Ceramic Art
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.
New Summer Collection is Here!
Homeware
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
creator, 2025. Kira Joy Williams. Hand built glazed ceramic, 4 x 3 x 3.25 in
leaf tile, 2025. Kira Joy Williams. Hand built glazed ceramic, red and black iron oxide, 5.25 x .25 x 3.25 in
water birth, 2025. Kira Joy Williams. Hand built glazed ceramic, cobalt oxide, 13.5 x 2 x 13.5 in
sun gazer, 2025. Kira Joy Williams. Hand built glazed ceramic, cobalt oxide, approx measurements 13 x 10 x 7.5 in
sun gazer, 2025. Kira Joy Williams. Hand built glazed ceramic, cobalt oxide, approx measurements 13 x 10 x 7.5 in
sun gazer, 2025. Kira Joy Williams. Hand built glazed ceramic, cobalt oxide, approx measurements 13 x 10 x 7.5 in
rising, 2025. Kira Joy Williams. Hand built glazed ceramic, red and black iron oxide, 13.5 x 9 x 14.5 in
rising, 2025. Kira Joy Williams. Hand built glazed ceramic, red and black iron oxide, 13.5 x 9 x 14.5 in
rising, 2025. Kira Joy Williams. Hand built glazed ceramic, red and black iron oxide, 13.5 x 9 x 14.5 in