naomi peterson | ceramics

Cups for Y'all Feature: Fado + Flame 🔥🔴⚔️ Where flame meets feeling, this week’s featured artists carry the same sense of longing found in Portuguese craft.🏺🌎🇵🇹 Inspired by Fado—the soulful music of lost love and melancholy born in 19th-century Lisbon—these vessels echo that spirit, their silver finishes and red glazes burning with an intensity that is more felt than made. Born and raised in rural Indiana, ceramic artist Justin Quaid Grubb (@justinquaid ) earned his MFA in Ceramics from the famed Rhode Island School of Design. His interdisciplinary practice draws on consumer culture and queer cinema to shape his concept-driven, otherworldly work. Justin currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Stetson University. Cross-disciplinary artist Everett Hoffman (@everetthoffman ), based in Austin, Texas, is a 2024 Art Jewelry Forum Young Artist Award finalist whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. His practice explores ideas of protection and iconographic communication through illuminated objects, sculptural forms, and body adornment. Based in New York, ceramic artist Mark Tarabula (@marktarabula ) currently serves as Studio Manager at the Saratoga Clay Arts Center. Mark uses color intentionally, referencing associations with gender and identity. His simplified forms create complex silhouettes, with an ongoing tension between ambiguity and individuality. Former HCCC resident artist Naomi Peterson (@n.ceramic ) creates playful objects that invite consideration beyond the inanimate, blending bright colors and frolicsome patterns to explore the emotive potential of things. During her time in Houston, Naomi taught at the Glassell School of Art and Art League Houston, alongside her studio practice. She is currently based in Kansas City, Missouri. Part exhibition, part shopping experience, “Cups for Y’all” is on view now through June 6! Media from top left to bottom right: 1. Justin Quaid Grubb, “Housework in Black 004,” 2026. SOLD 2. Everett Hoffman, “Stainless Vessel I,” 2025. $475 3. Mark Tarabula, “4 red one,” 2026. SOLD 4. Naomi Peterson, “Asterisk Muggie,” 2026. SOLD

Sweet bowls (and muggies!) heading to @nceca next week, find them @kcurbanpotters at the expo hall ❤️

Naomi Peterson (she/her) @n.ceramic from Kansas City, MO will have her work in the NCECA Detroit gallery Expo with KC Urban Potters. Naomi’s voluminous forms are inspired by indulgent confections and elaborate garments. We can’t wait to see Naomi’s selection of dotty and colorful pots for NCECA. 🎂 🌺 @kcurbanpotters will be in the @nceca Gallery Expo March 24-27 at Huntington Place Convention Center in Detroit, MI. The Gallery Expo is free and open to the public (you do not need an NCECA pass to enter the Gallery Expo). See you there! #nceca #nceca2026 #ncecaexpo #ncecadetroit 📷Photo credit for Naomi’s headshot: Jeff Cochran

Charm necklace is my whole personality now After getting one from @hannah.faas last NCECA and wearing it everyday I had to make one. Good Soup/Garden Theme 🍅🫛🧄🥕🍄‍🟫 Domestic porcelain fired to cone 10 with @amacobrent SMUGS and Velvet underglaze with a studio clear glaze

Gigantonormous muggies in the works for @nceca ⭐️ Catch me @kcurbanpotters in the Expo Hall in Detroit!

It’s been a wonderful start to the year and I won’t say I’m sorry for not posting for a while (though I have missed y’all on here ❤️) January has been full of studio days, rock climbing, spending time with friends and most importantly managing stress and energy levels. Now, I’m working on finishing pieces headed for @nceca where I’ll be showing with @kcurbanpotters in the expo hall. I’m making some of the biggest mugs I’ve ever made and a bit nervous and a lot excited for new possibilities ❤️

Sweet lil jar makes me think of a game berry power-up 🍓 thinking about sugar jars 🍭

Installing my show "Oops, All Cake" this weekend @giantrunt in Fort Worth, TX 🍰 So much of this work I've been developing for almost 5 years and is a culmination of my love of Thing Theory, Sensory Ethnography, and how identity is created/consumed. Hope y’all like sweets ❤️❤️❤️

Made my own nontraditional spin on the teabowl as demos for my @kcclayguild handbuilding classes and one of these cuties will be in KC Clay Guild’s Teabowl National this October ❤️ I love them both so much (especially as a pair!) but which is your fav?

Results from the previous post! This lil cake has been fired to cone 1 🧁 Palette used: 🎀 Soft Pink 🩷 Pink 🪻 Lilac 💙 Royal Blue Last day taking over @speedball_ceramics , it’s been fun y’all! Thank you for all your great questions and kind words ❤️❤️❤️

Many of y’all have asked which underglaze brand I use and honestly I love trying many different materials for my surfaces so I can’t choose just one. That being said, @speedball_ceramics makes some of my favorite colors (!!!lilac!!!) I can’t find anywhere else just like other brands have materials I can’t find elsewhere. I fire my pieces multiple times (honestly usually an average of 4 total times per small piece, 6 for larger) and partly because of this, *I (usually) don’t mix my colors* Using them straight from the bottle for me preserves the vibrancy as well as ensures that I can pretty accurately color match if I need to fix any issues by reapplying underglaze. All of the pieces pictured (except the first teabowl 🥹) needed at least 3 if not more firings to add details or fix issues. Some of y’all have been asking how I get certain colors and honestly, lots and lots of testing but also additional firings that are lower than the first glaze firing. For example, if I fire my fully glazed piece in a cone 5 firing and there are patchy areas in my underglaze, I’ll apply more underglaze and either fire it lower to get brighter results with that color, or to the same temperature I originally glaze fired it to. This way the surface is not only opaque, but I can also get a deeper, richer surface rather than be limited to a flat color.

I love making little pieces like this cake so I can get a sense for how colors and patterns will look on a small scale before translating into large forms 🧁 Follow along this week during my @speedball_ceramics takeover! Also if you’re curious about the @airpen tool, I love mine so much! If you use the code “Naomi” at SilkPaint.com you can get yourself a sweet discount ❤️