Ceramics

The Ceramics Area at the University of New Mexico supports the development of diverse personal visions

Our work ranges from utilitarian pottery, objects, sculpture, and installations to site-specific works, community-engaged projects, and cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary practice, and honor national curriculum and safety standards.

Special, field-based courses, in time-honored, Pueblo Pottery traditions, are taught and developed by Clarence Cruz of the Oh-kay Owingeh Pueblo. A Luce Foundation Indigenous Knowledge Fellow, Professor Cruz fosters inclusive, cross-cultural dialog, and draws on the singularity of the Southwest.

Ceramics Visiting Artists and Scholars: Cesar Alvarado Dominguez (Mata Ortiz, Mexico), Maude Andrade, Mary Barringer, Chantel Bollinger, Joe Bova, Cynthia Bringle, Margaret Bohls, Mary Joe Bole, Mel Chin, Sonya Clark, Michael Corney, Tom Coleman, Sharbani Das Gupta, Eddie Dominguez, Ron Fondaw, Mary Luis Garcia (Acoma), Gabriela Almeida Gallegos (Mata Ortiz), Margot Geist, Leonora Nango Immundo (Ecuador), Mel Jacobson, Tsehai Jonson, Tom Joyce, Jenny Lind, James Marshall, Jean Sahme Nampeyo (Hopi -Tewa), Hiroshi Ikehata (Japan), Jenny Lind, Avra Leodas, Nobuhu Nagasawa Magarita Paz-Pedro, Angelica Pozo, Matt Repsher, Ilona Romule (Latvia), Abigail Gaulingua Sarayacu (Ecuador), Allison Saar, Robert Saxby, Beverly Semmes, Will Singleton, Rose Simpson (Santa Clara), Rebecca Solnit, Roxanne Swentzel (Santa Clara), Charlene Teters (Spokane Nation), Jared Tso (Dine), Moira Vincentelli (Wales), Alan Walter, WmTTriesch Voelker, Kurt Weiser, Kay Whitney

a potter's hands throwing on the wheel
art student hand building a sculpture out of clay

Ceramics Facilities

Ceramics is housed in three separate buildings. Undergraduate facilities are located in the Art Building and Masley Hall on main campus. Graduate and faculty facilities can be found at the Charles Mattox Research Center, a few blocks off-campus. The Mattox spans over 30,000-square-feet of cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary workspace, dedicated to individual studios, communal areas for large-scale works, exhibition and critique rooms.

Ceramics Faculty