About the artist
Hello! My name is Hope and I am a ceramic artist who makes art with drawings/paintings/ and photos on ceramic forms about change and defining what home really is. Whether home is something built with the people around you, a specific place, or one’s own self. As a kid, home was the biggest feeling I was trying to understand. Now I can finally dive into my emotions and experiences with my work. I typically use thrown ceramic forms as my canvas and a hand-built element (the chains) to the exterior as an added extension of what I am saying in each piece. I use 3 different clay body including white stoneware, reclaim clay, and porcelain with underglaze and glaze. I believe that I can break barriers of what it means to be an artist by making art that relates to experiences people have also gone through as well as myself.
Art employment experience
Teaching artist for Underglaze Ceramic class 2026 Fall , Abington Art Center
Jenkintown, PA
Studio assistantship For Heesoo Lee’s
ceramic workshop
2026 May , Penland School of Craft.
Bakersville, NC
Contract Teaching artist for The Clay
Mobile Program
2024-2026, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia PA
Studio assistantship Juan Barroso’s
ceramic workshop
2025 July, Penland School of Craft.
Bakersville, NC
Intro to Wheel-throwing Ceramics
Teacher at Historic Yellow Springs.
2025, Chester Springs, PA
Teacher for Ceramics Summer Camp at
Wayne Arts Center
2025 June—-2025 August, Wayne, PA.
Studio assistantship for Adrienne Eliades’
Ceramic Workshop
2024 September, Penland School of Craft.
Bakersville, NC
Teaching assistant for workshops/events
2024—2026, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia,
PA
Preschool Photographer for Lifetouch
2024, Bensalem PA
Shop tech Intern for The Clay studio
2024, Philadelphia PA
Solo Exhibitions
2023 OCF coffeehouse show, South street Philadelphia, PA
Group Exhibitions
2026 “Now, One With Everyone!” Show at Ice Box Project Space Philadelphia, PA
2026 “Show and Tell” show at Penland School of Craft in Bakersville NC
2025 “Show and Tell” show at Penland School of Craft in Bakersville NC
2025 “Hang in There” show at Space 1026 in Philadelphia PA
2024 “Show and Tell” at Penland School of Craft in Bakersville NC
2024 Senior Thesis Show, Icebox project space Crane Arts Building Philadelphia, PA
2024 Community Show, The Clay Studio Philadelphia, PA
2024 Art Unleashed Show, 320 S broad St Student center, Philadelphia PA
2023 Senior in progress Thesis Show, Hamilton Arronson Gallery Philadelphia, PA
2022 Junior Projects Exhibition Show, Fine Arts Gallery 6, Philadelphia, PA
2022 Seasonal Reflections: Summer, Photo lounge Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2022
2021 First Look, Fine Arts Gallery 8, Philadelphia, PA