Emma Konrad is a B.F.A. graduate from Minneapolis College of Art and Design where she majored in Drawing and Painting and Minored in Teaching Artistry. Emma has been teaching ceramics for 2 years, working with both adults and children in the metropolitan community. While Emma’s work can be functional, she is also interested in the nonfunctional where she incorporates her background in oil painting with ceramic substrates.

Kim, of Imokim Pottery, is a Minneapolis based ceramicist. She strives to create functional art that is meant to be seen and used everyday. With a BFA in fashion design from the Fashion Institute of Technology, she is drawn to form, texture and functionality. Most of her pieces are manipulated, painted, and carved, at the greenware stage, to create new textures and patterns.

Melissa is a B.F.A graduate from UMN with an emphasis in ceramic sculpture in 2019. Since graduating, Melissa has transitioned her practice into smaller and more functional based work under the name Keeping It Together Pottery. Her work varies with not only different inlay and sgraffito techniques, but also varying forms and altered forms. She does like her ceramic name says, whatever helps her keep it together.

Ralph Nuara began making pottery while attending Rhode Island School of Design where he received a BFA in Textiles in 2003. He continued his pottery practice while working in NYC as a designer and buyer in the textiles and home furnishings industry. After three years of designing full time he decided to dedicate more time to hands-on making in the studio. Before relocating to Minneapolis in 2008 he has moved about studying and making pottery at studios in RI, NY, and IL. He is continually exploring the relationships between function, form, and surface to keep his pieces fresh and his time in the studio challenging. He draws inspiration from a wide variety of sources ranging from traditional Japanese folk pottery and textiles to Abstract Expressionist painting. He makes pieces with the intention that they be used regularly and strongly feels that a broken pot has fulfilled its role better than one which has never been used.