Our Next Salon Meeting is announced! Join us May 3rd with Kristina Batiste!
We're the Whidbey Pottery Salon. We love clay.
We are a free, in-person meeting of potters on Whidbey Island. There will be snacks, and coffee. and ugly mugs.
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Welcome!
The Whidbey Pottery Salon is a place for potters to exchange ideas, be inspired, join their community, learn more about Whidbey and Pacific NW art history, hear career retrospectives, and celebrate the joy and craft of clay.
there are are also snacks :-)
Join our mailing list and follow us on instagram to RSVP for our next meeting on May 3rd, 2025
Our Guest Artist for Our Spring Salon
About Kristina Batiiste- Tacoma, WA
Kristina Batiste is a west coast ceramic artist making minimalist conceptual art and functional pottery.
Kristina became an artist later in life; prior to ceramics she worked as a writer and editor, graphic designer, and in higher education, and is currently a part-time librarian. The through line of her career has been a focus on distilling complex ideas into accessible, memorable forms.
Kristina was the 2025 Mudge Fellow at the Groton School, the 2023 recipient of The Current Artist Award presented by the Tacoma Art Museum, and guest artist at the Northern Clay Center's 2023 American Pottery Festival in Minneapolis. She was the subject of a feature article in American Craft, is one of the artists in “Black American Ceramic Artists” (Schiffer 2022), and was a subject in Hulu’s "Your Attention Please" documentary series. Kristina has been written about in Ceramics Monthly, the Seattle Times, the Strategist, and the Craft Industry Alliance, has authored multiple articles in Studio Potter, and is the co-founder of the Tacoma Pottery Salon.