HELLO! MY NAME IS HILLARY AND I LOVE CERAMICS.
I was born, raised, and currently create in the wonderfully diverse and active city that is Austin, Texas. I went to art school at Texas State University where the science that is pottery mystified me. Needless to say, I wasn’t much of a ceramic artist then. I could even say I hated it. Something about the technicality of what I understood about the ceramic processes didn’t click with my free-flowing, creative brain. Fast forward several years and I found myself teaching middle school art, but without a personal art practice. This left my heart craving a creative outlet. Having explored 2D mediums many times over the years, clay arose from the depths of my school memories. I was ready to meet the challenge of clay again, so I sought after a studio I could join and learn from.

Fortune brought me to Austin Pottery (atxpottery.com) where I took a class and “POOF!” clay started making sense in the open-minded atmosphere.

I begun to hone my skills and develop my style. One of the amazing instructors I took class from was John Vela, owner of the production pottery studio Sunset Canyon Pottery (sunsetcanyonpottery.com). He offered me a position there after I left the middle school classroom. While working at Sunset Canyon, I had the great privilege of utilizing the studio space to host my own classes and create my own work to sell (#ScraffitoLife Pottery).

I created my own small community of artists who soon grew beyond the production studio’s capacity. I chose the name Rosa, my family name, because it expresses the spirit I hope our new space and blossoming community to represent.

And Rosa Pottery was born!