In this episode, Gabrielle speaks with Kristen Stain about coil-building, community offerings, ancestral knowing and veneration, reverence for the earth, duality, and their WORKING PROCESS.

Kristen Stain is a multidisciplinary artist and designer whose work spans ceramics, illustration, painting, and creative direction. Operating under the name ketchupstain, Kristen's practice is both a production studio and community project. Through ketchupstain, Kristen explores cultural history and envisions future possibilities, creating art, objects, and experiences.

Visit Kristen’s website and Instagram to learn more about their work.

WORKING PROCESS is an offering of conversations with Black women working with and around clay about their work and process by writer & ceramicist, Gabrielle Ione Hickmon. Subscribe to WORKING PROCESS on Substack so you never miss an episode and get transcripts sent directly to your email. Watch conversations on YouTube. Follow WORKING PROCESS on Instagram. Follow Gabrielle on Instagram, TikTok, or Arena, and keep up with her other projects via her website and Substack.

WORKING PROCESS is hosted by Gabrielle Ione Hickmon, produced by Dilemma, and transcribed by Kristin Corry.

In this episode, Gabrielle speaks with Patrice Renee Washington about cultural symbols & identity, research, the language of objects, artifacts, history, reclamation, and her WORKING PROCESS.

Visit Patrice’s website to learn more about her work.

WORKING PROCESS is an archive of Black women working with and around clay stewarded by writer and ceramicist Gabrielle Ione Hickmon. Subscribe to WORKING PROCESS on Substack so you never miss an episode and get transcripts sent directly to your email. Follow WORKING PROCESS on Instagram. Follow Gabrielle on Instagram, TikTok, or Arena, and keep up with her creative practice via her website and Substack.

WORKING PROCESS is hosted by Gabrielle Ione Hickmon, produced by Dilemma, and transcribed by Kristin Corry.

In this episode, Gabrielle speaks with Nala C. Turner about her research into the Black potters and sculptors of the Harlem Renaissance, clay and sculpture as a vehicle for exploring history and intervening in public space, her work as an arts therapist, and her WORKING PROCESS.

Nala C. Turner is a Brooklyn-based ceramics artist, culture worker, and creative art therapist (MPS, LCAT, ATR-BC), working primarily with themes related to race-issues, cultural identity, femininity, social stereotypes, and popular culture perspectives. She has been working with clay for 15 years as a visual artist and educator. Follow Nala on Instagram or visit her website to learn more about her work.

WORKING PROCESS is an archive of Black women working with and around clay stewarded by writer and ceramicist Gabrielle Ione Hickmon. Subscribe to WORKING PROCESS on Substack so you never miss an episode and get transcripts sent directly to your email. Follow WORKING PROCESS on Instagram. Follow Gabrielle on Instagram, TikTok, or Arena, and keep up with her creative practice via her website and Substack.

WORKING PROCESS is hosted by Gabrielle Ione Hickmon, produced by Dilemma, and transcribed by Kristin Corry.

Bisila Noha's WORKING PROCESS. In this episode, Gabrielle speaks with Bisila Noha about heritage, combining throwing & hand building, translation, movement, going inward, research, and her WORKING PROCESS.

Bisila Noha is a Spanish-Equatoguinean London-based ceramic artist, researcher, and writer. With her work, Bisila aims to challenge Western views on art and craft; to question what we understand as productive and worthy in capitalist societies; and to reflect upon the idea of home and oneness pulling from personal experiences in different pottery communities. Follow Bisila on Instagram, or visit her website to learn more about her work.

WORKING PROCESS is an archive of Black women working in, with, and around clay stewarded by writer and ceramicist Gabrielle Ione Hickmon. Subscribe to WORKING PROCESS on Substack so you never miss an episode and get transcripts sent directly to your email. Follow WORKING PROCESS on Instagram. Follow Gabrielle on Instagram, TikTok, or Arena, and keep up with her other projects via her website and Substack.

WORKING PROCESS is hosted by Gabrielle Ione Hickmon, produced by Dilemma, and transcribed by Kristin Corry.