Virtual Artist Talk with Asma Waheed

Tune into the Baltimore Clayworks Artist Talk series to learn more about our artists and the work they create!

Ceramic artists are at the heart of Baltimore Clayworks. Artists are at the center of the mission of Baltimore Clayworks, and provide the organization with talent and innovation to inspire our community and to enliven the artistic impact of ceramics in our region. Their professional and personal networks provide a kaleidoscope of interactions with peers, galleries, and academic institutions, which keep the organization at the forefront of contemporary ceramic art.

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation.

Artist’s Bio

Asma Waheed is a Pakistani-born multidisciplinary artist based in Ellicott City, Maryland, where she balances her studio practice with motherhood. Her work explores themes of identity, diaspora, heritage, and self-expression, shaped by her lived experiences and cultural memory. She holds a BA in Education from West Virginia University, an MA in Ceramics from Hood College, and an MFA in Studio Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). A recipient of the Leslie King Hammond Graduate Fellowship, the Windgate University Fellowship at Arrowmont, and the NCECA Graduate Fellowship Award, Asma has exhibited her work nationally. She also serves as Student Director at Large for NCECA.

Asma Waheed’s multidisciplinary practice examines diaspora, motherhood, memory, and belonging through ceramics and material processes. Grounded in domestic forms, her work transforms vessels, tiles, rolling pins, and architectural motifs into sites of cultural and spiritual inquiry. Clay functions as both material and metaphor, recording touch, labor, rupture, and repair. Drawing from Mughal architecture, Islamic geometry, jali screens, and courtyard spaces, Asma explores language loss, inherited traditions, and women’s often-unseen labor. Ceramics intersect with metal, mirror, fabric, and digital fabrication, reflecting the negotiation between ancestral knowledge and contemporary life. Her work considers home as an evolving spiritual condition across diasporic experience.