2021, 5x5x10", Media: Colored porcelain, Porcelain, Firing Process: Electric, Surface: Glazed
2024, 7x7x9", Media: Colored porcelain, Porcelain, Firing Process: Electric, Surface: Pattern, Relief
2022, 6x6x8", Media: Colored porcelain, Porcelain, Firing Process: Electric, Surface: Glazed, Lustre, Pattern, Relief
2020, 3.5x3.5x4, Media: Colored porcelain, Porcelain, Firing Process: Electric, Surface: Glazed, Pattern
2023, 8x8x1", Media: Colored porcelain, Porcelain, Firing Process: Electric, Surface: Glazed, Pattern, Relief
2020, 4.5x4.5x4.5", Media: Colored porcelain, Porcelain, Firing Process: Electric, Surface: Glazed, Pattern, Relief
2023, 5x7x9", Media: Colored porcelain, Porcelain, Firing Process: Electric, Surface: Glazed, Pattern, Relief
2023, 4x4x3", Media: Colored porcelain, Porcelain, Firing Process: Electric, Surface: Glazed, Pattern, Relief
2021, 5x5x8", Media: Colored porcelain, Porcelain, Firing Process: Electric, Surface: Glazed, Pattern, Relief
2024, 2x2x2.5", Media: Colored porcelain, Porcelain, Firing Process: Electric, Surface: Glazed, Pattern, Relief
I handmade this sterling silver spoon to go with the salt dishes.
Artist Statement
Charlotte Grenier is a functional potter. She explores the connection clay vessels have with food, culture, and personal narrative. Her patterned surfaces hold the memories of nostalgic textiles and European stonework, remembered through the hazy lens of childhood.
Charlotte makes utilitarian pottery to join and celebrate the beauty and meditative practices of daily life.
Bio
Charlotte Grenier is a full time utilitarian potter, making wheel thrown and altered pots in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She holds a BA in ceramics from Michigan State University and currently teaches in the greater Ann Arbor area. Charlotte is interested in making stamps that evoke past eras of design and surfaces reminiscent of soft textural tufted furniture. While most of her time is spent in the studio and classroom, Charlotte also enjoys the technical aspects of baking and doting on her studio cats.