Portfolio Review: Ceramic Artist Michelle Erickson Shares The Stories Behind Her Favorite Works
Glazed beauty from her museum exhibitions to Nike projects.

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Do not underestimate the ceramic work of Michelle Erickson, both in its technical construction and its conceptual meaning. Having completed a three-month artist residency at The Victoria and Albert Museum and done multiple projects for Nike, she's made her work known beyond the very personal and researched place it comes from. Her pieces tell historical stories about social, political, and environmental issues that are timeless, commenting on the human spirit and documenting it all on her blog. The stories behind the stories are just as exciting, we promise.
Portfolio Review: Ceramic Artist Michelle Erickson Shares The Stories Behind Her Favorite Works
London Clay Skulls

Nike London Jug

V&A Nike

Pectin Shell Teapot

Shell Pickle

Paradise Lost

Weapon of Choice

Octopus Junk

Timepeace

Timepeace
"Timepeace is 21st century abolitionist protest on child soldiering and slavery. I recreated this creamware jug referencing a typical export of 18th century Liverpool a major slave port accounting for over a million Africans carried across the Atlantic by British slavers."
MOCK/BITE Southwest School of Art
Photo Credit: Gavin Ashworth NY
Potters Field

Made in China

Liberty- 2001

Fossil Teapot

Virginia

Green-aid Squirrel
