Ceramics are Becca’s way of telling about the world. Now in her 13th year as a potter, she savors the way that wild riverbank clay and the inferno of a wood-fired kiln converge on something as domestic and dependable as a coffee mug. The craft is both formal and intimate: the shape of a piece reflecting millennia of tradition, its inner curve ridged by her fingerprints.
For The Love Of is Becca’s fifth gallery show in storytelling collaboration with Leah, and the second in which she’s had the pleasure of working alongside her sister Katie. It brims with first-time partnerships too: Katheryn doing surface design, MaryEllen planting trees at Falcon Creek Farms, family and friends sanding reclaimed wood into shape for shelves. She hopes that this show built by so many hands invites people to dream together, lament together, and work together toward a future we all want to see.
Becca teaches Latin at the Oaks Academy, continually surprised by the consonance between turning clay and a good turn of phrase. This summer she rediscovered the joys of kite-flying at Lake Michigan. She now travels with a kite in her car, awaiting favorable winds.