The Job of Making Others use their Imaginations  ceramic sculpture  22 x 11 x 11″  1150

Ceramics has developed with humanity and carries a catalog of cultural and ethnographic data.  This wealth of symbolic and semiotic language fuels my process engaging not just the craft of ceramics but its potential as a tool for cross-cultural dialog.

Artists and craftspeople are filters, that selectively collect and distill ideas, images, and artifacts ultimately producing an output that energizes communities. I am fascinated with phenomenon and the practice of ideation my work pursues established conventions of the ceramic media in an attempt to discover how they attained esteem.

Photography courtesy of Joseph Levac

Drew Ippoliti