ARTIST STATEMENT

Keiko Ashida is a contemporary ceramic artist, Clay Art Center Artist Program artits, and instructor. She studied pottery in Mashiko, Japan and received her BFA at the Musashino Art University in Tokyo. Keiko continued to pursue pottery through a pottery institute followed by an apprenticeship in Mashiko, a traditional pottery town in Japan, where she studied with master potters. She has had numerous solo exhibits in Japan, and has been teaching at Clay Art Center since shortly after she arrived in New York with her husband. Working predominantly in Cone 6 porcelain, Keiko brings an earth-rich palette to her traditional wheelthrown forms.