Clay in Color

By Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy and Alex Anderson

What's Clay in Color about?

Join curator Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy and ceramic artist Alex Anderson as they discuss the aesthetics of optimism in contemporary ceramics. Humor, cuteness, and the decorative will be jumping off points for conversations with young professionals of color who are shaping the field today.

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Clay in Color episodes:

03.27.2024
The Ceramic Still Life with Ryan Flores
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, he talks about vegetation as an extension of his formal exploration of the figurative, the...
01.24.2024
On Giving Life to “The Girls” with Murjoni Merriweather
Today, on Clay in Color, we chat with Murjoni Merriweather. She creates stylized figurative sculptures that celebrate Black beauty. In our interview, she talks about her unconventional approach to sculpting and materials, mainly using synthetic hair and glitter, and the...
01.10.2024
Following Your Guts with Roxanne Jackson
Today, on Clay in Color, we chat with Roxanne Jackson. She creates fantastical sculptures that combine beauty and horror. In our interview, she talks about finding beauty in unexpected places, her fascination with sci-fi and horror imagery as a way...
12.19.2023
The Garden as a Second Studio with Syd Carpenter
Today, on Clay in Color, we chat with Syd Carpenter. She creates sculptures that center the geopolitical history and social mobility of Black farmers and gardeners in America. In our interview, she provides affirmations and advice on not ignoring our...
11.30.2023
On Dancing with Clay with Maya Vivas
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. In our interview, we talk about Vivas’s background as a performer and how that influences...
11.15.2023
On Yassifying Sculptures and Displays with Joel Gaitan
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Joel Gaitan. He creates personified earthenware vessels that mirror his friends, family, and himself while drawing from the ceramic language of early Mesoamerican ceramics. In our interview, we talk about how...
11.08.2023
Season 3 of Clay in Color!
Angelik and Alex are back for a new series of Clay in Color! Season three features eighteen interviews with emerging and established artists of color who are shaping the field of ceramics today. New episodes drop every other Wednesday starting...
11.01.2022
Envisioning Latine Futurism with Kristy Moreno
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 social, political, and personal narratives. In our interview, we talk about ideas of futurism,...
10.25.2022
The Joy of Missing Out with Ashwini Bhat
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 talk about rituals in her life and practice, having a nomadic lifestyle before moving...
10.19.2022
If Dinosaurs Had Instagram with Chanakaran “Punch” Semachai
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Chanakaran “Punch” Semachai. She creates boldly colored and patterned vessels and sculptures of dinosaurs that poke fun at the human condition. In our first international interview, we talk about how isolation as...
10.11.2022
Not a Rocketship but a Rollercoaster with Grant Levy-Lucero
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 products. In our interview, we talk about his first time visiting Seoul, how he started working...
10.04.2022
Defining an Asian American Experience with Beth Lo
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 children. In our interview, we talk about childhood as a crucial moment for imagination, turning...
09.27.2022
On Building a Meaningful Legacy with Roberto Lugo
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 iconography and references to historical ceramics. In our interview, we talk about making Lugo’s legacy about...
09.20.2022
On the Complexity of Diasporic Living with Anina Major
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Anina Major. She creates ceramic sculptures, mixed media installations, videos, and performances about the relationship between self and place from a Caribbean diasporic lens. In our interview, we talk about how she...
09.13.2022
Embracing the Decorative with George Rodriguez
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with George Rodriguez. He creates lavishly adorned figurative sculptures that aim to build community. In our interview, we talk about the charged history of the “decorative,” how he sees flowers as an accessible...
09.06.2022
On Crafting a Personal Mythology with Karla Ekatherine Canseco
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Karla Ekatherine Canseco. She creates grotesque sculptures that explore identity, home, and the body. In our interview, we talk about the Xoloitzcuintle (hairless dog) as a guide in Mexican mythology and in...
08.30.2022
Collecting Human Experiences with Melvino Garretti
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 suburban anthropologist.” In our interview, we talk about his thoughts on why his work is...
08.23.2022
Printing a World of One’s Own with Jolie Ngo
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, we talk about how she became interested in the vessels as her go-to form...
08.17.2022
On Breaking Out As A Self-Taught Artist with Bony Ramirez
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 diversity of contemporary Caribbean life with the underlying tension of colonialism and its effects. In...
08.09.2022
Clay in Color Season 2!
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 of color who are shaping the field of ceramics today. New episodes drop on Tuesdays...
11.02.2021
Creating Space to Dream with Yvette Mayorga
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Yvette Mayorga. She creates ceramic sculptures and acrylic paintings that resemble delectable cakes and pastries that subversively critique the idea of the American Dream. In our interview, we talk about Mayorga’s discovery...
10.26.2021
The Secret Life of Furries with Linda Lopez
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Linda Lopez. She creates playful ceramic sculptures of dust that, while abstract, recall both living creatures and inanimate objects. In our interview, we talk about Lopez’s parents’ role in instilling a sense...
10.19.2021
This Is Not a Shoe with Diana “Didi” Rojas
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 interview, we talk about seeing her shoe sculptures as portraits of the wearer and a...
10.12.2021
World-building and the Reality of Fantasy with Amia Yokoyama
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-building. In our interview, we talk about the richness of fantasy as a space of creativity...
10.05.2021
On Taking Up Space with Sydnie Jimenez
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Sydnie Jimenez. She creates ceramics of Black and Brown figures with distinctive attitudes and personal styles. In our interview, we talk about taking up space and wanting to create accessibility while protecting...
09.28.2021
Prioritizing Little Known Histories with Natalia Arbelaez
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Natalia Arbelaez. She creates humorous sculptures in clay that explore Latinx identities as affected by colonialism. In our interview, we talk about her research into the Muisca people, her indigenous ancestors in...
09.21.2021
Between Vulnerability and Pain with Narumi Nekpenekpen
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Narumi Nekpenekpen. She creates small-scale hyper-detailed tenderly-rendered sculptures that speak to vulnerability. In our interview, we talk about translating negative and positive thoughts and emotions into clay and how her sculptures are...
09.14.2021
Choosing Butterflies and Rainbows with Alake Shilling
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Alake Shilling. She creates fantastical clay sculptures and paintings of cute animals that reflect the emotional diversity of humanity. In our interview, we talk about having the courage to be an artist...
09.07.2021
Toward an Authentic Self in Clay with Sharif Farrag
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Sharif Farrag. He creates bold psychedelic and subversive ceramic sculptures that tap psychological depths to manifest a multitude of emotions, from laughter to pain. In our interview, we talk about Farrag’s experience...
08.31.2021
Seeking home and culture through time and space with Maryam Yousif
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Maryam Yousif. She creates tender and playful contemporary interpretations of ancient Mesopotamian figurines and objects. In our interview, we talk about how these sculptures help her learn about herself and strengthen her...
08.24.2021
On Becoming a Future Ancestor with Salvador Jimenez-Flores
Today on Clay in Color, we chat with Salvador Jimenez-Flores. He creates humorous and anthropomorphic ceramic sculptures that argue for a better future for the Latinx community in the US and protest oppression. In our interview, we talk about the...
08.18.2021
The Propaganda of Rococo Ceramics and Cuteness with Emily Yong Beck
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. In our interview we talk about the fallacy of the Rococo as the pinnacle of sophistication...
08.13.2021
Clay in Color Season 1 Trailer
Join curator Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy and ceramic artist Alex Anderson as they discuss the aesthetics of optimism in contemporary ceramics. Humor, cuteness, and the decorative will be jumping off points for conversations with young professionals of color who are shaping the...

