ABOUT
Bio
Katherine Pon-Cooper is a ceramics artist currently working out of Baltimore, Maryland, who received her BFA in Ceramics from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2025. She was born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, and draws inspiration from the state’s tradition of folk pottery. She was exposed to this local craft community by attending workshops and working as a studio assistant at the Penland School of Craft. Pon-Cooper works primarily in functional pottery, using wheel-thrown forms to explore her mixed racial identity, clay as archive, and the impermanence of human connection. Her current work utilizes canine patterns to examine her experiences with mixed-race fetishization and dehumanization.