Featured Artist of the month
Each month we feature one artist from our Community Artists page here on our website, in our monthly newsletter, on Instagram, and on Facebook. We will also host an artist’s talk with them over Zoom so our audience can get to know them better. Check back at the beginning of each month for a new artist to learn about. And view artists from past months here.
May 2025: Kayla Noble
We are very happy to introduce Kayla Noble as our Featured Artist of May! Read on to learn about Kayla and to see a selection of her artwork. And mark your calendars for an artist’s talk with Kayla on Zoom on Tuesday, May 27th at 1:00 PM Eastern Time. Click here to register ahead of time on Zoom.
About the Artist
Kayla Noble is a second generation potter, born and raised in New York's Hudson Valley. She received her BFA in Ceramics from SUNY New Paltz in 2015. She has completed several artist residencies, including Taos Clay (Taos, NM 2015-2016) and acted at the woodfire resident artist at The Clay Studio of Missoula (Missoula, MT 2023-2025) where she leads large scale community anagama firings.
Artist’s Statement
"My relationship with clay is deep. It is both romantic and empirical. I feel connected to the materials I use to form my work and the trees used to fire it. Understanding these materials and processes on a technical level opens the door for a transcendent experience where gut and intuition take control. In a world often governed by precision and uniformity, my pursuit of wood-fired pottery is an homage to the unpredictable, the primal, and the beautifully imperfect.
“My experience studying in Aix-en-Provence with the Leo Marchutz School of Painting & Drawing in 2013 had a deep and lasting impact on my life and studio practice. Many of the motifs we studied in the literature we read and the landscapes we painted have continued to show up in my work throughout the years. From emotions to formal compositions, these ideas dance their way throughout my work, often acting as a cornerstone for when my practice needs grounding. One poem in particular, Meditations at Lagunitas, by Robert Hass, has remained particularly close to my heart. The way John and Alan taught us to analyze the structure of landscape through mark-making and color influenced my understanding of formal composition in both 2-D and 3-D rendering.”
Selected Work
Follow
Instagram: www.instagram.com/kaylanobleceramics
Website: www.KaylaNoble.com
Artist’s Talk on Zoom
Mark your calendars for an artist’s talk with Kayla on Zoom on Tuesday, May 27th at 1:00 PM Eastern Time. Click here to register ahead of time on Zoom.
Previous Featured Artists
To view featured artists from past months, click here.
April 2025: Michèle Hénot Gasparach
March 2025: Ciara Ruddock
February 2025: Barry Hart
December 2024/January 2025: Alan Roberts
November 2024: Ben Haggard
October 2024: Amelia Myre
September 2024: Becky Hagenston
August 2024: Paul Umbarger
June/July 2024: Featured Exhibition in Aix-en-Provence
May 2024: Sharon Rawlins
April 2024: Kate Butler
March 2024: Pauline Bétrancourt
February 2024: Jenna Grotelueschen
January 2024: Mary Leone Duffy
December 2023: Elizabeth Ivers
November 2023: Cole Carothers
October 2023: Grace Darden
September 2023: King David
August 2023: Chris Coffey
July 2023: Jim Toub
June 2023: Jennifer Neel
May 2023: Jan Brogan
April 2023: Sophia Hall
March 2023: Lucy Clare Spooner
February 2023: Samantha Van Heest
December 2022: Hilary Stein
November 2022: Nick Cruz Velleman
October 2022: Miranda Blas
September 2022: Samuel Bjorklund