Alexander Kamola

Alexander started making pots over a decade ago to hold plants, flowers, fruit, coffee. Over time the elements that make a traditional pot—the rims, the insides, outsides, thin walls for easy lifting, the fact that you could put things into them—have become his vocabulary; the pots, themselves, his emotional language. Alexander uses traditional coil and slab construction techniques. He does not use the potter’s wheel, as he believes asymmetry and bilateral forms are the stuff of life—perfectly round is for the planets and mathematics. Since 2010 he has continuously audited ceramics classes and made pots at Green River College, Auburn, WA under Paul Metivier. He also has installed and maintained the Vic Rivet Memorial Sculpture Garden at Green River College for the last several years. Recently, he had a solo ceramic sculpture exhibit at Auburn City Hall in the Spring of 2022 and was a first place three dimensional winner at “Arts Explosion” exhibit in Federal Way.

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