Katherine Pon-Cooper is an ceramic artist living and working in Baltimore, MD, who received her BFA in Ceramics at 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. Pon-Cooper works primarily in functional pottery, using wheel-thrown forms and atmospheric firing to explore her mixed racial identity, family history, and clay as archive. Her work combines Chinese visual motifs with American folk pottery processes, translating her personal biracial Chinese American experience into clay.
