Ceramic Art

I am building a charged sculptural universe to explore ritual, summoning, holding. The ceramic sculptures and vessels I create celebrate the alchemical medium and deepen a practice of ancestral memory/remembering, a sensual meditation on the wildness of humanity. My ceramic practice involves deep listening and trust and expands my vocabulary around identity, relationship with nature, and psychological space.

I learned ceramics in June of 2025 as an Artist in Residence at Alchemy Art Center located on San Juan Island, Washington. I had been wanting to build sculptures for some time, and ceramic hand building came quite naturally to me. Throwing on the wheel was a welcome challenge. I fell in love with playing with the Earth, creating, as Mary Oliver puts it in the essay “Staying Alive” from Blue Pastures, “some shapely heat-retaining form[s].” Pictured here, and for sale as listed, are some of those forms.

Spring Collection Coming Soon!

Homeware

Current WIP

mira, age 4. 2025

Kira Joy Williams

Hand built ceramic

approx 12in x 12in x 6in

mira, age 4 is the first part of an installation-memorial I am building to honor the many children being disappeared and murdered around the world. To remember, try to look and try to see. I was drawn to create this sculpture after viewing the image of an x-ray of a Palestinian child's skull with a bullet lodged inside. Her name was Mira, and she was 4 years old.

so you can bloom, 2025.

Kira Joy Williams

Hand built greenware ceramic, red and black iron oxide, blue underglaze, sweet pea flowers, moss

3 x 3 x 1.5 in (approximate measurements)

Follow my journey through the creation and destruction of this sculpture, and my exploration of refusal, sovereignty, and resistance.

show me who you are, an incantation, 2025.

Kira Joy Williams

Hand built glazed ceramic, red and black iron oxide

5.5 x 6 x 7.5

tree woman, 2025.

Kira Joy Williams

Hand built glazed ceramic

2.5 x 3.5 x 5.5 in

submerging, 2025.

Kira Joy Williams

Hand built glazed ceramic, red and black iron oxide

6 x 4 x 5.75 in