What's Clay in Color about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Clay in Color episodes:

The Ceramic Still Life with Ryan Flores

On Giving Life to “The Girls” with Murjoni Merriweather

Following Your Guts with Roxanne Jackson

The Garden as a Second Studio with Syd Carpenter

On Dancing with Clay with Maya Vivas

On Yassifying Sculptures and Displays with Joel Gaitan

Season 3 of Clay in Color!

Envisioning Latine Futurism with Kristy Moreno

The Joy of Missing Out with Ashwini Bhat

If Dinosaurs Had Instagram with Chanakaran “Punch” Semachai

Not a Rocketship but a Rollercoaster with Grant Levy-Lucero

Defining an Asian American Experience with Beth Lo

On Building a Meaningful Legacy with Roberto Lugo

On the Complexity of Diasporic Living with Anina Major

Embracing the Decorative with George Rodriguez

On Crafting a Personal Mythology with Karla Ekatherine Canseco

Collecting Human Experiences with Melvino Garretti

Printing a World of One’s Own with Jolie Ngo

On Breaking Out As A Self-Taught Artist with Bony Ramirez

Clay in Color Season 2!

Creating Space to Dream with Yvette Mayorga

The Secret Life of Furries with Linda Lopez

This Is Not a Shoe with Diana “Didi” Rojas

World-building and the Reality of Fantasy with Amia Yokoyama

On Taking Up Space with Sydnie Jimenez

Prioritizing Little Known Histories with Natalia Arbelaez

Between Vulnerability and Pain with Narumi Nekpenekpen

Choosing Butterflies and Rainbows with Alake Shilling

Toward an Authentic Self in Clay with Sharif Farrag

Seeking home and culture through time and space with Maryam Yousif

On Becoming a Future Ancestor with Salvador Jimenez-Flores

The Propaganda of Rococo Ceramics and Cuteness with Emily Yong Beck

Clay in Color Season 1 Trailer