenton capital building for the Youth Art Month exhibition. She also has a passion for art galleries and worked in many including the Philadelphia Art Alliance. Currently, she is working in The Clay Studio’s Clay mobile program and Chester Springs PA Studios as a ceramics instructor.