Camilla Ascher

Pottery

Camilla Ascher is a ceramic artist from Natick who currently resides in Baltimore, MD. She graduated in 2012 with a BFA in Art Education and in 2013 with a Certificate in Ceramics, both from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Camilla has completed artist residencies in Taiwan at Tainan University of the Arts and in Truro, MA at Truro Center for the Arts Castlehill. Camilla is currently the Resident Ceramic Chair at Chesapeake Art Center. Her work consists of functional pottery, and her intention is to create aesthetically satisfying and well-designed utilitarian wares. The intimacy of functional pottery comes from its interactive nature. She loves creating pieces that people can interact with and enjoy. Pattern is an important element to her surface design. She leaves an area of exposed clay; the tactile contrast between surfaces of the textured bare clay and the smooth glazed surface brings an additional layer of sensory awareness of the pot to the user. Her goal is to create an experience of contentment for the user while creating functional objects.