The Spaces We Hold
The staff at JP Clay & Create hold this space for community to gather and bring creative visions to life. In this exhibition, they explore the ideas of space, how we inhabit it, how we make it, and how we fill it. Join us in the first 3D exhibition at the Joy Cochran Gallery and enter a world of sculpture and exploration.
To purchase a piece
Check the artist profile below for contact information, including Venmo links.
For Venmo transactions, please include the piece name and your phone number or email address in the “For” line, to arrange for pickup after the show is completed.
Create and JP Clay Staff Artists
Jennifer Baldvins
Contact: jenn@
createartincommunity.com
Venmo: @Jennifer-Baldvins
Jennifer Baldvins is a multidisciplinary artist based in Roslindale, Massachusetts. Her practice centers on the beauty of discarded fragments—glass and pottery shards—that have been softened by the tide into anonymous, organic forms. Moving beyond the traditional beachcombing of her childhood, she seeks to create objects that sit between forgotten artifacts and the natural world. With a background in art education and a process-led philosophy, Jennifer allows her materials to dictate their own rhythms, resulting in dynamic, tactile pieces that capture a single moment in a much larger cycle of creation and return.
Angela Caldarone
Contact: angela@
createartincommunity.com
Angela Caldarone is a multimedia artist and instructor, primarily focused in ceramics. She studied sculpture and ceramics at UMass Amherst and received a BFA in 2019. While living in Salem, MA for several years, the history, imagery, and general atmosphere of the city greatly influenced her work. With a great appreciation for the macabre and slightly unsettling, Angela seeks to incorporate these themes with iconography of familiar backyard birds and animals that connect her back to her childhood. Along with this, Angela is exploring texture as a language, analyzing womanhood through web-like sinews carved carefully by hand. You can find her most days teaching kids and adult clay classes at Create, and spending time with her dog on sunny days.
Warwick Laing
Contact: warwickaz@gmail.com
Venmo: @warwicked
Warwick is a multimedia artist and educator based out of Boston, Massachusetts. They earned their Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2023 and are currently attending The Massachusetts College of Art and Design’s Teacher Preparation Program. Their work has been exhibited in shows such as Queering Archives and Another Kind of Time in Kansas City, Missouri as well as El Camino de Material in San Miguel de Allende, México.
While Warwick's interest in the arts is wide-ranging, their work is primarily based in clay, influenced by their art-filled childhood and fond memories of painting with homemade watercolors, sculpting with salt dough, and exploring their mother’s vast art collection in their family home in New Mexico. They create works that represent the human experience, examining clothing, home decor, trinkets, and dishware as it relates to individual expression and family heritage. As an educator, Warwick encourages their students to explore and push boundaries, while treating creativity as a foundational life skill to continue developing through all walks of life.
Gena Mavuli
Contact: gena@jpclay.com
Venmo: @Gena-Mavuli
Gena Mavuli is a Boston artist, writer, instructor and studio owner. The parallels of ceramics' unpredictable transformative process with life itself are what primarily attract her to the medium.
Gena is passionate about utilizing materials- clays, ash, glazes- from local sources so that her artwork is evocative of the material’s origins. She thinks about space, the places her pieces will live, and the empty spaces within a structure.
Extremely community minded, she believes art brings people together. You can visit her living this belief at her Roslindale & JP community studios: www.createartincommunity.com
Katie McColgan
Contact: katiemccolganstudio
@gmail.com
Venmo: @kaitlin-mccolgan
Katie McColgan is an American artist living and working in Massachusetts. She received her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2016 and later completed a Post-Baccalaureate program at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Most recently, she earned her MFA in Arts Practices at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her work has been exhibited nationally and she currently teaches ceramics classes at the Brookline Arts Center.
Vanessa M. Norris
Contact: vanessa@jpclay.com
Vanessa’s lamp is not for sale but please reach out if interested in purchasing other work.
Vanessa (she/her) is a ceramic artist who has been working in clay for over twelve years. She makes colorful cloud & rainbow pottery, marrying pastel colors with voluminous wheel-thrown forms. Vanessa graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Ceramics from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and has held various jobs in the field in the years since—from studio technician to production potter to small business owner (and many things in between)! She is currently the Studio Manager at JP Clay. When she's not working, you can usually find her decorating a mug in her studio, cuddling her cats, or biking along the Charles River on her lavender cruiser. She’s a lover of handmade objects, tattoos, the color purple, cats, and all things clay.
Kristin Powers
Contact: kristin@jpclay.com
Venmo: @Kristin-Powers-21
Kristin Powers is a sculptural installation artist focused on creating spaces while leaving room for reflection. Working with multiple mediums, lens-based media, and sound, Powers explores an ever-evolving iterative landscape, looking for resonant frequencies where many feel.
Powers holds a BFA in Ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design, and an MFA in Sculpture from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has attended residencies at MERZ - Scotland, Vermont Studio Center, Haystack, and Penland. Powers’ recent curatorial projects include Elemental, What Do We Have To Say?, and The Art of Storytelling. Her work has recently been shown at MassArt x SoWa in Boston, The Black Box Gallery in Oregon, and SAGE Gallery in Wyoming.
Amy Saikia Wilson
Contact: amy@jpclay.com
Amy Saikia Wilson is a visual artist based in Boston, Massachusetts, whose work primarily takes the form of sculpture and installation. Concurrent with studies of Jungian psychology, the monomyth, and Gnosticism, her practice is an act of sharing inconclusive narratives with recurring themes of girlhood, human suffering and complex trauma, divine knowledge and spiritual enlightenment, and the rewilding of the human being. The materials Wilson employs are vast and include, but are not limited to, ceramics, papier-mâché, fiber arts, digital and photographic imagery, and found and natural materials. Many of her works exist only through the assemblage and installation of their components, offering a constructed situation that often involves a female protagonist and externalizes inner psychological landscapes.
Wilson has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally, and has served as a Visiting Artist at Montserrat College of Art and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She holds a BFA in Studio Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA in Ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her forthcoming solo show will open in July at PRÁM in Prague, Czech Republic.