Artist Directory

My work explores materials and interactions, tells stories, and moves figurative icons or themes toward abstraction. My practice is iterative, with heavy prototyping and product testing of functional work. Many of my tools and materials I make or prepare myself, including ribs, silkscreens, underglazes, glazes, and natural colorants.

My work spans between functional and sculpture wares, often drawing from forms and textures that feel familiar in nature and invite reflection on personal experiences. I’m fascinated by overlap and harmony—hard and soft, delicate and crude, texture and color—and how contrasting elements can come together to create something cohesive and alive. My practice is rooted in curiosity, and I love exploring a wide range of techniques, from slip casting and large-form building to surface decoration, spray glazing, and custom vinyl design. Whether I’m making or teaching, I aim to bring an encouraging, playful energy that helps others feel confident enough to explore and surprise themselves!

Mud Relics, run by Noni, blends the ethereal and the emotional to produce ceramic pieces that walk the line between everyday and ritual. She has had a life long love affair with the ocean which is evident in her work. With an emphasis on hand building, Noni finds a meditative peace in feeling where the clay takes her. Combining organic movement with intentional detail, her pieces are meant to exist in flow with the lively world around them.

Karli Fairbanks is a multi-disciplinary artist working in design, illustration, murals, fine art, ceramics and songwriting. Her ceramics are a combination of years of illustrative work and a new found curiosity for expressive hand-built forms.

Creating has always been my happy place, and through ceramics I explore creativity with a sense of joy and playfulness. I make functional yet whimsical pieces designed to bring warmth, fun, and happiness into everyday life.

The Society of the Woods is the studio practice of Dan Owen, a Los Angeles-based ceramic artist and maker with over two decades of experience in the toy, game, and film industries. Each piece — whether a hand-built stoneware wall sculpture, a sgraffito-carved fish, or a woodland creature cast in polyresin — draws from a deep well of unnatural history: museum dioramas, bog men, nature books, and the half-remembered landscapes of rural England. The work lives somewhere between folk art and field specimen, shaped by hands that have never entirely left the woods.